Spa Business issue 4 2011 - TourismInsights

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company is to open
its first Reserve property in the Americas
region with a new 115-guestroom resort at
Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, in late 2012.
The 50-acre (20-hectare) resort will feature
a spa set in 5-acres (2-hectares) of landscaped
grounds, which will include male and female
‘purification gardens’ with tropical pools,
steamrooms and outdoor Vichy areas.
There will also be 10 glass-walled treatment
pavilions with soaking tubs and massage
tables and two double treehouse treatment
platforms in the forest canopy. Organic spa
products will be made from native plants
grown onsite. A beauty salon, relaxation
rooms and a 8,000sq ft (743sq m) fitness and
wellness centre complete the offer.
Reserve is Ritz-Carlton’s new ultra luxury
brand and its first property opened in
early 2010 in Krabi, Thailand.
Indian spa management
company Orient Spa Ltd
has secured an agreement to
offer spa services on two of
the country’s luxury trains –
the Palace on Wheels and the
Royal Rajasthan on Wheels.
Both of the trains have a
dedicated ‘Royal Spa carriage’
in which the services will be
provided. Sanjana Gupta, the
business head at Orient Spa
says: “We have put together a
plethora of Indian and international
therapies that are
compatible with the train
movements, combined with
beauty services. However,
special thrust will be on ayurveda as foreigners
are increasingly turning towards it for health
and healing requirements.”
Orient Spa Ltd is the spa and wellness
division of the Neesa Group – a Indian hospitality-focused
company. It operates seven
The trains will have carriages designed as treatments rooms
spas for Cambay Hotels & Resorts – Neesa’s
hotel brand – across India.
Meanwhile, Orient Spa has also confirmed
its plan to open a fourth spa academy in the
National Capital Region, to add to three existing
schools in Kerala, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.
This is Hilton’s sixth eforea spa opening
Hilton Worldwide has unveiled the au$700m
(us$675m, €505m, £434m) Hilton Surfers
Paradise complex on Australia’s Gold Coast.
The global hotel chain said the property
is its first in Australia to offer both guestrooms
(169) and holiday residences (250)
with facilities also including the purposebuilt
eforea: spa at Hilton.
The spa has seven treatment rooms
including one with a Vichy shower for wet
treatments and two to host people spa-ing
in pairs. Products are by Peter Thomas Roth,
Li’tya, VitaMan and Kerstin Florian.
The spa is complemented by a 1,500sq m
(16,146sq ft) deck with four pools, a sauna
and a number of dining concepts.
This is the sixth eforea spa for Hilton, following
the launch of the in-house branded
concept in 2010 (see sb10/3 p28).
New York consumer skincare
group Kiehl’s has revealed its
first-ever spa facility on the
Upper East Side of the US city.
Sited on the second floor of
a new ‘Kiehl’s Since 1851’ retail
store, Spa 1851 is to offer skin,
body and hair treatments for
both men and women.
The new spa has a separate
entrance to the retail store
and features a waiting lounge,
three treatment rooms and a
separate grooming station.
In a bid to “provide something
extra”, all scheduled
treatments will be preceded
by the Kiehl’s Signature Greeting – a neck, arm,
hand and foot massage with lavender.
Meanwhile, signature facials will start with
a personalised skin diagnosis to determine the
course of treatment for each guest.
India-based medical spa operator Leonia is
preparing to launch the first of three new
LeoJuventa-branded spas in November.
The new £2m (us$3.1m, €2.3m) standalone
spa in Jaipur will cover up to 10,000sq ft (929sq
m) and incorporate eight therapy rooms.
Spa 1851 boasts three treatment rooms and a separate grooming station
Kiehl’s is the latest consumer brand to move
into spa operations, following others such as
Nivea, Molton Brown, Sulwhasoo, Dove (see
sb09/3 p24) and L’Occitane, which announced
its India rollout proposals in July 2010.
Meanwhile, the next LeoJuventa-branded
facility to open will be a similarly-sized spa in
Visakhapatnam in December 2012.
A new 20,000sq ft (1,858sq m) spa with 15
therapy rooms in Mumbai will then follow,
with its launch scheduled for October 2014.
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