A day at the spa provides many people with feelings of both anticipation and relaxation. These businesses offer excellent opportunities for people to come and experience the rejuvenation that comes with treatments such as massages, facials, body wraps, or hydrotherapy.
For wellness to deliver valuable returns in a project, investors must be "pioneering" and rigorous in their approach, according to the updated Resources for Leisure Assets (RLA) Wellness Real Estate Report.
The concepts of wellness and medical tourism are becoming increasingly interwoven, with each industry incorporating aspects from one another. Wellness resorts, renowned for their holistic offering, are now incorporating diagnostics and advanced results-driven treatments as a part of their service platform. Meanwhile, medically-focused destinations are seeking to extend their offering by including various wellness services.
This September, global hospitality leader Accor is launching comprehensive in-room restorative wellness programming at select North and Central America properties through an exclusive partnership with wellness technology company Three Sages. The partnership gives Fairmont, Sofitel and Swissôtel guests the opportunity to unwind and reset through complimentary yoga, stretching, breath-work, mindfulness and sleep practices, all available on the in-room entertainment system, from the comfort of their hotel room. Focusing on restorative content, the initiative highlights mindful movement to make guests feel less stressed, more relaxed and at ease while traveling.
While the world has been on hold, daily life has been disrupted and people in every corner of the globe have experienced some level of stress and uncertainty. In fact, our recent research conducted across five countries shows that 43%* of travelers have felt worried about the impact of coronavirus on their day-to-day life. Luckily, that same piece of research also reveals that when thinking about the prospect of traveling again, 28%* of travelers feel optimistic and 27%* feel excited. Also of note is that for a majority (55%*) of travelers, the primary motivation to travel again is to rest and relax.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation today announced a new collaboration between Hyatt's Exhale brand and Amazon Halo, a health and wellness membership that uses technology to provide personal wellness insights and offers ways to improve users' everyday health. Powered by a mobile app and accompanying wristband, the newly launched Amazon Halo service combines science-backed tools and Exhale's streaming video platform, Exhale On Demand, to help users build healthier habits for life. Available for early access now, the Amazon Halo service gives users and Exhale members greater accessibility to Exhale On Demand's fitness programs.
Two public relations and branding powerhouses in the fields of wellness, spa, lifestyle and hospitality, Kim Marshall and Darlene Fiske, joined forces in June 2018 to create a communications firm specializing in the $4.5 trillion global wellness economy. Just two short years later, PRNews has awarded them a place on their prestigious list of Top 100 Elite Agencies in America for 2020. With offices in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California, their PR reach is global in scope and their 40+ years of combined expertise in the field is unmatched.
The latest report by Horwath HTL Health and Wellness provides key guidelines to successfully design wellness resorts.
Healing Hotels of the World will host a 45-minute master class to explore the role of healing in hospitality, and why consumers are seeking transformation today more than ever. Hosted by celebrated New York radio personality Valerie Smaldone, the session will feature expert insight from Healing Hotels Co-Founder Anne Biging along with Claudia Roth, Founder and Managing Director of Soul Luxury and Co-Founder of the Healing Summit.
As the hotel industry contends with the immediate challenges posed by the Coronavirus crisis, for some hoteliers this also represents an opportunity to take a longer-term view of their businesses. Hospitality Net™, which launched the Hospitality Net World Panel last year to highlight the opinions of leading hoteliers on industry trends, is now launching another panel, this time on wellness, lifestyle and spas.
Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina and Sensync, the immersive wellness company founded by Dr. Adam Gazzaley and Dr. Alex Theory, have partnered to introduce The Vessel - a luxury virtual experience that combines mixed reality innovation with advanced therapeutic technology to create a revolutionary, immersive sensory experience.
A Hilton wellness program that aims to shake up the spa industry recently scored a big award, and in recognition of it, two wellness gurus sat down to discuss the curation of the program, its impact on the industry and the future of spas and wellness overall.
NASHVILLE, TN/UNITED STATES — JW Marriott Nashville is pleased to announce a new collaboration with tune, a revolutionary bio-tuning company that taps into the science of sound, frequencies, and vibration to optimize overall health and well-being. This first-to-market collaboration with the JW Marriott brand and one of its newest hotels, JW Marriott Nashville, furthers the property's dedication to well-being by providing an oasis for guests and visitors to experience in Nashville's first tune studio. The JW Marriott Nashville tune studio is the first of many set to roll out across multiple JW Marriott properties throughout the world as a part of the brand's larger focus around mindfulness.
PARIS, - SO/ Hotels & Resorts, an exclusive lifestyle brand from Accor that features fashionable hotels exhibiting a distinctively rebellious interpretation of luxury, is pleased to announce a vibrant new wellness program designed for its adventurous and stylish guests and socializers. The new SO/ Wellness Experience is now available at SO/ Vienna, one of the brand's most avant-garde properties, where the program concepts are being piloted in advance of a future global roll-out.
The Fiske Group, an Austin-based award-winning national public relations firm specializing in luxury hotels, resorts, spas and luxe lifestyle brands is proud to announce that all four of their hotel and resort clients have secured either the #1 or #2 position in their respective categories on prestigious awards lists for 2019. Just announced, Lake Austin Spa Resort, La Cantera Resort & Spa, The Beach Club at Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina have earned high marks on Conde Nast Traveler's 2019 Readers' Choice Awards and earlier this year, Hotel Eleven was named #2 hotel in the US on Travel + Leisure's 2019 World's Best Awards.
We are living in the age of information accessibility, in a time when booking a flight is as simple as click, click, click. We are engulfed by products and services, seemingly offered up on a platter. Businesses are tailoring their offerings to our individual needs, stepping up their game by anticipating our desires. For those who can afford it, it is an era of abundance, of limitless opportunities. Shush any environmental qualms and the world is your oyster.
Anyone who's treated themselves to a wellness break by the sea knows all the benefits it brings, both during and after! A restful look, glowing complexion and a more toned body… A feeling of revitalization you can now take away with you thanks to Thalassa Sea & Spa. How? Through the marine skincare and haircare products of its new Thalassa Sea & Skin cosmetic range.
This September, JW Marriott will host Gather by JW, the second annual food & wine festival at JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa on the Venetian archipelago of Isola delle Rose. In collaboration with FOOD & WINE Magazine, the festival will take over the hotel and island from September 26 - 29 for three days of unrivaled food, wine, and well-being experiences led by a star-studded roster of chefs alongside the world's leading mindfulness experts and practitioners.
Travel provides a much-needed break from everyday life to discover new places and cultures, meet new people and see the world from a different perspective. Along the way, travel can also take a heavy toll on physical health and well-being. Energy-draining jet lag disrupts sleep. Disciplined eating habits suffer. Exercise routines get interrupted.
Prestigious German hotel brand and long-standing private label partner of HotelREZ, Dorint Hotels & Resorts, has undergone it's most extensive renovation of the Dorint Hotel Maison Messmer in Baden-Baden since its reopening in 2001. The five-star hotel has a total of 141 rooms, 10 suites as well as a penthouse which spans 240 square metres and includes an impressive roof terrace overlooking the traditional spa town of Baden-Baden in the Black Forest.