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Outrigger Announces New Project in the Republic of Palau

Outrigger Enterprises Group announced it has entered into an agreement with Micronesia Investment and Development Corporation (MIDCORP) and Agora Development Group (ADG) to manage a new luxury resort project to be built on the island of Koror in the Republic of Palau. 

The resort, to be called the Outrigger Palau Resort, Spa and Hotel, will be built on a beachfront site near Echang village. The US$40 million resort is tentatively set for completion in late 2009 and will consist of 100 luxury hotel rooms, 10 over-water bungalows and 50 villas/condominiums, in addition to several restaurants, retail shops, spa and function space.

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CIGNA Healthy Rewards Expands Health and Wellness Discounts for Members

CIGNA HealthCare has expanded its Healthy Rewards® health and wellness discount amenity program to include discounts of up to 60 percent on physical fitness centers, wellness and stress management programs and oral health products. Healthy Rewards provides easy access to a variety of brand name health and wellness products and services at discounted prices to help members get healthy and stay healthy.

. . .   [As] part of the recent Healthy Rewards expansion, members can relax and relieve stress with access to over 3,500 spas including day, destination, hotel, and medical spas.

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Open Wide and Say Spa

The dentist's chair is an awful place to be. Right? Not necessarily. The experience of sitting in a dentist's chair may become more palatable in the future, thanks to dentists' chairs that deliver back rubs. And that may be only the beginning, as dentists across the nation are beginning to offer spa services along with dentistry.

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Cornell University’s Center for Hospitality Research Partners with Mobil Travel Guide

The Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research announced today a partnership with Mobil Travel Guide, originators of the Five-Star ratings and certifications program for hotels, restaurants, and spas. The partnership will provide industry management with additional insight into hospitality service standards as well as strategies and tactics for establishing and maintaining them on a global basis.

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Facials for the Other End

In today's heated spa market, where there is skin, there is treatment. With the recent fixation on the junk in the trunk, spas are promoting special "facials" for the posterior in Miami, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Boston and New York. The treatments are among noninvasive services that spas have developed to capitalize on clients who have income to spare, a desire to repair body parts they don't like and a compulsion to buff, tighten and pamper every bit of skin.  Including there, on the derriere.

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Emerson Resort & Spa Reopens in New York after 2005 Fire

Earlier this years, construction workers hustled about the new Emerson Resort & Spa (New York) spa facility, where massive, intricately carved 16th century Persian doors herald a grand entrance. The doors, once a part of owner Dean Gitter's personal antique collection, are the inspiration for the spa theme: The Silk Road. The passageway refers to an ancient 5,000 mile trade route in Southeastern Asia where travelers bartered jade, gold, silk and art, contributing to the development of civilizations including China and Rome from the early thirteenth century until the eighteenth century.   . . .

The original Emerson Inn & Spa, which began operating in 2000, was partially destroyed by fire in April 2005 when a four-alarm blaze demolished the Inn portion of the facility.

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Ski In - Ski Out Spa Opened at Beaver Run Resort, Colorado

The Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center, located slopeside at the Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado, has opened a luxury full-service spa as part of a $3.5 million renovation.  The ski-in/ski-out Spa at Beaver Run has 20 trained aestheticians and massage therapists and features six treatment rooms for mud wraps, Bindi herbal body treatments and oxygen therapy, among other treatments. Within the 2,800 square-foot facility are two six-person hot tubs with a view of the mountains, and a Vichy shower - a horizontal shower bed with multiple showerheads. The new Watsu therapy pool, at 9,800 feet, is believed to be the highest in North America.

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Six Senses Expands in 2007

Six Senses Resorts & Spas will see 2007 as one of its most significant years of development as it prepares to open two Evason Hideaways, plus launch its first destination spa as an extension of its acclaimed Six Senses Spas.

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Change of Ownership for The Shores Resort & Spa, Daytona Beach, Florida

Lowe Enterprises Investors (LEI), the investment management affiliate of national real estate company Lowe Enterprises, has acquired The Shores Resort & Spa, a 212-room luxury oceanfront resort in Daytona Beach Shores, Fla. for $39.8 million. LEI acquired the property from Noble House Hotels & Resorts, Inc. on behalf of Lowe Hospitality Investment Partners, a $266 million discretionary fund that invests solely in hotel and resort properties. Another Lowe affiliate company, Destination Hotels & Resorts, will assume management of the property.

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Facelogic Spa Franchise to Add 30 Day Spas

US-based Facelogic International – a spa franchise company – has revealed plans to open up to 30 day spa properties in the US by July.   The ethos of each Facelogic spa is to provide luxurious but affordable therapies and products for the face.  Each Facelogic franchise offers the same treatment menu.  There are currently 14 Facelogic spas open in the US with a total of 59 territories sold. Upcoming openings include spas in Colorado, Florida and California.

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