spa New spa for Cheshire golf club Tom Walker


The independently-owned Mere Golf and Country Club near Knutsford in Cheshire has launched a £4m day spa as part of a £15m rebrand. Te club will be rebranded


as simply Te Mere and will be marketed as Cheshire’s first five-star golf and spa resort. Te Spa at Te Mere will


incorporate seven treatment rooms, an indoor pool, ham- mam, rasul, a hydrotherapy area, an aroma steamroom, a caldarium and a salt infu- sion room. Facilities will also include a health and fitness club and an aero- bics studio. Holistic treatments will be supplied by Carita and Aromatherapy Associates and packages include facials, massages, body wraps, hot stones, mud treatments and pedicures. Te spa has been designed by Chris Mather with Alistair Johnson of Spa Creators working


Business is recovering at top hotels and resorts


Spending up at luxury end of travel sector


Tom Walker A new £4m day spa has launched at Te Mere as part of a £15m overhaul


as a consultant on the development. Marketing agency Wodehouse Direct has been appointed to help with the rebrand. Te opening of the spa is part of a larger,


£15m redevelopment of the Mere estate, which will include the launch of a new five-star lux- ury hotel and three new restaurants.


Pure Health spa launches in St Neots Tom Walker


Huntingdonshire District Council has launched a luxury day spa at the St Neots leisure centre in Cambridgeshire. Te Pure Health-branded


spa, which cost £0.6m to build and was part of a larger £2.9m redevelopment of the centre, boasts four heat treatment rooms installed by Schletterer; experience showers; salt and citrus steam baths; a herbal sauna; ice fountain and mosaic heated recliners. Spa treatments are sup-


Global spending in five-star hotels rose by an average of 14 per cent during the year to October 2010 when compared to 2009. Te figures from American Express Business Insights suggest that confidence has returned to wealthy consumers. Sujata Bhatia, vice president of Business


Insights at American Express, said increased consumer confidence among wealthy travellers is a positive signal that economic conditions are improving. “While we’ve not returned to pre-reces-


sion levels, the strong growth in spending in five-star hotels indicates that more afflu- ent consumers and business travellers are regaining confidence,” she said.


advisory forum set up to measure Uk’s wellbeing


Tom Walker


A group of 40 people from across a number of backgrounds in business, academia, gov- ernment and the voluntary sector have been draſted in by the Office for the National Statistics (ONS) in order to help measure the nation’s wellbeing. Te National Statistician, Jil Matheson


Treatments at the Pure Health-branded venue are supplied by Decléor


plied by Decléor and include facials, body envelopments and firming, mas- sages, waxing, nail care and tanning. Heinz Schletterer said: “Today’s guests call


for high quality standards and are extremely health-conscious.”


Te St Neots leisure centre and the Pure


Health spa will be operated by the council’s leisure division, One Leisure. Facilities also include a 120-station Impressions-branded fit- ness club equipped by Technogym.


Wahanda launches real time spa bookings Tom Walker


Online spa booking company Wahanda is to launch a new product, allowing spas to post real time availabilities for customers looking to book last minute spa breaks and holidays. Te real time concept has been launched to offer


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has convened the Measuring National Wellbeing Forum to engage directly in the debate with key stakeholders, including policy makers, analysts, business leaders and academics in the UK and abroad. Te forum’s role will be to discuss the


main themes emerging from the national debate which concludes in April and pro- vide advice on how to deliver credible measures of subjective well-being, and of wider national well-being, to meet policy and public needs. Matheson, who chairs the Measuring


spa operators instant confirmation on forward bookings and to offer the opportunity to add new offers at any time. Spas using the new product will also be


able to showcase a ‘live’ calendar application, displaying available dates and prices.


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National Wellbeing Forum, said: “Trough the Measuring National Wellbeing Programme, ONS is leading a debate in the UK about how best to provide a pic- ture of ‘how society is doing’, that doesn’t simply rely on economic data.


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