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SARAH TODD guillemotright.cap NEWS EDITOR guillemotright.cap SPA BUSINESS Missoni’s
hotel and spa
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ith ever-increasing Luxury Italian collaboration Hotel Missoni
choices for spa fashion house Kuwait will open in
time before you Missoni is to con- early two.fittedzero.fittedone.fittedzero.fitted and fea-
f_l y, one American brand – one.fittedzero.fitted tinue its expansion into ture signature Missoni
Minute Manicure – is to the hospitality sector with zigzag print and furnishings,
extend its reach away from the launch of a second Hotel as well as the one.fittedsix.fitted,four.fittedfive.fittedsq f_t
the airport and into towns Missoni in the Middle East, (one.fitted,five.fittedzero.fittedzero.fittedsq m) spa by the Asia-
and cities across the US. with a spa by Six Senses. based Six Senses group.
As a result high street T_h e inaugural Hotel T_h e spa will be located ad-
clients can now take Flexi-time Missoni opened recently in jacent to the hotel pool, which
advantage of the no- for spa Edinburgh, Scotland, while will be tiled in the signature
appointment-necessary treatments First opened in January a further four properties are Missoni stripe, and will boast
policy usually only available two.fittedzero.fittedzero.fittedsix.fitted at Cincinnati Airport, being planned for Kuwait, views over the Arabian Sea.
to airport customers. there are currently one.fittedzero.fitted airport- Cape Town, Brazil and Oman. Following the launch of
T_h e model for the company based one.fittedzero.fitted Minute Manicure sites. Each hotel – in collabora- the f_i rst f_i ve hotels, there are
changed as a direct result of the eco- T_h e franchise model will be available tion with the Brussels-based plans to grow the Hotel Mis-
nomic downturn, combined with the for sites in urban and suburban mar- Rezidor Hotel Group – will be soni portfolio to see at least one.fittedzero.fitted
diminishing amount of renovation kets across the US. explore further... created to be ref_l ective of its hotels open or under develop-
work going on in US airports.
one.fittedzero.fittedminutemanicure.com location. T_h e interior design is ment around the world within
being overseen by one of the the next one.fittedzero.fitted years.
original founders of Missoni, explore further...
Food chemistry
Rosita Missoni.
hotelmissoni.com rezidor.com
Eating fruits and vegetables
may help the human body
Nelson Mandela, South African statesman,
make its own aspirin.
Findings from research
winner of the one.fittednine.fittednine.fittedthree.fitted Nobel Prize for Peace
published in the Journal “I learned that courage was not the
of Agriculture and Food
absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Chemistry indicated that
T_h e brave man is not he who does not
study participants who
feel afraid, but he who conquers fear.”
received benzoic acid, a
natural substance in fruits and explore further...
vegetables, could make their own salicylic acid, the key ingredient that gives aspirin
nelsonmandela.org nobelprize.org
its pain-relieving properties. explore further...
http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jafcau
Since the smoking ban was intro- around the launch of spa treatment
duced in England and Wales in July PUBS, BARS rooms at the group’s T_h e Lambert
two.fittedzero.fittedzero.fittedseven.fitted, the hospitality trade, and AND SPAS Arms property in the Chiltern Hills,
in particular bars and pubs, have near Oxford, there’s an extensive
created ever more ingenious ways range of spa treatments of_f ered as part
to market their trade and boost their of an overnight spa break in the pub.
business. T_h e UK-based Merchant Inns pub T_h erapies use the French Ella Baché profes-
company is one example of this. sional skincare range, which has recently
Merchant Inns has created a new spa-based relaunched in the UK.
concept called Pint-Sized Pampering. Based explore further...
lambertarms.com
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