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March 30, 2004
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In This Issue:
-- The Spa Association (SPAA) launches The Spa Foundation
-- Client Referral / Testimonial Tool from OrderGenerator
-- The California Spa Community Loses a Pioneer
-- Green light for $20m New Zealand spa resort
-- Spa Club Asia Launches Membership Programme
-- Haute Hotels Redo the Loo: Ancient Bathing Rituals Redefined
-- Serving wine to customers? Check your State Laws
-- Evian Spa opens in Shanghai
-- Second Annual Santa Barbara Beauty Expo: June 6-7, 2004
-- Ventura Tan / VT SPA / VT SALON ... Sunless Beauty
-- Advertiser: All Natural Ear Candling Supplies from Bee Hemp

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The Spa Association (SPAA) launches The Spa Foundation
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The Spa Foundation is a non-profit corporation committed to creating educational and training scholarship opportunities for future estheticians, massage therapists and other spa industry technicians by coordinating donations and support from the spa industry.

With the increasing popularity of spas and the diminishing pool of licensed professionals to work in them, the relationship between manufacturers, spas, educators and the future workforce must become stronger to benefit all involved. Every day countless people seek to better their skills and careers as they struggle to keep their homes, raise smart, healthy kids and create a better life for themselves and their family. The Spa Foundation is committed to not only helping qualified individuals enter beauty and massage schools, we also seek to provide them with financial skills, self help programming and job placement that will allow them to succeed in the long run. We are growing people while also benefiting the spa industry.

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Client Referral / Testimonial Tool from OrderGenerator
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SPA AND SALON DIRECTORS: AUTOMATE AND ACCELERATE THE ABILITY FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS TO PROVIDE POSITIVE TESTIMONIALS AND TO RECOMMEND YOU TO THEIR FRIENDS! Implement a successful word of mouth spa marketing program that gets your customers to do your advertising for you. Use our donation motivator tool to motivate client referrals with a donation reward to the referrer's cause of choice. Learn more about this great spa marketing strategy and how it can fit into our overall spa and salon marketing plan.

For more information, visit Order Generator online

The California Spa Community Loses a Pioneer
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Dr. John Wilkinson, owner of Dr. Wilkinson's Hot Springs Resort in Calistoga, California, died at the age of 89 on Friday. Wilkinson earned the respect of his customers and his competition, eventually earning him the nickname, "Dean of Calistoga Spas." (NapaNews.Com)

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Green light for $20m New Zealand spa resort
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A $20 million spa resort has won resource consent and will be developed on 1.3ha of former citrus orchard land next to Pauanui's waterways (New Zealand). The three- level Orange Grove Spa will have 54 rooms, two restaurants seating 85 and 40 people, saunas, fitness centres, an indoor pool, a heated 25m lap-pool and eight treatment rooms. Construction is expected to start in the next few months and it should open by the middle of next year. (Melanie Feisst, Stuff.Co.NZ)

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Spa Club Asia Launches Membership Programme
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A spa and wellbeing membership programme has been set up, to offer people interested in wellness, a year- round support network to help them maintain a healthy and balanced lifestyle. For HK$2,888 (EU300/US$370), members are given a number of complimentary treatments, including facials, slimming treatments, body wraps and massages, plus a wellness assessment, a beauty make over and four-week exercise membership. Additionally, members receive ongoing benefits, such as invitations to beauty, wellbeing and health seminars and workshops, access to spa cuisine recipes and can take advantage of discounts on health and beauty products, vitamins, health foods and holidays at selected destination spas. (WorldLeisureNews)

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Haute Hotels Redo the Loo: Ancient Bathing Rituals Redefined
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From eccentric and functionally luxurious to Zen sensual, bathroom design is all the rage at the world's high-end crash pads. Hotelier-to-the-hip Ian Schrager reinvented the lodging industry with tony lobby lounges, sexy bedrooms and foursome-sized bathtubs at the Morgans and Royalton hotels in New York and the Delano in Miami more than a decade ago. Fifty years earlier, legendary American fixture manufacturer Kohler built a town, country club and reputation around the bath by featuring innovative products at its AAA five-diamond-ranked American Club resort spa in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Today, resort guests spend a whopping one-third of their waking day in the bathroom as most hotel brands rush to redefine the ancient ritual. Secret watery weapons include every imaginable amenity, from tropical downpour and massage showers -- some augmented with steam, light and aromatherapy -- to heated chrome towel racks, plasma TVs, and scales that aren't afraid to reveal muscle-fat ratios. (GlobeandMail.Com)

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Serving wine to customers? Check your State Laws
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The Utah State Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday warned owners of day spas and hair salons that it is illegal to offer patrons a glass of wine. The warning followed an undercover investigation prompted by a Salt Lake County spa providing free wine to customers. (SaltLakeTribune)

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Evian Spa opens in Shanghai
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The first Evian branded spa outside France has opened its doors to the public, in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The spa was designed by architects Michael Graves and Hong Kong-based Alan Chan Associates. (WorldLeisureNews)

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Second Annual Santa Barbara Beauty Expo: June 6-7, 2004
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Ventura Tan / VT SPA / VT SALON ... Sunless Beauty
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VenturaTan, VT SPA and VT SALON offers you the latest innovations in sunless beauty. VenturaTan began as a new "twist" on an existing idea. The VenturaTan airbrush tanning formulation was derived from extensive research of the many airbrush solutions offered around the country. Present milestone improvements in the original formulas have given VenturaTan the boasting rights to descriptives such as "odorless", "colorless' and "non-sticky". Airbrush, HVLP and gel applications available. Now VenturaTan has expanded to include luxury spa products. With the introduction of the VTSpa and VTSalon lines, these high quality products are finally available for personal use, as well as wholesale for spas and salons. Our products are developed and created in-house with no secondary sourcing. We also blend and manufacture our own foaming Mineral Salt Scrub, Sweet Southern Sugar Scrub, Creme Body Mists, Nourishing Lotion, Full Body Toner, lotions and potions, each drenched in scents of the South, including Georgia Peach, White Cotton, Creekwater, Southern Citrus and Cucumber Melon. Vitamin enriched, no alcohol. From any angle...it's a great tan.

For spas and salons interested in purchasing VenturaTan products, our wholesale store is designed to provide you with the highest quality airbrush tanning products, accessories and equipment at discounted prices.

VenturaTan will be a sponsor of the May 2004 SpaIndex Spa Getaway Sweepstakes, and has been featured in SPA 20/20 and Looking Fit Magazines.

Visit VenturaTan online

Advertiser: All Natural Ear Candling Supplies from Bee Hemp
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Bee-Hemp Ear Candles offers hand-crafted 100% cotton, hemp cloth or organic cloth ear candles with Beeswax and Soy Wax. We offer an excellent variety of high quality ear candling products at competitive prices, and we supply to individuals and businesses. No minimum quantities required, however, wholesale pricing available to spas and salons placing an order for 500 or more pieces. Sample paks available to business customers.

 

Visit us online at http://www.hemp-ear-candles.com