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Marriott Guarantees Sunshine ... or a Spa Treatment is Yours

A $50 resort credit serves as the silver lining if rain puts a damper on visits to Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in the new year.   To accommodate sun-seeking guests in all types of weather, Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa will now serve up an additional $50 resort credit if there is less than a 75% chance of sunshine (forecasted as 25% chance or greater of rain) during their stay. Travelers can spend the resort credit on any of the hotel's indoor amenities, from spa to shopping.

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Spotlight on Spa Capsules

Spa capsules are an all-in-one option for therapists to offer a wide range of treatments in one compact unit. Features of the spa capsule include an LCD panel showing preset programmes, adjustable steam therapy, infrared therapy, 14 Vichy shower heads, a cooling face breeze, aromatherapy reservoir, music facility and capsule remote control.

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Mobil Travel Guide Announces the 2008 Mobil Four and Five Star Hotel, Restaurant and Spa Awards

Mobil Travel Guide, the originator of the Mobil Travel Guide star ratings certifications, today unveiled its list of Mobil Four- and Five-Star hotels, restaurants and spas.  This is a milestone year for a company that has defined excellence and quality in the travel industry for the past 50 years.

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Bangkok Marriott Resort & Spa receives Green Hotel Award

The Bangkok Marriott Resort & Spa announced its achievement in receiving the ASEAN  Green Hotel Standard Award. The award recognizes the resort commitment in  being environmentally friendly and having adopted energy conservation measures.

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Spas Cater to Couples Trying to Conceive

Aspiring to go from being pampered to becoming parents, a growing number of couples are turning to spas to increase their chances of conceiving.  Instead of taking hormone injections, prospective mothers are submitting to acupuncture needles. Meds are being traded for massage. And in place of a cold doctor's office, couples enjoy feng shuied rooms, cascading waterfalls, and enough New Age music to turn a pit bull into a poodle. It's all part of the philosophy that relaxation is the drug-free path to reproductive success.

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Woman Sues Stonewater Spa Over Fondling Incident

A former resident has filed a federal lawsuit against a spa and its Canadian owner, alleging the salon should have fired the masseur convicted of fondling and kissing her two years ago because of two complaints from female co-workers about being touched by him.

Filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., on Thursday by Rosey Kalayjian, the suit alleges that the Stonewater Spa & Boutique did not discipline or fire Michael Krzyzak despite knowing he had been reported for touching female co-workers before groping Kalayjian and another woman on Jan. 16, 2005.

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Workers being tested for tuberculosis at La Costa Resort, California

Employees at the luxury La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad are being tested for tuberculosis after a former worker was diagnosed with the disease. The resort didn't specify yesterday how many of its 1,000 employees have been tested but said that everyone who had been in contact with the former golf maintenance worker has received a skin test. No other active cases have been found.

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UC Irvine Extension Explores Online Integrative Wellness Within a Spa Environment

University of California, Irvine Extension, the pioneer of the first “Spa and Hospitality Management” certificate program on the West Coast, also the first and only fully-online certificate program of its kind in the United States – announced today a new online elective course, “Integrative Wellness Within a Spa Environment: Rituals of Healing.” The course will be taught strictly online for the first time and take place March 31-June 13.

Students will gain a different and broader psychological perspective of the spa experience and be able to identify integrative wellness current trends in spa programs. Potential and existing spa owners, directors and managers will learn to identify the biopsychosocial elements of rituals and their applicability to the modern spa environment.

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Having a Little Work Done (at the Mall)

He snickered when he first saw a medical spa offering Botox and laser hair-removal services on a visit to a Las Vegas mall in 2002. He laughed at the thought of someone — anyone — shopping for the latest fashions, grabbing a bite to eat and then, oh yeah, strolling in for a quick shot of Botox to zap out a nasty wrinkle.

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Home, Home on the Spa

“We’re always getting massages,” Troy Coughlin said, “or my wife is getting her nails done. We’re totally pampered by the people at the spa ”  Mr. Coughlin, a professional drag racer from Delaware and Ohio and his wife, Julie, are among the many who in recent years have bought vacation homes at spa resorts. Spa-centered residential communities are springing up on both coasts and many points in between, giving buyers easy access to spa services and opportunities to have equity in their own houses or condominiums.

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Report: Hotel Spa Profits Rise

A special analysis of hotel spa department operating statements conducted by PKF Hospitality Research (PKF-HR) finds that a 9.7 percent increase in hotel spa revenues resulted in an 11.3 percent gain in spa department profits in 2006. . . . These observations come from the recently released inaugural edition of Trends in the Hotel Spa Industry published by PKF Hospitality Research, an affiliate of PKF Consulting (PKF-C). The report is believed to be the most comprehensive analysis of hotel spa department financial performance in the industry.

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An Organic Spa Greens New York

As the owner of Priti, the only all-organic spa specializing in luxurious manicures and pedicures in New York City, Australian native Kim D’Amato is at the forefront of a natural beauty revolution. While it’s easier than ever to pop in for a quick manicure and pedicure (or facial or eyebrow wax) at one of the thousands of salons lining the streets of the five boroughs, D’Amato is the only one who has taken a close look at the ingredients contained in the average bottle of nail polish and decided to take a different approach.

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Historic Riverboat Hotel in California Seeks Day Spa Tenant

The Delta King Hotel in Sacramento, California, is interested in leasing space on the Delta King Riverboat Hotel to a Day Spa tenant.  Interested applicants who own or operate an existing Day Spa and/or are considering a relocation or additional location, should contact the hotel, below.

Ken A. Millikin
Rooms Division Manager
Delta King Hotel
kmillikin@deltaking.com

Treatment Spotlight: Neti Pots

Seeking the advice of a masseuse and acupuncturist, Gaby Hakman, a professional chef with dry sinuses, was urged to try something she didn’t even want to think about: A Neti Pot.  “I’d heard about it before. I just kept thinking, ‘No way, that’s gross.’”  But this fall, Ms. Hakman relented.

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Doctor excited about product said to enhance eyelash appearance

Bit by the entrepreneurial bug, a Scottsdale doctor is getting into the ultra-competitive cosmetics business with a new product designed to stimulate the appearance of people with less-than-lush eyelashes.

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Pay Per Click Plans For Massage Schools and Day Spas

Visionary Search, Inc., a local Atlanta search engine marketing agency specializing in pay per click marketing, today announced growth plans which include focusing on massage schools, massage clinics and day spa facilities.

With expertise in both the pay per click and the massage industries, CEO Melissa Fontenot who is also a Certified Massage Therapist continues to grow her internet marketing business by focusing on an industry that is very close to her heart -- massage. Understanding the benefits of massage definitely keeps her aware of how important it is to promote this invaluable service.

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Groundbreaking Spa Communities

The spa residential community is going to take a great leap forward in the next few years. Until now, spa communities have mostly come about through retrofitting. Spas added residences (such as Utah’s Red Mountain and Wisconsin’s Sundara), and developments (mostly centered on golf) added spas. In the new communities, the key word is integration - not just the spa but the larger idea of wellness is built in, so to speak.

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Financial Management Secrets Of The Spa Industry

Reflecting for a moment on the world of business- in any business- there are always tricks of the trade that can provide quick paths to solving daily business challenges and even turning pitfalls into win falls, and the spa business is no exception.

Just as you have your own trade secrets and methodologies for building your businesses, so do the spa industry experts whose job it is to educate and guide you with the newest trends, as well as proven practices.

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Teens Battle Acne at the Spa

People often think of facials as something to do before a special occasion, like their wedding. Some may indulge occasionally, especially if they receive a gift certificate. Or never. Many remain facial virgins.

But a growing number of teenagers - both boys and girls - are getting facials as part of a healthy approach to skin care, or to address the kinds of skin problems teens used to entrust to dermatologists.

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Spa Expo Gets a Makeover

America’s most successful spa, resort and medical spa conference and expo events are getting a makeover. Formerly the Spa & Resort and Medical Spa Expo and Conference, the new Spa & Resort Expo and Conference and the Medical Aesthetics Conference and Expo are set to reveal their new look and feel at the Los Angeles Convention Center, February 23-25, 2008.

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Unregulated Medi Spa Dangers

Fabiola DePaula stretched out on a cot in a Framingham basement and expected to wake up with a little less cellulite. Instead, the 24-year-old never woke up. The unlicensed couple who performed her liposuction ran a roving medical spa, giving botox treatments, chemical peels and surgeries in people's homes.

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Institute of Spa Management Offers Distance Education

The ISM Spa Management Program offers self-paced, distance education, allowing students the ability to keep a full-time job and still study towards a rewarding spa industry career. Payment plans and scholarship opportunities are available for all students.

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Luxury Travel and Lifestyle Trends for 2008

The New York Times recently documented the lives and beauty budgets of three women in different parts of the country. One, a real estate agent from Los Angeles, admitted she regularly spent several thousand dollars monthly just for “maintenance,” just to “be in the game.” Lifestyle trends such as this fueled the spa and medical tourism boom in 2007. Spas are going well beyond the dedicated spa outlet or the home spa, and branching out into mobile spas, “macho” spas for men, and even pets.

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The Medical Spa - The Next Generation of the Spa Industry

Until recently Western Medicine has failed to recognize the healing benefits of the Spa and Fitness Industry- With the arrival of the latest trend, the Medical Spa, the two fields have converged and caused a veritable explosion, making this new trend the wave of the future.

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Caring for the footweary homeless

At Victoria’s Our Place sanctuary for street people, and Island Medical Program student Sarah Peters gently washes, massages and salves a woman’s life-worn and needle-punctured feet that are resting in her lap.

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Indiana Day Spa Must Repay Clients for Gift Card Purchases

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter announced today that “Serenity” Salon & Day Spa of Columbus will pay more than $10,000 to nearly 100 consumers for allegedly selling gift cards for services that could not be redeemed.

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Nailing Down a Health Problem in Massachusetts

With fines on the rise, Massachusetts is cracking down on unsanitary hair and nail salons. State inspectors ticketed one of every four hair and nail salons they visited this year for violations ranging from unsanitary conditions to the employment of unlicensed technicians.

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Expiration Date for a Mani / Pedi Gift Card Raises Problem in New Jersey

New Jersey law requires that all gift cards and gift certificates sold in the state be good for a minimum of two years. Atlantic County Consumer Affairs Director Bob Howie is embarking on a public education campaign to help smaller business owners to come into compliance with this state law, which became final in the early part of 2006.

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Competition in medical spa market favors doctors

Healthy competition continues to heat up the medical spa market as more players are offering services ranging from cosmetic fillers like Botox to weight reduction procedures such as Lipodissolve.

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Medi Spa Laser Disaster

It was an unfamiliar sensation to Jill Wright - like a hot cigarette being put to her face.  “It was a level of eight on a scale from one to 10,” she said of her pain. “When I researched it, I found out it was a laser burn.”

The Bowling Green native, who owns Jill Write Spa for Nails, said she went to a local medi-spa in March to get some broken capillaries around her nose and chin zapped with a laser treatment - something she had done twice before at a different facility.

This time she didn’t get what she expected.

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