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Sea change for spa travel in 2013, says report
Seventy-three per cent of US travel agents reported a growth in spa prop- erty bookings last year, according to the latest State of Spa Travel report by Spafi nder Wellness 365. The growth, which marks a turna- round for the industry, was partly due to resorts’ increasingly aggressive price packages. Women travelling together were the biggest group, highlighting how female bonding is critical to the spa sector. Agents also predicted that generation X will soon usurp baby boomers as the main spa travelling demographic. The survey was based more than 300 North American travel agents and was completed in Q4 of 2013. Read more:
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The opening of the spa hotel has been pushed back from early 2014 to 2017 €70m spa hotel in Finland stalled by legal dispute
Construction has yet to begin on a €70m (US$96m, £58m) spa hotel in
Lappeenranta, eastern Finland, due to a string of legal disputes. The development was initially planned to open in early 2014. The scheme is a joint venture between
The spa is in a stand-alone building
Blackberry Farm set to launch Wellhouse spa
Blackberry Farm, a 62-bed chateau in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, US will unveil a new well- ness centre on 1 June.
The 12,663sq ft (1,176sq m)
Wellhouse, situated in a stand- alone building, has been designed by the Farm’s founder and direc- tor of design Kreis Beall, along with Johnson Architecture. The purpose- built facility took 12 months to construct and boasts nine treatment rooms. Product houses include Naturopathica and Lucrece. Spa director Amanda Anderson
has previously worked for Red Door Spas, Ritz-Carlton and Golden Door. Read more:
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Italy’s Happy Sauna Group managed the project 20 Read Spa Business online
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two Finnish property investment compa- nies – Ultivista and Conte Invest. The CEO of Ultivista, Sami Alatalo, told Spa Business the legal proceedings mean the project will open by 2017 at the earliest if the court rules in its favour. Two complaints were made by members of the public about the building plans and the price the land was sold at, according
to Finnish media, but both were rejected by the Hallinto-oikeus administrative court. Another complaint was submitted to the Korkein Hallinto-oikeus supreme admin- istrative court in late. Final rulings are expected by mid 2014. The Huhtiniemi development consists of three interconnected parts. These include a 14-storey hotel, a 4,000sq m (43,056sq ft) spa and a 7,000sq m (75,347sq ft) space for spa villas.
The project will have a total of 500 bed- rooms: 350 will be in the hotel, while the other 150 will be in the spa villas. Read more:
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Italian job for Moscow’s Golden Mile wellness centre
‘Made in Italy’ is the theme a 4,500sq m (48,438sq ft) spa that’s just opened in Moscow’s Park Palace luxury estate. The Golden Mile wellness centre was project managed by Italy’s Happy Sauna Group, which enlisted compatriot architects Studio D73 for the design. The spa has 15 treatment rooms, a beauty studio and a 900sq m (9,688sq ft) fi tness area. A wet zone includes a large pool, two whirlpools, a sauna, a steam- room, a Kneipp path and a snow cabin. Read more:
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