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April 29, 2004
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In This Issue:
-- Extraordinary massage carried invaluable business message
-- SpaIndex.com and SpaWire Join ISPA
-- SouthEastern, Esthetics, Cosmetics & Spa Conference: Charlotte, NC
-- SpaConcept Bromont
-- Second annual 'World's Largest Free Spa' announced
-- Organic Indian Ayurvedic Spa Treatments Seminars: Plantation, Florida
-- Caracalla Spa voted best in Middle East
-- Boutique Resort Spearheads Palm Springs Renaissance
-- Salon became winner by losing sports focus
-- Shangri-La plans spas to add luxury, occupancy
-- Cleanse Body & Mind: Spa Style Europe
-- Spa Index Career Board Spotlight: Orlando, Florida

Welcome to SpaWire (tm), a complimentary digest of spa industry news, features, and resources for the spa and salon professional, brought to you by SpaIndex.Com: Guide to Day Spas and Stay Spas.

Extraordinary massage carried invaluable business message
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Isn't it great when an unexpected pleasure slaps you upside the head and reminds you of the little things that really matter in business? Well, I had one! It wasn't a mere raise-the-bar experience. It launched the bar. It was a moonshot!

(Jeff Blackman, exclusive to the Marco Island Eagle, details how a simple massage evolved into a series of valuable business lessons).

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SpaIndex.com and SpaWire Join ISPA
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SpaIndex.Com: Guide to Day Spas and Stay Spas, which compiles and publishes SpaWire, has been accepted as a member of the International Spa Association (ISPA).

"The spa and wellness industry is experiencing incredible growth," said Kristina J. Fitzhugh, Editor of SpaIndex.Com and SpaWire.Com "and our own growth has been tremendous since our start in 1998. We began as a small group of professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area, keeping an index of our favorite spa facilities in California. We now offer our readers comprehensive listings for spas in 39 countries. Our readers are eager to learn more about the spa life, and ISPA provides us with the educational and networking opportunities we need to stay on top of the latest information."

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SouthEastern, Esthetics, Cosmetics & Spa Conference: Charlotte, NC
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Enjoy learning tips from the experts on how to have your own successful spa. Gain continuing education in cosmetics, esthetics and massage therapy. Topics covered include specialized make-up, spa marketing, rosacea and skin disorders, Microdermabrasion, herbal holistics, reflexology, aroma-therapy, LED therapy, hair removal, chemical peels, skin resurfacing and more.

June 14-15, 2004 Conference Details

SpaConcept Bromont
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One of the pioneers of spa life in Quebec continues to be a leader in the world of wellness. SpaConcept Bromont has been operating in the Chateau Bromont since the hotel opened in 1986. Although massages, beauty treatments and natural cures were popular in Quebec well before that date, SpaConcept created quite a stir with its indoor pool, unusual mud and algae body-care treatments and European potions. (Montreal Gazette)

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Second annual 'World's Largest Free Spa' announced
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Nashville, TN area women are invited to schedule a day to take care of themselves when All About Women hosts the second annual "World's Largest Free Spa," a two-day program set for Aug. 27 and 28 at the Nashville Convention Center. (Williamson County Review Appeal)

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Organic Indian Ayurvedic Spa Treatments Seminars: Plantation, Florida
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Anoo's is a chain of Organic Spas established in India in 1982, started by the eldest of the four Anoo's sisters, Mrs. Annapurna Polsani, as a small parlor and day spa with only two treatment rooms. It has grown into the biggest chain of beauty spas in South India, with 300 treatment facilities in over 15 locations, employing about 350 personnel. Anoo's specializes in Ancient Indian Herbal treatments.

Anoo's brings years of research and experience to you in Seminars for Rejuvenating and Healing Arts of Organic Ayurvedic Indian Treatments in Plantation, Florida. We will be introducing a wide variety of spa treatments that will teach you to use the powerful benefits of all-natural fresh fruits, vegetables, Ayurvedic herbs, and ancient Indian therapeutic techniques. Make your spa unique and increase your talents and revenue by introducing Anoo's Organic Indian Ayurvedic Treatments in your business. Anoo's from India supplies all herbs needed to perform the treatments. Questions on continuing education credits for Estheticians and Massage therapists? Call us at 1- 877-983-SKIN or visit our seminar link, below.

Click here for details (next Seminar Dates: May 23-24, 2004)

Caracalla Spa voted best in Middle East
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Conde Nast Traveller, the UK-based travel magazine that has become essential reading in the world of travel, has released the results of its annual readers' spa awards - with a nod going to Caracalla Spa at Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa, Dubai. (AME Info)

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Boutique Resort Spearheads Palm Springs Renaissance
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Another example of Palm Springs' renaissance and development is open for business, returning to life a vital part of the desert resort's storied past. The Springs of Palm Springs Hotel & Spa is a boutique resort property featuring 25 artistically designed rooms with courtyard and mountain views. In the coming months, the resort will serve as home to a new 3,000- square- foot spa and state-of-the-art fitness center called Rituals. (YaHoo Finance)

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Salon became winner by losing sports focus
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With 1,000 baseball, basketball, racquetball and bowling enthusiasts using the Total Sports Center daily, two entrepreneurs thought the Harrison Township site was perfect for a salon and spa they opened inside the building in early 2001. Their reasoning: Bored spectators would jog inside along with people wanting to correct helmet hair and others with strained muscles seeking therapeutic massage. But it didn't work as they hoped. (Detroit News)

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Shangri-La plans spas to add luxury, occupancy
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Shangri-La Asia Ltd aims to build on the idyllic image its name conjures by introducing its own spa brand to many of its hotels, a move that should also deliver a more tangible benefit: higher occupancy levels, a senior company executive said. The luxury hotel group, which took its name from the tranquil haven in author James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, is to open a number of spas under the newly launched "CHI" brand. (Haveeru Daily Online)

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Cleanse Body & Mind: Spa Style Europe
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Ginger Lee, author of the new book, Spa Style Europe, says that spas today aren't what they used to be.

"The term spa has been diluted to refer to everything from a bath with water jets to an establishment that only offers grooming services," she says. "But, in the English-speaking parts of Europe and other parts of the world, the term is understood to encompass a wider approach to health and wellness, rest and relaxation that aims to treat the body, mind and spirit." (ICTeesside.co.uk)

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