Wellness & Wellbeing News - Hospitality Net

June 20, 2023

INTELITY, FreshBed Announce Live Integration & Partnership

INTELITY®, provider of hospitality’s leading guest experience and staff management platform, has announced a partnership and live integration with FreshBed, the world’s first bed featuring its own full control climate capabilities. An ideal solution for hotels and wellness resorts, this relationship unlocks the ultimate luxury offering by providing guests with the ability to adjust their complete sleep environment directly from a bedside smart room tablet or mobile app powered by the INTELITY platform. Thanks to this partnership, the perfect night’s sleep is just a screen tap away.

INTELITY

Press Release

June 12, 2023

Enhancing Seamless Digital Client Experiences with A New Wellness Platform

Celebrated on June 10, Global Wellness Day highlights the importance of being healthy and living well. As wellness increasingly becomes a priority and daily lifestyle objective for more and more clients, we continue to strengthen our leading offerings in this strategic sector. Our platform spa.accor.com, recently launched in Europe, takes this one step further, enhancing the ALL - Accor Live Limitless digital experience with an online booking platform offering clients a wide range of wellness offers and services. The platform also drives business growth for our hotels, generating exciting opportunities and providing higher visibility for their wellness experiences.

Accor

Press Release

June 8, 2023

Conference Highlights Potential of Health and Wellbeing Tourism

Wellness and health tourism stands ready to offer significant benefits for destinations worldwide – but will need coordination, investments and a skilled workforce to fully deliver on its potential. That was the key takeaway message as leaders from the public and private sectors met for the UNWTO Conference on Education and Skills in Medical and Wellbeing Tourism in Sofia, Bulgaria.

UN Tourism

Press Release

June 6, 2023

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Launches Wellness Music Programme

The Spas at Mandarin Oriental harness the transformative energy of music with a new Wellness Music Programme. Set to debut on Global Wellness Day (10 June 2023) across the Group, the Wellness Music Programme has been carefully curated drawing on regional cultures and philosophy with healing traditions in their music.

Mandarin Oriental

Press Release

May 29, 2023

How social value is influencing location decisions

Proximity to public transport, clients, cafes and restaurants are typical selling points for office owners trying to draw new tenants. But increasingly they are seeking to provide another quality: social value.

JLL

Press Release

May 26, 2023

Miraval Resorts & Spas Launches Miraval Life In Balance Podcast

As a pioneer in destination wellness spa resorts for nearly 30 years, Miraval Resorts & Spas brings its core intention of empowering people to lead their best lives to the podcast space with today’s launch of Miraval Life in Balance. The first podcast from the Miraval brand aims to guide audiences to cultivate wellness, intention and inspiration from anywhere in the world. Host Lauren Scruggs Kennedy, an American lifestyle and clean-living blogger, takes listeners on a virtual journey of insight and mindfulness to Miraval Resorts & Spas, where thought leaders, brand collaborators, and guests share their personal expertise on wellbeing practices and how they foster mindfulness in their everyday lives.

Hyatt

Supplier News

May 24, 2023

Research reveals how germs can spread in hotels – and how to help protect guests this summer travel season

With Memorial Day fast approaching, Americans are starting to think about their much-needed summer vacations, and hotels are gearing up for what could be a very busy travel season. But more guests means greater interaction between people and surfaces, which can elevate the risk of germs spreading throughout the hotel.

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Supplier News

May 17, 2023

[Podcast] The evolutions of traveler wellness and personalization in hospitality

In this episode we speak with Tammy Pahel, Chief Wellness Officer at Alchemy Resorts about the growing impact of wellness on travel, how to use wellness to personalize experiences in the ways travelers want, and how leaders can use wellness strategies to improve the staff experience.

Amadeus Hospitality

Supplier News

May 11, 2023

Agilysys Features Next-Era Spa Software at the 2023 ISPA Conference May 9-11

With demand for spa services outpacing resources available to deliver them, it is increasingly vital for spa operators to optimize how they align staff and service reservations to optimize revenue and profit per time booked.

Agilysys

Opinion Article

May 1, 2023

Why 2023 is the Year of Wellness for Hotels

If you don’t make time for your wellness, then you will be forced to make time for your illness. This catchy phrase underpins the widespread growth of the myriad practices falling within the broad, and quite ambiguous, banner that is wellness.

By Larry Mogelonsky and Adam Mogelonsky

Opinion Article

April 19, 2023

Trends in Hospitality - Wellness and Wellbeing for a Thriving Life

The uncertainty and instability of the past several years have increased the level of stress in employees. In correlation to this, the health and wellness tourism market is growing. Indeed, the Global Wellness Institute expects that wellness tourism expenditures will likely hit $1.3 trillion by 2025.

By Lionel Saul and Tatyana Tsukanova

Opinion Article

April 17, 2023

Going Long for Hotel Longevity Part X: Boomers to Soon Boom

In this ongoing column on the growth of wellness as a profit center for hotels, one concurrent trends to be cognizant of is the aging of the baby boomer generation – ostensibly the wealthiest to date that is, at present, entering the prime travel years of early retirement. This generational shift intersects with the longevity revolution in many interesting ways that hotels can capitalize upon.

By Larry Mogelonsky and Adam Mogelonsky

Press Release

April 11, 2023

Miraval Resorts & Spas Supports Mental Wellbeing, Inclusivity and Mindfulness Through 2023 Collaborations

Supporting its core brand pillar of creating a life in balance through mindfulness, Miraval Resorts & Spas, an original thought leader in wellbeing, today announced details of its 2023 brand collaborations. With emphasis on mental wellbeing, mindfulness and inclusivity in travel and hospitality, 2023 highlights include continued collaboration with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the introduction of a new collaborative relationship with Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble, founder of BIPOC mental health nonprofit The AAKOMA Project. Promoting workplace-wellness and self-care culture among colleagues, these thoughtfully selected brand collaborations bring a heightened focus on profoundly and positively impacting colleagues' wellbeing, empowering them to be even better equipped to provide exceptional service to Miraval guests.

Hyatt

United States

Opinion Article

April 5, 2023

Hospitality and Lodging can Offer Improved Hospitality Services for Travelers with a Telemedicine App and gain a Market Competitive Advantage

The benefits of a medical services located within a resort or hotel property are well founded. With an aging society and with travel and tourism set to increase post COVID-19, partnering with an onsite medical clinic franchise could strongly benefit a hotel. Now, a new medical App promoted by lodging properties, allows a domestic or international traveler with preexisting medical conditions, or with young children traveling to have increased confidence and ease of mind when traveling.

By Fred DeMicco and Adel Eldin

Opinion Article

March 30, 2023

Main Trends for Wellness Businesses in 2023

The wellness industry is diverse, dynamic – and, therefore, complex.

By Gonçalo Santos, Director Solutions Management, TNG Leisure & Activities, HRS Hospitality & Retail Systems

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Opinion Article

March 22, 2023

Hotel Managers: New Career Opportunities in Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H)

As more health care facilities grow to become “medical campuses” and medical meccas for care, they emulate hotels in their quality and delivery of health and wellness (H2H) services. Many build hotels or have partner hotels for medical guests and tourists on their health campuses. An innovative approach for blending hospitality and health care can be found in Orlando, where the RosenCare model could boost lodging revenue by using medical travel to the United States. In fact, in medical centers and hospitals, after the procedure (surgery or other treatment), approximately 75% of the services provided to patients are hospitality/hotel-related services (H2H) including dining, environmental, transportation, front desk, educational, and entertainment services.

By Fred DeMicco and Jackie Guzman

Opinion Article

March 20, 2023

Farm to Wellness Retreats as an Evolution for Wellness and Hotel Distribution

Entering yet another unprecedented travel period with a looming recession and the sputtering end of the post-pandemic travel recovery, there are nevertheless a myriad of trends that are strongly converging to offer hotels a path to profitability no matter the economic climate. In this case, we are talking about the growth in demand for wellness products as well as the emergence of newer search platforms to cut through the exhaustion of digital noise in the travel space.

By Larry Mogelonsky and Adam Mogelonsky

Opinion Article

March 9, 2023

Tapping into the Power of Micro-Experiences to Build Bonds with Customers and Staff

The world is full of experiences, big and small. In travel, there’s a lot of focus on the peak experiences like that instagrammable moment at the top of Mt. Everest. But micro-experiences may be more important, not only for our health and well-being, but for our humanity too. Plus, it can supercharge customer loyalty with brands.

By Susie Arnett, Director of Wellness Programming, Six Senses

Opinion Article

March 7, 2023

Marketing Spa Stays to Digital Nomads

Although many companies are asking teams to return to the workplace, the digital nomad market continues to see strong growth.

By Susie Arnett, Director of Wellness Programming, Six Senses

Press Release

February 24, 2023

Executive Women in Travel Come Together to Share Tools on Financial & Personal Wellbeing; Mentoring, Entrepreneurship & Tips For Attaining Leadership Roles in One of the World’s Most Dynamic Industries

With global tourism predicted to reach 80% to 95% of pre-pandemic levels in 2023, registrations and the speaker roster for March 2 & 3, Women in Travel & Hospitality (TIEWN) Conference at the Westlake Village Inn in Los Angeles County both reflect that vibrancy.

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