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#SpaCast: Design Trends of Spa Websites

Hotels and spas tend to go together. As shown by some of the examples featured in this article, spas are often one of several amenities offered besides standard hotel rooms. As a result, the spa is often a micro-site within the hotel or resort page. While some of the trends to hotel design carry over (e.g. highly visual photography), the target audience is more specific than that of the average hotel.

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#SpaCast: Intelligent Spas Publishes Fifth Spa Study for #Australia

Intelligent Spas’ fifth Spa Benchmark Report on the Australian spa market presents an extensive collection of financial statistics including breakdowns of key performance indicators by day spas, hotel spas and resort spas. The new research found over 600 spas are operating in Australia and are expected to generate AUD500 million (approximately USD465 million) in revenue during 2009, representing a 17% increase compared to 2008.

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#SpaCast: US medical spas facing state legislation

Medical spas in the US and elsewhere have increased in numbers and are popular as medical tourism destinations. Several countries have reported problems of medical spas undertaking medical procedures which neither the spa nor the staff are qualified to do. Unfortunately, this reflects badly on the majority who are professional. They have tended to fall between the gaps in legislation, but one of the first countries seeking to remedy that is the USA. Nationally, the number of medical spas around the country has grown from 500 in 2004 to 2,500 today. If this growth rate continues, more states will follow the four who are preparing regulations, and almost every sate has discussed the idea.

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Are medical spas a fast-growing but undefined industry?

...[A]s the medical spa industry continues to expand at a breakneck pace, oversight of these facilities is lagging behind. New cosmetic procedures and devices are increasingly blurring the line between the practice of medicine and the field of cosmetology — and putting some patients in the hands of less-qualified individuals.

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RockResorts Innovative Program to Recycle Hotel Soap

High in the Colorado Rockies a life-saving necessity is making its way to the island nation of Haiti and abroad. By partnering with Clean the World, Inc., RockResorts is collecting barely-used soap and shampoo from its collection of 8 hotels and enabling the Orlando charity to provide the much-needed supplies to needy people in homeless shelters and impoverished countries around the world.

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SpaCast Media Lead: Seeking Spas with Culinary Classes

SpaCast Media Leads are designed to gather information from spa professionals (day spas, spa resorts, stay spas, spa retreats, medical spas, destination spas, and wellness providers) in response to press, blogger, and travel writer inquiries submitted to Spa Index Media dba SpaCast. 

The Inquiry:

• Does your day spa, spa resort, inn, retreat, hotel or lodge offer cooking and culinary instruction?

To Respond:

• Comment to this post and include your spa resort's name, location (city/state/country), details regarding culinary programs, and URL to primary website.    Comments will NOT be displayed.

Deadline:

• December 31, 2009

SpaCast Media Lead: Seeking Spas with Rasul Chambers

SpaCast Media Leads are designed to gather information from spa professionals (day spas, spa resorts, stay spas, spa retreats, medical spas, destination spas, and wellness providers) in response to press, blogger, and travel writer inquiries submitted to Spa Index Media dba SpaCast. 

The Inquiry:

• Does your day spa, spa resort, inn, retreat, hotel or lodge offer a Rasul Chamber?

To Respond:

• Comment to this post and include your spa resort's name, location (city/state/country), details regarding Rasul Chamber and Treatments, and URL to primary website.  Comments will NOT be displayed.

Deadline:

• December 15, 2009

SpaCast Media Lead: Seeking Spa Resorts with RV Access

SpaCast Media Leads are designed to gather information from spa professionals (day spas, spa resorts, stay spas, spa retreats, medical spas, destination spas, and wellness providers) in response to press inquiries submitted to Spa Index Media dba SpaCast. 

The Inquiry:

• Does your spa resort, inn, retreat, hotel or lodge provide RV access or an RV park for guests?

To Respond:

• Comment to this post and include your spa resort's name, location (city/state/country), details regarding RV access, and URL to primary website.   Comments will NOT be displayed.

Deadline:

• Open

Pennsylvania woman continues spree of thefts of spa services, dining

With the holidays approaching, new client marketing is ticked up a notch, schedules become more hectic and employees may be harried. How does your salon and spa prevent theft of services?

Tia Hassler has allegedly had her brows waxed, eaten Thai food, quaffed cocktails and gotten a pedicure in the last two weeks without paying a dime.

via www.lehighvalleylive.com

Quail Lodge Hotel & Spa Carmel California closed doors today

CARMEL, Calif. -- The Quail Lodge Hotel and Spa will be officially closing its doors on Monday. Back in September, owners said the 97-room hotel had been losing money for the last eight years.As a result of the closure, more than 100 employees are being laid off.The resort's restaurant and golf course are still open. 

via www.ksbw.com