Industry insider Jeremy McCarthy shares reflections on the female side of spa.
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Spa Business Articles: Trends
A Man’s World
A google search of “men’s spa services” quickly returns results numbering more than six million, and, according to an ISPA survey, 45 percent of spas offer packages tailored to men
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What Successful Survivors are Doing
What traits do Spa Survivors share? Peggy Borgman gives her year in review and the ways savvy spa operators are staying afloat.
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Luxury Institute Presents Key Luxury Retail Trends
The Luxury Institute has compiled a list of the top luxury retail trends. According to Milton Pedraza, CEO for the Luxury Institute, the main trends will be:
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Reinventing the Traditional Day Spa Model
I do think that when you look at traditional stand-alone day spas we are beginning to see flattening and it is becoming harder for them to make profits. The huge increase in the numbers of day spas has saturated some markets and now many traditional day spas are facing large numbers of competitors. These competitors include other day spas, resort, and hotel spas which are open to day guests (almost all of them), medical spas, and some new players like the highly discounted "no-frills" establishments, fitness clubs adding better spas, etc.
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Spa Finder's Top Ten Spa Trends for 2007
Sleep - A New Dawn in Spa Health
Exercise, good nutrition and stress management have long been the domain of spa programs. Now healthy sleep is being added to the curriculum, inspired by the emerging field of sleep medicine, which has revealed that sleep has a profound effect on appearance, weight, and well-being—and that we, as a nation, are dangerously sleep deprived.
Look for hotels and resorts to put even greater emphasis on creating ideal sleep environments through minimal light and sound, aromatherapy, ultra-relaxing spa treatments, etc.
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