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July 2005, Volume
1
July 11, 2005
SpaWire:
Connecting you to the Spa, Salon, and Wellness Industry
The latest Spa
and Salon Industry News
SpaWire(tm)
is a complimentary spa and salon news digest brought to you by Spa Index
Media, LLC, and our sponsors:
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complimentary news digest with weekly news stories, announcements, press
releases, convention events, trends, and spotlights, and resources for
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Spa Index Media,
LLC announces View-and-Print Special Offers on Spa Flyer
Consumers print
their own coupons for spa and salon services and spa travel
(PRWEB) June 7,
2005 -- Spa Index Media, LLC, publisher of three popular spa industry
websites, has created "view and print special offers" especially for its spa
enthusiast readers on Spa Flyer: A Blog for Spa Enthusiasts.
Spa Flyer Blog users have
instant access on their home pages, including "My Yahoo", "My MSN" and
others, to daily and weekly time-sensitive spa vacation specials, health spa
deals, spa contests and sweepstakes, spa product spotlights, spa resort grand
openings, and more.
Now, blog visitors may view
and print special offers ranging from $10.00 off spa services for first-time
guests to $400.00 off a week-long spa getaway in New Orleans, courtesy of Spa
Index Media and its family of spa members.
Spa Index Media permits
spas and salons to authorize a special offer without cost. The special offers
must have a minimum $10.00 value. Special offers in the form of print-ready
coupons are created, hosted, and marketed by Spa Index Media, at no charge to
participating facilities. In addition, no commissions, booking fees, or
special processing is required by the donating spa facility. There is a time
limit, however. Spa, Salon, and Wellness Facilities who choose to authorize
special offers for Spa Index and Spa Flyer readers, must do so before
December 31, 2005, at which time the promotion will be restricted to listed
spa members, only.
2005 Calendar
Events for the Spa Industry
The following
evens are coming up soon ... mark your calendars. Additional events scheduled
throughout the entire calendar year are not listed here, and may be read on
our website.
July 24 - 26, 2005:
Cosmoprof North America
Presented by North American Beauty Events,
Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV United States.
Cosmoprof
North America is the most comprehensive and international professional beauty
industry show on the continent. From manufacturers to distributors, salon
owners to spa professionals, importers to hairstylists, more than 20,000
industry professionals visited Cosmoprof North America 2004's five pavilions:
· Looks Mainstage & Expo · Wellness & Spa · Packaging, Contract Manufacturing
& Private Labels · Professional Hair, Nail & Tools · Cosmetics & Personal
Care Cosmoprof North America brings together the entire professional beauty
industry for a long weekend in Las Vegas that included the
business-to-business development of Cosmoprof North America, the artistry of
the Looks mainstage, the glamour of the North American Hairstyling Awards and
the value of extraordinary complimentary education.
August 13 - 16, 2005:
EX·TRACTS® at the New York International Gift Fair® - 2005.
EX·TRACTS®
Essentials for personal care and wellness will run concurrently with the New
York International Gift Fair. As such, we are delighted to offer you the
opportunity to exhibit during the New York market, both summer and winter.
This is your opportunity to see thousands of specialty stores, gift shops,
department stores, importers, e-tailers, distributors, reps, mail order
catalogs, museums, galleries, stationery stores, plus spas, health resorts,
hotels, motels, inns and private label developers that have consistently
attended EX·TRACTS.
August 20 - 22, 2005:
Australasian Spa Association 3rd Annual Conference
Crown Promenade Hotel,
Melbourne, Australia
ANNOUNCING - our third National Conference - evolving
to be even greater than 2004! At the beautiful Crown Promenade Hotel in
Melbourne, highlights will include four keynote speakers, lots of panel
discussions and individual speakers, to engage the whole industry. A special
workshop for up-and- coming students and therapists on the Monday will help
to develop their understanding of the opportunities available in the spa
industry for their future spa career development. We'll enjoy welcoming
cocktails on Saturday, a Gala Dinner on Sunday, a Spa Showcase including some
new suppliers and products, and optional tours of nearby spa facilities on
Tuesday.
September 2-4, 2005:
Spa Industry Seminar 2005
Presented by The Turning Point at the Sentosa
Resort & Spa, Singapore.
Spa Industry Seminar 2005 is a 3-day event
featuring an impressive line-up of high caliber speakers covering a varied
range of spa and wellness industry topics. The event also offers workshops
and "interactive focus groups". This is an international event, attracting
industry professionals representing different aspects and levels of the
spa/wellness industries: owners, investors, senior (hotel/resort/spa)
corporate executives, general managers, spa consultants, architects/interior
designers, academics, medical doctors, anthropologists, therapy product
manufacturers and distributors, therapists and lifestyle journalists.
September 30 - Oct 3,
2005: ISPA Conference & Expo
Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention
Center Dallas, Texas, USA The ISPA Conference & Expo is the one must-attend
educational and networking event of the year for spa professionals. With a
15-year history, the expectation of Conference attendees is to provide spa
owners, directors, managers and suppliers with cutting edge tips on where the
industry is headed and how to ensure that business is sustainable.
December 1-5, 2005:
Symposium At Sea - International Medical Spa Association
Sailing from Ft.
Lauderdale to Key West and Cozumel.
Subjects covered will include new
technologies and treatments, best practices, legal and liability issues,
insurance business structures, and marketing. Several optional education
opportunities such as facility design, finance and operations programs will
be available on the day of departure. Also planned is a special presentation
from the Society of Cosmetic Chemists on the direction of advanced research
in skincare. The cruise is scheduled to visit the ports of Key West and
Cozumel and spend an entire day at sea. Space is limited. Make your
reservations now.
Various Sources
UK Spa Firm to
Stars Creates 400 Jobs in Expansion. Around 400 jobs are to be created
after a Midlands-based spa company - whose clients include Robbie Williams,
Catherine Zeta Jones and Clive Owen - announced a pounds 40 million
expansion. Spa and Resort Operations - owners of the Eden Day Spas
based at the Hoar Cross Hall spa resort in Staffordshire and Eden Hall in
Nottinghamshire - said the work would include the construction of a third spa
planned at a currently undisclosed location in the West Midlands. Other work
to be carried out include a 65,000 square foot expansion at Hoar Cross Hall
which will include a 26 metre salt water pool with four spa pools, relaxation
cave, an aqua massage centre and detox steam sauna, saunarium rest areas, a
gym extension, new aerobic studio, a new yoga suite, squash court and
softball games area. The extension is due for completion this month. A range
of positions are being recruited.
Full Story
Solana Medspas
Celebrates Two Year Anniversary. Solana MedSpas, an Irvine, Calif.- based
business consulting firm, is pleased to announce its two year anniversary.
Founded in July 2003, Solana is the nation's leading medical spa consulting
company with a growing network of uniquely branded facilities all over North
America. Targeting entrepreneurs and physicians who want to develop and
operate their own medical spa facility, Solana provides consulting services
including business plan development, retail site location and design,
regulatory compliance, staffing and training of key personnel, and custom
marketing to drive revenue.
Press Release
Virgnia Now Regulating
the Skincare Industry. During microdermabrasion, small crystals polish
away at the skin's surface. Chemical peels use acids to smooth the face by
removing outer layers of skin. In Virginia, those performing these procedures
in popular day spas do not have to meet any training standards - until now.
Full Story
Steiner Leisure Reveals
Mandara Expansion Plans. Steiner Leisure, which operates the Mandara Spa
brand of premium destination spas, has agreed tomanagement contracts for
seven new spa projects.
Full Story
More Hospitals Offering
Spa Style Services. After being diagnosed with and treated for breast
cancer, Karan Lytle of Ahwatukee Foothills was looking for something to make
her feel and look better. When she heard about Oasis Spa at Banner Desert
Medical Center - and particularly its supervisor, Janice Hein - Lytle knew
she had found who and what she needed. "Reading that (Hein) was a licensed
nurse as well as a licensed aesthetician, I felt very comfortable going
there," says Lytle, 53. And traveling to the Mesa hospital was part of her
routine, so it was familiar.
Full Story
A Man's Manicure and
Massage. Some curious names are cropping up on the schedules at spas
across the country. In between the Amys, Karlas and Debbies is a growing list
of gentlemen on the calendar, as guys increasingly claim their own share of
the spa scene. And while they might cringe at the notion of pink toenail
polish or a fruit-scented body treatment, men are embracing this
traditionally female domain, boosting business for the spa industry and
unwinding along the way. "To have my pedicure done was like nothing I'd ever
felt before," said 45-year-old Vito Schimdt. "And was something I would do
again." The New York-based homebuilder did more than get his toes cleaned up
- he participated in a weekendlong makeover at a hotel in New York, including
etiquette classes, a wardrobe consultation and cooking class, as the hotel
and spa industry looks for new ways to cater to its male clientele.
Full Story
Metrosexual Men Fueling
Growth in the Leisure Industry. During the past decade, spas have become
omnipresent in American culture. You see them everywhere - airports, doctors'
offices, on television - in large cities and small across the country and
around the globe. Once reserved for the occasional extravagant day or the
wealthy, a growing number of people today use spas to indulge, escape, or to
get "work" done on some aspect of their body or their emotional state.
Full Story
New Course Combines
Trends of America's Spa Boom and Movement Toward Integrative Wellness. UC
Irvine Extension is launching a new course in the Spa and Hospitality
Management Program entitled, "Integrative Wellness within Spa Environments:
Rituals of Healing." The program is the first on the West Coast established
to provide real- world curriculum to meet the demands of the bourgeoning spa
market. The first offering of the course will take place at the Spa at Laguna
Cliffs Marriott Resort, Dana Point, California.
Press Release
How To Start Your
Medical Spa With The Help Of Other Physicians. Everywhere, physicians are
contemplating or engaged in expanding into the "medical spa" market. Seduced
by the industry buzz around this hot new phenomenon, many doctors see the
medical spa as a means to boost their income and eliminate the grind and
countless headaches of their daily practice. They read about growth
statistics, see dazzling new equipment at trade shows, watch competitors
popping up, and fear that they may be falling behind the times. With pen in
hand they're ready to sign lease agreements, loan documents and lots of
checks in order to catch up with a crowd of savvy entrepreneurs who know
where the real action is. And the truth is that they may be right. Medical
spas are the natural evolution of cosmetic medicine, and those who don't join
the revolution will watch from the sidelines as their fate is decided.
Press Release
Sugar-Free Jell-o Man
Brings Salon Idea to KC. The man who came up with the idea for sugar-free
Jell-o is touting a new idea that he said will revolutionize the $200 billion
beauty salon industry. Bob Salem, co-founder of Profound Beauty Inc. of New
York City, was at Salon Ami Day Spa in Independence, the first Kansas
City-area salon selected to sell Profound brand shampoos,
conditioners, hair treatments and styling products. Salem, whose company has
signed up more than 100 salons in three countries since launching the
Profound line in January, said he hopes to end diversion through several
features that will guarantee the products are truly sold only in salons. "We
imprint every single Profound bottle we ship with the salon's name and
address, making our product diversion-proof," Salem said.
Full Story
New Extended Vacation
Body Care Collection Improves Sunless Tanning Results. SluffWIPES
launched their new Extended Vacation® Body Care Collection. Well known for
introducing SluffWIPES, the ultimate pre-tan/airbrush prep wipe to the
sunless industry two years ago, SluffWIPES has expanded their offerings to
include a luxurious retail body care collection called Extended Vacation.
This collection of products was designed to improve the look, fade, color and
overall beauty of all airbrush tans, spray booth tans and self-tanning
lotions.
Press Release
Cornelia Day Resort
Announces New Managing Director. Cornelia Day Resort, New York's
preeminent luxury spa and day resort, announced today that Simon Marxer,
former Spa Director at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, has joined Cornelia
Day Resort as Managing Director.
Press Release
Guilty Pleasures: Bliss
is only a manicure away. To follow your bliss, as the late Joseph
Campbell instructed us, is a noble goal -- yet it's still nice when Bliss
arrives all on its own. Or, in this case, Bliss Spa -- the hip New York
pampering emporium that's as cheeky as it is chic. San Francisco's Bliss Spa
opens its trademark blue doors Monday, transforming the fourth floor of the W
Hotel into 5,000 square feet of "tension-fighting facilities." The South of
Market spa, the first on the West Coast, will offer the same signature
treatments made famous at the other locations.
But before the public
pads into the posh environs, a handful of San Francisco teachers got a
special private preview last week while receiving free treatments and
products as part of the company's way to build goodwill in the community.
Bliss staffers flew out from New York last month, met with representatives
from Mayor Gavin Newsom's office and asked if he would recommend "people who
deserve bliss but may not be able to afford it," said Kerry O'Day, one of the
company "publissists" at the meeting.
Full Story
Unconventional
Music Collaboration Changes the Day Spa Industry
Music For
Synchronized Swimming In Space
Spa music has been
stuck in a time when ocean waves and singing whales defined relaxation. The
80's are over and Miss Celie's Spa Orleans of New Orleans has
partnered with Hi-Fi Sky to produce something entirely original -- "Music
For Synchronized Swimming In Space."
Hi-Fi Sky was formed
in 2004 by Tim Sommer and Alexandra Scott in the flat, flaking, slanting,
shambolic city of New Orleans to make quiet music to be played very loudly,
or loud music to be played very quietly. In conjunction with the release of
their debut album, they'll be playing extensively around their hometown (see
itinerary below). Their debut album Music For Synchronized Swimming In Space
is 67 minutes of grand, ghostly, spacious, melodic sound and was released by
Seersucker Fantasy Records April 20. It is music that could only be created
in New Orleans from melodies that are rooted in the city's 200 year-old
French and Cajun culture.
"No more whales mating and
waves crashing. The same music has been used at spas since I was in high
school. We know our clients want to hear something different," said Keith
West-Harrison, co- owner of Spa Orleans, "and with this completely novel
collection of music, they can."
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Closing July 15, 2005:
Ultimate Pedicures. If your spa or salon offers a unique and out of the
ordinary pedicure experience, submit details.
Closing August 1, 2005:
Vinotherapy. If your spa or salon offers vinotherapy treatments (spa
treatments based on wine and/or inspired by grapes and wine), please submit
details, below.
Closing August 10, 2005:
If your spa resort would like to be considered as a potential host for a US
marketed spa getaway sweepstakes, sponsored by a nationally known weight loss
organization, please submit your inquiry. This sweepstakes will award a one
week spa getaway to a successful weight loss candidate. Host spa resorts are
still being considered.
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