Spa Opportunities 10Th November 2017 Issue
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spaFind great staff TM opportunitiesA SPA BUSINESS PUBLICATION 10 - 23 NOVEMBER 2017 ISSUE 280 Daily news & jobs: www.spaopportunities.com Peninsula Hot Springs expansion details revealed Australia’s Peninsula Hot Springs terraces that provide space for (PHS) is planning a major expansion up to 580 people to watch plays, focused on story-driven experiences, talks and concerts, while another including an open-air amphitheatre 120 can listen from the pools. with seven pools and seating for 700 “We’ll be providing entertainment people, Spa Opportunities can reveal. and education from the Amphitheatre New offerings will include: an Bathing Bowl as well as the Food educational building; sauna rooms; Bowl,” said Davidson. “These are a deep therapy pool; a fire and ice two unique, open-air spaces for bathing area; a ‘Food Bowl’ area arts, culture, health and wellbeing.” with on-site agriculture and picnic This will also help with capacity areas where guests are invited to issues, said Davidson: “Demand “eat yourself to good health”; and has been rising – half the time we’re the amphitheatre which forms the at full capacity and we can’t allow centrepiece of the arts and culture Founder Charles Davidson is creating open-air spaces for arts and culture additional people into the facilities.” area. Plans are also underway to add In December, the first stage of the 126 bedrooms – a first for the hot springs. story-driven – we want them to be places where Food Bowl area – a three-acre (1.2 hectare) “The purpose of our business is to guests can be engaged in the experience.” terraced garden – will be completed. The create experiences where our visitors The new arts and culture area will include garden will be used for growing vegetables, can relax in nature and connect with the seven pools with underwater speakers, herbs, teas, mushrooms and medicinal deep well of their being,” Peninsula Hot allowing 70 people to float in the water and plants, and the produce will be used in the Springs founder Charles Davidson told Spa listen to talks and music while they look cafes on site and sold in the retail outlets. Opportunities. “Many of our experiences are up at the sky. The amphitheatre has seated Details: http://lei.sr?a=7c4X9_S Hilton takes eforea Six Senses to open spa to Kazakhstan first resort in Israel Hilton Hotels & Resorts has entered the Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas will booming Kazakhstan tourism market open a resort in the Negev Desert in with the opening of a 253-bedroom late 2018 – its first property in Israel. hotel in the country’s capital city. Nestled into a dramatic cliff with panoramic The Hilton Astana will target both views of the desert, the Six Senses Shaharut local and international travelers with will be located in the small community of a focus on wellness, with facilities Shaharut, which translates as ‘the moment including a large eforea-branded just before dawn’. It will feature 58 suites and luxury spa. Covering an area of more villas, including a three-bedroom retreat. The resort will be located in the Shaharut community than 1,900sq m (20,451sq ft), the eforea The architecture of the resort has been spa at Hilton Astana is one of the city’s designed to integrate the desert topography the clarity of the starry sky. Many furnishing largest spas, featuring nine treatment while preserving its natural terrain. The villas elements of the resort will be sourced from rooms, a sauna area with a number will be built from, and inspired by, local rocks a partnership with local community artisans. of saunas and steamrooms, a Turkish and pigments, and the landscape will utilise A Six Senses Spa will offer a layered bath and an indoor swimming pool. regional cacti and indigenous desert blooms. approach to wellness and will include the Details: http://lei.sr?a=Y9Z3s_S Exterior lighting will be designed to avoid Six Senses Integrated Wellness programme. light pollution at night in order to preserve Continued on back cover Magazine sign up at PDF for iPad, Kindle & smart phone Online on digital turning pages Twitter follow us: GET spaopportunities.com/subs spaopportunities.com/pdf spaopportunities.com/digital @spaopps @spaoppsjobs SPA OPPS Job board live job updates Ezine sign up for weekly updates Instant sign up for instant alerts RSS sign up for job & news feeds spaopportunities.com spaopportunities.com/ezine at spaopportunities.com/instant spaopportunities.com/rss spa opportunities news DAILY NEWS, JOBS, TRAINING & TENDERS www.spaopportunities.com CONTACT US ‘Trolls and elves’ inspire glacier spa The Leisure Media Company Portmill House, Portmill Lane, Tales of trolls, elves, monsters Hitchin, Herts SG5 1DJ, UK and invisible men roaming Tel: +44 (0)1462 431385 Iceland’s majestic volcanic Fax: +44 (0)1462 433909 landscape have inspired the e-mail: please use contacts' design of a proposed spa [email protected] and wellness retreat located next to a geothermal lagoon. Subscriptions Architecture practice Denise Adams +44 (0)1462 471930 Johannes Torpe Studio have [email protected] drawn on the mysterious topography of caves, craters Editor and moss-covered lava fields Liz Terry +44 (0)1462 431385 found in the Snæfellsness peninsula to devise a spa that Managing editor will be soaked in mythology, Jane Kitchen +44 (0)1462 471929 storytelling and nature. Johannes Torpe Studio’s design draws on local, Icelandic myths The region is home to a Head of news 700,000-year-old glacier-capped stratovolcano, towards enlightenment, within the surrounds Rob Gibson +44 (0)1462 471902 which famously starred in Jules Verne’s 1864 of a 150-bedroom hotel and spa complex. science fiction classicJourney to the Centre of At the heart of the resort will be an Reporters the Earth as the passageway into a subterranean extensive spa, in which guests will voyage Tom Anstey +44 (0)1462 471916 world. It is also known from the Icelandic through emotional stages – contemplation, Kim Megson +44 (0)1462 471915 saga of Baroar Snæfellsas, a half-man– exposure, confrontation, clarity and half-troll who left the chaotic world of men enlightenment – much like Baroar did. Tom Walker +44 (0)1462 471934 behind to live in solitude inside the glacier. Each stage will be articulated through Publisher Now the volcano could provide the backdrop different expressions of Icelandic nature, for The Red Mountain Resort, an 800sq m including wind tunnels, fire baths, rain Astrid Ros +44 (0)1462 471911 (8,600sq ft) spa retreat that will take guests curtains, ice pools and pitch black slides. Assistant product editor on their own version of Baroar’s journey Details: http://lei.sr?a=Q8E3q_S Lauren Heath-Jones +44 (0)1462 471927 Design Ed Gallagher +44 (0)1905 20198 Minor introduces villa-based resort Web team Thailand-based operator Michael Paramore +44 (0)1462 471926 Minor Hotels is to introduce Dean Fox +44 (0)1462 471900 a new, villa-based resort concept on the Thai island Emma Harris +44 (0)1462 471921 of Koh Samui next year. Tim Nash +44 (0)1462 471917 To be managed under Minor’s Avani Hotels and Circulation manager Resorts lifestyle brand, Michael Emmerson +44 (0)1462 471932 the new resort will house a total of 33 pool villas and 25 traditional rooms. Subscribe to Spa Opportunities: Due to open in September Online: www.leisuresubs.com 2018, Avani Sunset Coast Email: [email protected] Samui Resort & Villas will Tel: +44 (0)1462 471913 feature a large AvaniSpa. The new resort will house a total of 33 pool villas and a large AvaniSpa Annual subscription rates are UK £20, While exact details are yet Rest of world £26, students (UK) £13. to be unveiled, the spa will offer guests a jet lag. Balance treatments aim to ground Spa Opportunities is published fortnightly by personalised focus on treatment journeys. the body, mind and mood, while Calm The Leisure Media Company Limited, Portmill House, Portmill Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG5 1DJ, UK The views expressed in this “The spa will provide a tranquil treatments are designed to release muscle publication are those of the author and do not necessarily represent approach to wellness, focused on guests’ tension, relieve anxiety and recharge the those of the publisher The Leisure Media Co Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored needs rather than offering standard mind, and Purify treatments are for detox. in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by means, treatments,” a spokesperson for Avani said. The AvaniSpa will also offer daily yoga electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recorded or otherwise, Therapists will conduct a consultation classes and an AvaniFit-branded health without the prior permission of the copyright holder, Cybertrek Ltd. Printed by Preview Cromatic Ltd. Distributed by Royal Mail prior to recommending one of four treatment club. The opening is part of Minor’s plans Group Ltd and Whistl Ltd in the UK and Total Mail Ltd globally. options: Boost, Balance, Calm and Purify. to expand the Avani brand across emerging ©Cybertrek Ltd 2017. 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