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. In response to a growing target audience segment, services and products tailored to men are on the increase. Additionally, the U.S. has seen a number of spas specifically built for the men’s market, so we spoke with some owners and operators in this special niche to see how business is...

Here are some of our key observations, looking back at 2010 Cost cutting was a way of life, but we saw the limitations of that approach in hotel spas especially. There's only so much you can cut before folks start to question your price point. One trend we noted is that hotel spas are being given more voice in the way they market to day and past guests. Hotels have stopped "tolerating" their day guest segment and started actively courting...

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: Old guard passes the baton to a new generation Throughout Luxurydom the founders, family members and their trusted lieutenants who built the grand luxury behemoths and boutiques alike have begun to retire, to sell, and consider family legacy and philanthropy. The new generation of leaders who will inherit these brands must not seek...

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...