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June 2005, Volume 1
June 13, 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:

Spa Index: Guide to Day Spas and Stay Spas. A comprehensive guide to day spas, stay spas, and wellness travel. Popular free newsletters profile spa specials and at home tips and ideas, spa cuisine, spa events, and more.

SpaWire: Connecting you to the Spa, Salon and Wellness Industry. A complimentary news digest with weekly news stories, announcements, press releases, convention events, trends, and spotlights, and resources for education, training, and wholesale supplies.

Spa Flyer: Blogging your Specials, Promotions, Grand Openings, Renovation Re- Openings and other up to the minute news of interest to the spa enthusiast.

Our Sponsor for this issue: Intrinsics.Net. This comprehensive line of single-use products is the best in its class. Superior in quality, function, and form, the Intrinsics line provides consistent integrity you can count on. In fact, salon professionals have been doing just that since 1930.

 

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 ave 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.

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In Brief
Various Sources

May 26, 2005: The Incredible Story of the Banyan Tree Group. The Times calls him the 'Branson of the East', but the title doesn't fit. True, there are some commonalities. Ho Kwon Ping (better known as KP Ho) is as expert a marketer as the high-flying founder of the airline-to-music Virgin group. Both the Chinese Singaporean and the Englishman can teach experts a trick or two about global branding. Both are pioneers when it comes to redefining old businesses. While Richard Branson recreated the romance of flying, KP Ho put romance back into luxury holidays. But the similarities end there.

June 2, 2005: ASSEMBLY BILL AIMS TO PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM PEDICURE- RELATED INFECTIONS. Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, has introduced a bill that would set minimum health standards for all nail salons in California in the wake of a rise in the number of pedicure-related infections.

June 3, 2005: Scottsdale Hyatt resort to open $9 mil luxury spa in July. America has become a spa nation, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Valley's luxury resort industry. In recent years, resorts without spas or with outdated ones have added or upgraded them to compete with the new luxury hotels that feature state-of-the-art facilities. Most of them also have tacked "and Spa" onto their names. The latest to join the fraternity is the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch, long one of the Valley's most popular resorts. But it has only a few massage and treatment rooms in the hotel and sends many guests to a health club across the street. That will change early next month when the Hyatt introduces its new $9 million, 21,000-square- foot Spa Avania in a free-standing building on the resort's grounds.

June 4, 2005: Raleigh Plastic Surgery Center and Medical Spa Wins National Award. Kile Law, owner of Blue Water Spa, a Plastic Surgery Medical Spa Recently Won the 2004 ABBIE Award for best editorial feature in an industry publication. Kile owns Blue Water Spa with her husband, board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Law. Her series of articles, "Starting from Scratch" appeared in four consecutive issues of Skin Inc Magazine, a national skin care and spa publication. The articles documented the amazing success of Michael Law MD, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and Blue Water Spa during their first two years in Raleigh, North Carolina.

June 7, 2005: New Products and Procedures Tout Softening and Anti-Aging Powers. The face gets more than its share of attention. Creams and lotions are specially made to moisturize it, protect it from the sun and erase its wrinkles. Cosmetic surgery techniques are designed to keep it looking youthful for a lifetime. But what about your hands? They get noticed eventually, when they rise to shake another's hand, to wave or gesture, to give or receive. And then they, too, can make an indelible impression. And so it is not surprising that hands have become a new battleground in the great cosmetic war against aging.

June 11, 2005: Public gets first glimpse of Bath Spa Project. There are plans to offer tours to other Bath residents The first public tours of the troubled Bath Spa project have been held. Up to 70 people who contributed financially to the project were given their first glimpse inside the city centre building on Saturday.

June 11, 2005: Asana Spa by Body Bistro Introduces The Tapioca Infused Foot Ritual. Feet have never been treated so well! This month, ASANA SPA®, a professional division within Body Bistro® that works with spas and salons globally to develop unique and holistic customized Ayurvedic treatments for the face and body, introduces the Tapioca Infused Foot Ritual, a 30-minute professional foot treatment that blends ancient Ayurvedic massage techniques with Tapioca and other delectable culinary ingredients to detoxify, smooth, soften and refresh the feet.

June 12, 2005: The Spa: Petal Power. They are beautiful. They are symbols of love. And their fragrance is a pleasure to the olfactory senses. However, along with all these qualities, flowers are also healers in their own right. Indian flower remedy is another form of alternative healing that can combat many ailments. You name any problem and it seems that flower remedy has an answer, says Dr Rupa Shah, who, along with her husband, Dr Atul Shah, has been practising flower remedy since the last 18 years.

 

Summer Sun Survival Contest 2005
Sponsored by Physician Endorsed

Spa Index Media, LLC, publisher of three popular spa industry websites, and Physician Endorsed, a leading supplier of quality hat wear and accessories, have opened the "Summer Sun Survival Contest."

Now, three (3) Spa Index newsletter readers have a chance to win one of the popular Sun Survival Kits created by Physician Endorsed. The contest is open to both current and new mailing list subscribers at Spa Index Media, and will run through July 1st, 2005. To enter the contest, readers simply need to be subscribed to one or more complimentary spa newsletters (SpaIndex News, SpaWire, or SpaFlyer) published by Spa Index Media, and, complete an online entry form.

"The Sun Survival Kits being offered in our promotion each contain a fashionable and functional Physician Endorsed sunhat, a pair of sunglasses, a camera, quality sunscreen, and, fun and color mesh bags for transporting your accessories to the beach, river, or swimming pool" McClain added. "It's a complete kit for the outdoor enthusiast eager to protect himself or herself from the hot summer sun."

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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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Developing Signature Spa Services
By Frank Guengerich

When you are in the development stage of a fitness center spa, it is important to pay particularly close attention to your concept. The spa concept is what is unique about your business, and identifiable by your customers -- service ethic, environment, treatments and spa services.

Your spa will most likely be competing against other fitness center spas or local day spas. To set your spa apart, develop a concept and approach that will be appealing, and keep your customers loyal to your business. At resort and destination spas, it is common for the spa to take on a unique quality. A spa that is located at the beach may develop a spa concept that is marine-based, and that incorporates elements from the sea. A spa that is closely affiliated with a community or business may take on attributes that are consistent with that community or business. These attributes extend to design, interior furnishings, art, staff uniforms, marketing approach and the spa menu, to name a few.

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SpaWire Media Leads
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Closing July 1, 2005: Ultimate Pedicures. If your spa or salon offers a unique, ultimate, 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.

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