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SpaWire: Connecting you to the Spa, Salon, and Wellness Industry
News for
the Week of November 1, 2004
SpaWire(tm) is a complimentary news digest brought to you by SpaIndex.Com: Guide to Day Spas and Stay Spas, and our newest sponsor. This week, we'll share the latest news headlines, announcements, and information. Please make special note of our ISPA Conference participation below, if you would like to meet with us during the Conference. We look forward to it!
Natural
Salt Lamps
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ISPA Annual
Conference: Silent Auction
November 8-11, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada Are you considering adding your day spa or vacation spa to the group of spas listed on SpaIndex.Com? If so, you may start the new year off with a bang, both on a professional and personal level: SpaIndex.Com has donated five (5) annual listing memberships to the Silent Auction benefiting the ISPA Foundation. The ISPA Foundation raises funds for research and educational initiatives. If you are considered listing your spa facility on SpaIndex.Com for the 2005 calendar year, this is an opportunity to bolster your industry and your business at the same time. SpaWire has received numerous telephone calls, emails, and written requests for our staff members to stop by various vendor booths and/or hospitality suites in order to say hello to our old friends, meet our new friends, greet our vendors and advertisers, and give press comments regarding our spa members on SpaIndex.Com. If you would like SpaWire to stop by your booth to meet you or view your products and services for potential exposure in SpaWire, please let us know by clicking the "Request an Introduction" link below, and we'll make every attempt to do so.
Luxury
Hotel Group to get Spa Standard
Palm Beach Daily News, Nov 1, 2004 In every time zone from Palm Beach to the Himalayas, luxury hotel spas interpret ways to relax, regroup and rejoin the fray. Yet a guest's spa expectations are as individual as their tastes in cuisine, linens and room temperature. Striving to forge the first global standard for spa excellence, The Leading Hotels of the World Ltd. will unveil a new accreditation program today during the group's three-day annual conference.
The Leading
Hotels of the World, Ltd. Announces Third Annual Commitment to Quality
Award Winners
PR Newswire Nov 13, 2004 The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd. today announced the winners of its Third Annual Commitment to Quality Awards during its 2004 International Convention, held in Palm Beach, Florida, October 31 to November 3.
Medical Spa
Makeovers Gone Wrong
CBS News Oct 29, 2004 (CBS) The latest trend in personal beauty - botox - is injecting even more money into the $11 billion spa industry. "It's a war out there actually," says Ronda Howara, owner of a medical spa in Los Angeles where you can have your nails done, hair lasered off and face fixed - all in one visit. Howara's spa is supervised by a plastic surgeon, and the botox and lasers are only dispensed by nurses. But, as she tells CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes, that is not always the case.
Top Six
Sanitation Errors in Spas
PR Leap and Spa Secure, Nov 4, 2004 Spa Secure issues list of most sited problems during onsite spa visits. "Typically spa directors and owners are nervous when we physically go through their site to look for sanitation issues, licensure and scope of practice given each technician's licensure, training, education and skill sets. However, even spas that are going the extra mile to do everything correctly are missing the mark when it comes to a few basic considerations," says Melinda Minton, founder of The Spa Association and Spa Secure, who recently created a short list of things to look for in your spa.
Lake Oswego
spa designed to lure men, teens as core clients
Oregon Live Oct 12, 2004 Dyana Rassouli, owner of the new Lake Oswego Spa, has designed her business in a way she hopes will lure them. In building the concept for the spa, Rassouli faced the challenge of designing the $1.8 million facility and targeting her services to appeal to growing demographic groups in the spa world -- men and teens -- while continuing to cater to middle-age women, the spa's core demographic.
World's
First Health Resort & Spa For Gay And Lesbian Travelers Opens Nov.
15th
Gay Wired, Oct 20, 2004 World-first Coyote Moon Health Resort & Spa opens for business November 15, 2004 in Tucson, AZ, heralding a new era in travel experiences available to the gay and lesbian community and their friends. Coyote Moon is the only health resort and spa to offer a range of holistic health, spa, fitness, lectures, day trips and entertainment programs tailored to the specific needs of gays and lesbians. The 'Coyote Moon Experience' is personalized for each guest, chosen from the resort's extensive range of activities and services.
Luxury Spa
at Hitler's Lair
Times Online Oct 25, 2004 Designers of a luxury hotel spa built on the site of Hitler's Alpine hideaway are to use Aboriginal healing methods and Chinese feng shui techniques to banish the ghost of the Nazi leader. The Berchtesgaden Inter-Continental Hotel, rapidly taking shape on what is known as Goering's Hill, is trying to persuade a high-spending clientele that visiting the place where Hitler planned the invasion of Poland is a pleasurable, even healthy, experience.
Integrative
Medicine: Massage not just pampering
Billings Gazette: Health: Nov 3, 2004 The athletic world is a great supporter of massage therapy. Many professional teams employ their own therapist who travels with the team. Massage therapists are widely utilized during the Olympics, with each sport having therapists that specialize specifically in that field.
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