spa opportunities Find great staff 17 June – 30 June 2011 ISSUE 114 Daily news & jobs:
www.spaopportunities.com Six Senses contract is terminated Tom walker
Six Senses has confirmed that its management agreement for the Six Senses Sanctuary resort in Phuket, Tailand will terminate on 31 July 2011. Te resort, on the island of
Naka Yai in Phuket, is owned by Thai property company Erawan, which has 13 three to five-star hotel and resort prop- erties in South-East Asia. A spokesperson for Six
Senses, told Spa Opportunities: “Six Senses Resorts & Spas and the owner of Six Senses Sanctuary in Phuket have ended the management agree- ment relating to Six Senses Sanctuary.“ Te resort will close for redevelopment work
Te resort will close for a two-month redevelopment on 1 August
and refurbishment on 1 August and will reopen on 30 September with a new operating com- pany which is yet to be announced. Erawan has strong relationships with US-based hotel giant Marriott and French hotel
Minnie Mouse spa plans
for Disneyland hotel Tom walker
A Minnie Mouse-themed spa is among the new facilities unveiled at Disneyland Resort’s Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, US. Te spa will be joined by a Mickey
Mouse-themed facility in late 2011 located close to the hotel’s pool. New dining locations will also be
developed as part of the upgrade, which forms part of a two-year trans- formation of the Disneyland Hotel. For children, the revitalised pool
area incorporates the Monorail Slide Pool with two waterslides.
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group Accor. All its other hotels and resorts are operated by these two groups. The change leaves Six Senses with three
Soneva resorts, four Evason properties and seven Six Senses resorts, along with 20 other city, hotel, airport and on-board spas and resorts in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
RAK acquires Banyan Tree resort
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Ras Al Khaimah Hotels and Tourism Development Authority (RAKTD), part of the Ras Al Khaimah government, has acquired Banyan Tree Al Wadi, one of the first desert resorts in the United Arab Emirates. Te purchase, from Rakeen Development,
is central to the government’s 10-year tour- ism development strategy and forms part of RAKTD’s action plan to invest millions of dol- lars into hotels and tourism schemes in a bid to quadruple visitor numbers to the state. Facilities at Banyan Tree Al Wadi, which
is located in Wadi Khadeja, include a 3,960sq m (42,625sq ſt) Asian-inspired spa with
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Te Al Wadi desert resort first opened in April 2010
10 treatment pavilions, a hammam and hydro- therapy facilities including a vitality pool. Also on offer is an activity centre; a kids’
club; Al Hamra Golf Club; a falconry mews; and horse and camel stables, along with a pri- vate beach club and meeting space.
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Te hotel will be housed in a former convent
2012 launch for Orient- Express’ Peruvian hotel
Tom walker
Orient-Express Hotels has announced that Palacio Nazarenas – a 55-suite hotel housed in a former palace and convent in Cuzco, Peru – is to open its doors in early summer 2012. Facilities at Palacio Nazarenas will com-
prise a full-service spa boasting four single treatment rooms and a double treatment room with private hot tub. Treatments are inspired by Inca and Andean cultures and use indigenous Peruvian ingredients.
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