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Daily news, Jobs, Training & TenDers www.spaopportunities.com Mövenpick attains ‘green’ status


Swiss hospitality group Mövenpick has announced that all of its 21 hotels in Europe have now achieved Green Globe certification. Te move is part of the lux-


Te venture is the brainchild of Pete Ellis


SpaFinder CEO launches wellness incubator WellTech


Pete Ellis, chair and CEO of SpaFinder, has launched WellTech, a new health and wellness-focused ‘incubator’ designed to support, develop and bring new technology companies to market. Selected firms using technology to devise new consumer wellness solutions will receive a minimum invest- ment of US$50,000 (€38,000, £31,000) plus office space, mentoring and marketing sup- port. WellTech will focus on accelerating companies with existing revenues and con- sumer traffic, but will also consider concepts “in an embryonic stage”. It is already working with FITiST, which


reinvented the traditional gym membership by providing members with one-stop access to the best of boutique studios and Wizpert – which offers real-time conversations with ‘wizperts’ on a range of wellness topics. WellTech was launched to harness the


US$2tn (€1.5tn, £1.3tn) global wellness market, which Ellis believes is in line for “explosive growth”. He has already had success in bringing GramercyOne and SpaRahRah to market. Details: www.welltechfunding.com


Shanti Maurice to open Pop Up Kids Spa during Easter


Shanti Maurice, a Nira Hotels and Resorts- operated property in Mauritius, is to open a outdoor Pop Up Spa for younger guests throughout the Easter holidays. Te spa is being presented on behalf of


Shanti Maurice’s kids club, Les Petits Dodos, and will give guests aged between five- and 15-years-old a taste of the resort’s Nira Spa. Treatments on offer at the cabana-style Pop


Up Spa will use 100 per cent natural prod- ucts, with everything used on children’s skin also designed to be “completely edible”. Te move fits in with the emergence of


spas becoming “a family affair”, as identi- fied among the top 10 spa trends for 2012 by SpaFinder. To read about SpaFinder’s trends, see: http://lei.sr?a=F2b3C


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ury hotel group’s strategy to invest heavily into environ- mentally friendly practices as it plans to become one of the most sustainable hospitality companies in the world. To assist it with finding sus-


tainable models, Mövenpick has adopted the Strategic Sustainable Development framework, a scien- tific model devised by Sweden-based Natural Step aimed at helping businesses to better understand and integrate sustainability in its strategy and operations. Ola Ivarsson, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts’


Achieving the certification is part of Mövenpick’s sustainability strategy


and in the process enjoyed very positive feed- back and engagement from our employees.” Along with the certification process


chief operating officer for Europe, said: “We’ve been very committed to achieving Green Globe certification across all our properties in Europe


Mövenpick aimed to encourage all employees to learn more about sustainability issues and use that knowledge at work and home. To achieve this, the company developed


its own bespoke e-learning tool kit that all employees could access online.


Wahanda signs deal with lastminute.com


Online health and beauty marketplace Wahanda has secured a partnership agree- ment with deal website lastminute.com UK to man- age the portal’s spa category. From June 2012, Wahanda


will operate a new bespoke, lastminute.com-branded spa platform including full search and filter capabilities, as well as expanded inventory and exclusive deals on spa days, breaks and pampering. Te new platform will also


Lopo Champalimaud: “We can deliver even greater volume of customers”


allow Wahanda suppliers to benefit from a single integrated offering to seamlessly promote their business on both Wahanda and lastminute.com. Wahanda CEO Lopo Champalimaud, said:


“Lastminute.com is one of the UK’s leading internet brands and together we can give our


merchants and suppliers access to the biggest audience of health and beauty consumers. “Tis means we can deliver even greater vol-


ume of customers for our suppliers with no additional workload on their part, as it will be managed across the same technical platform.”


IHG launches new London training academy


InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has unveiled its newest Hospitality Training Academy in London, UK, offering a programme developed alongside Newham College. Students will have the opportunity to benefit from relevant industry training and practical


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work experience at hotels across the group’s brands at the IHG Academy. The six-month course will combine the


Hospitality Skills Diploma with four weeks of work experience, which will lead to the award of a Hospitality Level 2 Diploma.


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