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UK spa unveils ambitious £25m expansion plans for beachfront


St Michael’s Hotel and Spa in Cornwall, UK, has revealed £25m (US$41.9m, €30.9m) plans to expand its facility into a progres- sive complex featuring new wellness and health offerings, hotel suites, restaurants, plus apartments and woodland eco lodges. Te project would see the current hotel


and spa become part of a larger facility using the site of the former Falmouth Beach hotel, which suffered fire damage in 2012. Using designs created by Cornish archi-


tects Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole, the site is planned to be an iconic beachfront development resembling an ocean liner. Te St Michael’s Spa & Wellness Resort


would encompass a new destination spa featuring seven treatment rooms, a spa gar- den with outdoor Finnish sauna, a beauty salon, a swimming pool with extensive relaxation areas and a new conservatory. Details: http://lei.sr?a=q8F6B


DAILY NEWS, JOBS, TRAINING & TENDERS www.spaopportunities.com Hyatt Andaz hotel towers over Tokyo


Hyatt has announced the official opening of the Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills hotel, boasting vertiginous views over Japan’s capital from the top six floors of the 52-storey Toranomon Hills tower. Te twelſth hotel to join the


Andaz brand was developed as part of an urban engineer- ing project integrating central Tokyo with the bay area, in works that will later link to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Village. The hotel has teamed up


with the AO Spa & Club – which occupies the 37th floor of the tower – to offer guests a range of well- ness facilities. Te 1,350sq m (14,350sq ſt) spa and fitness centre overlooks the Imperial Palace grounds and features a 65 ſt (20m) swimming pool, a unique carbonated bath, floating jet bath and a fully-equipped fitness suite facil- ity in addition to five spa treatment rooms. AO Spa offers a tailor-made treatment


approach called “Jiyujizai,” a Japanese term meaning “your creation.” Products are chosen to reflect the indigenous botanicals of Mount Fuji and surrounding areas, featuring a wide


Te affiliated AO Spa & Club features traditional Japanese decor


variety of fresh fruit, fresh and dry herbs and natural minerals such as salt and clay. Te spa is also introducing an immediate results-ori- entated European skincare line called Natura Bisse, to suit demanding Tokyo lifestyles. The Andaz hotel itself contains 164


guestrooms, including eight suites spread throughout floors 47 to 50. Floor 51 will host the Andaz dining facilities, with 5m (16ft) floor-to-ceiling windows providing a pan- oramic perspective of the Japanese capital. Details: http://lei.sr?a=5S6g3


Mayo Clinic joins Apple for HealthKit platform Te new site will have a Mandarin Oriental Spa


Mandarin Oriental prepares for new location in Manila


Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group plans to replace its existing property in Makati City, the Philippines, with a new hotel in a mixed-use development set for 2020. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has


signed a long-term management contract with developer and owner Ayalaland Hotel & Resorts to brand and manage the new luxury hotel, set to include 275-bedrooms. At the same time, Mandarin Oriental


announced the closure of the existing Mandarin Oriental Manila on Makati Avenue, scheduled for later this year. “Mandarin Oriental, Manila has been


recognised as one of the city’s most iconic hotels since its opening in 1976 and the Group wishes to express its sin- cere appreciation to all colleagues for their legendary service and sup- port over the years,” said Torsten van Dullemen, general manager of the hotel. Details: http://lei.sr?a=N7u9Y


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After much speculation, Apple has confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, California that it plans to soon launch a native health tracking platform. The tracker – dubbed


HealthKit – comes with a user-facing app simply called “Health,” and will feature a number of high-profile col- laborations that Apple hopes will break new ground in the fledgling mobile health apps and fitness trackers sector. Te tech giant is working


Apple’s HealthKit is on the way, but the “iWatch” remains elusive


with renowned US health provider Mayo Clinic to integrate medical information via the new platform, which will be part of its new operat- ing system iOS 8 for both iPhones and iPads. Apple will also consolidate heart rate, blood


pressure, weight and more from apps and devices, including from collaborator Nike. “Developers have created a vast array of


healthcare devices and accompanying appli- cations, everything from monitoring your


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activity level, to your heart rate, to your weight, as well as chronic medical conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.” Apple senior vice president of Soſtware Engineering Craig Federighi said at the recent event. Despite the announcements, there was no


news on whether the long-awaited “iWatch” will soon be coming to market, with rival Samsung having stolen a march through its Gear 2 smart- watch. Details: http://lei.sr?a=N5h2E


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