Interview: Lee David Stephens
Thai-based management company
MSpa runs 44 spas with 450 staff. The
General Manager talks to Katie Barnes
about a recent deal with Per Aquum
and its rapid expansion
Interview: Kathryn Moore
MSpa’s operations director is creating
a brand new wellness concept and a
fast track spa manager programme
Company Profile Promotion: GOCO Hospitality
After just four years of operation GOCO Hospitality is regarded as a global leader
in wellness hospitality segment of the industry. With 22 projects on its books,
spanning three continents, we look at what underpins the company’s success
Company profile promotion: Comfort Zone
The Comfort Zone spa brand has been newly revamped and revitalised to better communicate its core offerings as a natural, scientific and soul-centred skincare and lifestyle brand
Green: Being green
Ecocert’s new Being label is the first
public-facing green certification for
spa operations, eco-friendly
Promotional Feature: Part 4 - Pre-Opening
Opening a spa successfully is all about planning. Gary
Henkin, president of WTS and Doug Chambers, principal
of Blu Spas, share their experience of pre-opening
Company Profile Promotion: Aromatherapy Associates
Global product company Aromatherapy Associates knows how
to make treatments and retail work in a spa environment and
partners with operators to make a real point of difference
Industry survey: Price to pay
A GSWS report on global therapist pay focuses on differing salary composition, benefit and commission structures. Lisa Starr takes a closer look
Spa Retreat: Running on juice
Juice Master founder Jason Vale tells
Kate Cracknell about its retreats and
how juicing can help prevent disease
Interview: Wee Wei Ling
Neena Dhillon meets the founder of
St Gregory: the spa brand owned by Pan
Pacific that’s just opened a wellness
floor in Singapore’s ‘hotel in a garden’
Research: Moving target
A McKinsey study highlights the fast-changing
spending patterns of China’s
luxury consumers. Leonor Stanton
finds out what this means for spas
Advertisement Promotion: A gift from Ez-Runner...
Vouchers can be used as a stand-alone system integrated into your website or added as a module of Ez-Runner’s leisure management software to control your spa facility
Carita focuses on haircare Carita has ventured into haircare with its new product and treatment system Haute Beauté. The system focuses on personalised haircare consultations and treatments along with new scalp and hair products including shampoos, conditioners and elixirs to treat specific scalp and hair issues such as unruly hair or dry scalp. It’s already launched in France and Japan, and will debut in Thailand next March.
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Carita focuses on haircare
Pure simpler range by AW Lake AW Lake has developed the Pure skin, hair and bodycare range. The skincare line comprises a Basic face cream or gel plus Supercharged serums, containing bio-active ingredients for specific skin concerns. Made with natural ingredients, plant essences and botanical extracts with high concentrations of bio-active ingredients to target specific skin concerns, it allows users to customise their skincare.
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Pure simpler range by AW Lake
Cellulift.Pro machine by Thalgo The Cellulift.Pro machine is part of Thalgo’s new anti-cellulite Slim and Go treatment range. Using skin lipo-stimulation techniques, it is designed to smooth, reshape, and firm specific areas of the body. Three levels of intensity are available depending on the amount of cellulite a client has and the machine comes with three attachments for therapists to tailor treatments for the knees, ankles, and face.
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Cellulift.Pro machine by Thalgo
Drink supplement for skincare French wellbeing company Evo2lution has developed a seaweed-based cosmetic drink concentrate for spas. Reinforce Skin Firmness is a liquid supplement designed to complement the efficiency of all facial treatments and skincare regimens. It’s part of Evo2lution’s nutricosmeceutic concept and is a series of 15ml vials of skin nutrient concentrates that can be taken over 14 or 28 days.
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Drink supplement for skincare
Russie Blanche expands range Russie Blanche has launched two face and body products. Its latest addition, forming part of its Siberian Petals face range, is the Balancing Mask with Plants, which uses Siberian ginseng and golden root plus green clay. Meanwhile, the Banya Hydra-rose Firming body cream contains caffeine concentrate with Siberian ginseng and golden root, plus rose, geranium patchouli and chamomile.
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Russie Blanche expands range
Purexpert concept for oily skin Purexpert by Germaine De Capuccini is a new skincare concept for oily and normal skin. It incorporates a cleanse, renew and hydrate programme and products include the Purifying Mattifying Foam, Refiner Essence and Oil-Free Hydro-Mattifying Gel-Cream. Ingredients in the foam comprise prebiotic, manuka concentrate and willow extract. In total, there’s one treatment and nine homecare items.
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Purexpert concept for oily skin
Luxsit’s organic facial mist The Enrich Hydrating Facial Mist, by Swedish-based natural product company Luxsit, is designed to refresh and hydrate the skin on a daily basis. The mist can be used with or without make-up to help reduce fine lines and dryness, and also protect the skin from external environmental damage. Ingredients include birch tree sap, cucumber extract, and beta glucan from Avena sativa oats.
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Luxsit’s organic facial mist
Telomere technology in skincare Aromatherapy Associates has introduced a fresh skincare line – the Rose Infinity collection. Comprising a serum, moisturiser and eye cream, the range incorporates telomere cell research and technology. Telomore cells are part of our chromosomes which relate to skin tissue degeneration and ageing (see sb13/1 p54). The products use hydrolyzed soy and yeast proteins designed to protect and rebuild telomeres.
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Telomere technology in skincare
Voya’s Get Glowing clay mask Voya has revealed its Get Glowing clay mask which has been created to help purify the skin to leave a brighter complexion. The mask contains a blend of rosemary and organic seaweed to detoxify, along with eucalyptus to eliminate oils and toxins, plus palmarosa, lavender and baobab oil. The cooling mask also contains kaolin clay to help reduce the production of sebum in summer.
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Voya’s Get Glowing clay mask
The Gemya Evo bed by Lemi The Gemya Evo spa bed by Italian design company Lemi has been developed with exceptional comfort in mind, and comes with a face hole and cover, for ease of-use for various types of massages. It features integrated adjustable armrests and a variable-tilt headrest. The armrests are designed to provide more comfort while the customer is lying down. The bed can be used for both face and body treatments.
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The Gemya Evo bed by Lemi
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Interview: Lee David Stephens
Thai-based management company
MSpa runs 44 spas with 450 staff. The
General Manager talks to Katie Barnes
about a recent deal with Per Aquum
and its rapid expansion
Interview: Kathryn Moore
MSpa’s operations director is creating
a brand new wellness concept and a
fast track spa manager programme
Company Profile Promotion: GOCO Hospitality
After just four years of operation GOCO Hospitality is regarded as a global leader
in wellness hospitality segment of the industry. With 22 projects on its books,
spanning three continents, we look at what underpins the company’s success
Company profile promotion: Comfort Zone
The Comfort Zone spa brand has been newly revamped and revitalised to better communicate its core offerings as a natural, scientific and soul-centred skincare and lifestyle brand
Green: Being green
Ecocert’s new Being label is the first
public-facing green certification for
spa operations, eco-friendly
Promotional Feature: Part 4 - Pre-Opening
Opening a spa successfully is all about planning. Gary
Henkin, president of WTS and Doug Chambers, principal
of Blu Spas, share their experience of pre-opening
Company Profile Promotion: Aromatherapy Associates
Global product company Aromatherapy Associates knows how
to make treatments and retail work in a spa environment and
partners with operators to make a real point of difference
Industry survey: Price to pay
A GSWS report on global therapist pay focuses on differing salary composition, benefit and commission structures. Lisa Starr takes a closer look
Spa Retreat: Running on juice
Juice Master founder Jason Vale tells
Kate Cracknell about its retreats and
how juicing can help prevent disease
Interview: Wee Wei Ling
Neena Dhillon meets the founder of
St Gregory: the spa brand owned by Pan
Pacific that’s just opened a wellness
floor in Singapore’s ‘hotel in a garden’
Research: Moving target
A McKinsey study highlights the fast-changing
spending patterns of China’s
luxury consumers. Leonor Stanton
finds out what this means for spas
Advertisement Promotion: A gift from Ez-Runner...
Vouchers can be used as a stand-alone system integrated into your website or added as a module of Ez-Runner’s leisure management software to control your spa facility
Carita focuses on haircare Carita has ventured into haircare with its new product and treatment system Haute Beauté. The system focuses on personalised haircare consultations and treatments along with new scalp and hair products including shampoos, conditioners and elixirs to treat specific scalp and hair issues such as unruly hair or dry scalp. It’s already launched in France and Japan, and will debut in Thailand next March.
spa-kit.net keyword carita
Carita focuses on haircare
Pure simpler range by AW Lake AW Lake has developed the Pure skin, hair and bodycare range. The skincare line comprises a Basic face cream or gel plus Supercharged serums, containing bio-active ingredients for specific skin concerns. Made with natural ingredients, plant essences and botanical extracts with high concentrations of bio-active ingredients to target specific skin concerns, it allows users to customise their skincare.
spa-kit.net keywords aw lake
Pure simpler range by AW Lake
Cellulift.Pro machine by Thalgo The Cellulift.Pro machine is part of Thalgo’s new anti-cellulite Slim and Go treatment range. Using skin lipo-stimulation techniques, it is designed to smooth, reshape, and firm specific areas of the body. Three levels of intensity are available depending on the amount of cellulite a client has and the machine comes with three attachments for therapists to tailor treatments for the knees, ankles, and face.
spa-kit.net keyword thalgo
Cellulift.Pro machine by Thalgo
Drink supplement for skincare French wellbeing company Evo2lution has developed a seaweed-based cosmetic drink concentrate for spas. Reinforce Skin Firmness is a liquid supplement designed to complement the efficiency of all facial treatments and skincare regimens. It’s part of Evo2lution’s nutricosmeceutic concept and is a series of 15ml vials of skin nutrient concentrates that can be taken over 14 or 28 days.
spa-kit.net keyword evo2lution
Drink supplement for skincare
Russie Blanche expands range Russie Blanche has launched two face and body products. Its latest addition, forming part of its Siberian Petals face range, is the Balancing Mask with Plants, which uses Siberian ginseng and golden root plus green clay. Meanwhile, the Banya Hydra-rose Firming body cream contains caffeine concentrate with Siberian ginseng and golden root, plus rose, geranium patchouli and chamomile.
spa-kit.net keywords russie blanche
Russie Blanche expands range
Purexpert concept for oily skin Purexpert by Germaine De Capuccini is a new skincare concept for oily and normal skin. It incorporates a cleanse, renew and hydrate programme and products include the Purifying Mattifying Foam, Refiner Essence and Oil-Free Hydro-Mattifying Gel-Cream. Ingredients in the foam comprise prebiotic, manuka concentrate and willow extract. In total, there’s one treatment and nine homecare items.
spa-kit.net keyword germaine
Purexpert concept for oily skin
Luxsit’s organic facial mist The Enrich Hydrating Facial Mist, by Swedish-based natural product company Luxsit, is designed to refresh and hydrate the skin on a daily basis. The mist can be used with or without make-up to help reduce fine lines and dryness, and also protect the skin from external environmental damage. Ingredients include birch tree sap, cucumber extract, and beta glucan from Avena sativa oats.
spa-kit.net keyword luxsit
Luxsit’s organic facial mist
Telomere technology in skincare Aromatherapy Associates has introduced a fresh skincare line – the Rose Infinity collection. Comprising a serum, moisturiser and eye cream, the range incorporates telomere cell research and technology. Telomore cells are part of our chromosomes which relate to skin tissue degeneration and ageing (see sb13/1 p54). The products use hydrolyzed soy and yeast proteins designed to protect and rebuild telomeres.
spa-kit.net keywords aromatherapy associates
Telomere technology in skincare
Voya’s Get Glowing clay mask Voya has revealed its Get Glowing clay mask which has been created to help purify the skin to leave a brighter complexion. The mask contains a blend of rosemary and organic seaweed to detoxify, along with eucalyptus to eliminate oils and toxins, plus palmarosa, lavender and baobab oil. The cooling mask also contains kaolin clay to help reduce the production of sebum in summer.
spa-kit.net keyword voya
Voya’s Get Glowing clay mask
The Gemya Evo bed by Lemi The Gemya Evo spa bed by Italian design company Lemi has been developed with exceptional comfort in mind, and comes with a face hole and cover, for ease of-use for various types of massages. It features integrated adjustable armrests and a variable-tilt headrest. The armrests are designed to provide more comfort while the customer is lying down. The bed can be used for both face and body treatments.
OMA has completed a major transformation of New York's New Museum, creating a larger
cultural campus that combines expanded exhibition spaces with learning, performance,
hospitality and public programming.
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Mansion has created a new destination that combines live magic, immersive theatre, dining and
private membership under one roof.
The Montana Historical Society has officially celebrated the opening of its new Montana
Heritage
Center, a US$107 million (£79 million, €92 million) destination that combines immersive
storytelling with cutting-edge audiovisual technology to bring the sta
San Antonio Zoo has reported a US$283 million economic impact for 2025, following a decade-
long transformation programme that has seen almost US$200 million invested into the Texas
attraction.
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progressing, with the project set to transform the attraction into a global centre for reef
education and conservation.
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Capital has made a binding, fully financed
€1 billion
offer to acquire Pierre and Vacances SA, the European holiday resort operator behind the
continental European Center Parcs business.
Disney has reaffirmed its commitment to investing US$30 billion in its US parks and cruise
business by 2033, using new America250 celebrations to underline the role its attractions play
in supporting jobs, tourism and economic growth.
Expo 2030 Riyadh is being planned as a permanent visitor destination, with organisers
confirming the six-million-square-metre site will become a Global Village after the event closes.
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creating a new attractions business spanning two of the country's largest visitor destinations.
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