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US-based private equity group Pegasus
Capital Advisors has entered into a binding
agreement to acquire the luxury resort
and spa businesses of Six Senses Resorts &
Spas for an undisclosed sum.
Under the terms of the deal, Pegasus will
acquire all of the Six Senses and Evasonbranded
resort and spa management
contracts and related intellectual property
rights and operate them under a new company
managed by Pegasus and its affiliates.
Details: http://lei.sra=0u3L1
The ladies-only club will be spread over 1,160sq m
Fitness First Middle East has opened its
first health club in Abu Dhabi – a ladiesonly
club in Marina Mall.
The new club is spread over 1,160sq m
and offers best-in-class cardiovascular and
resistance equipment, in addition to an
extensive selection of free weights.
Audio and visual entertainment is
available throughout the club. Included
in the membership, group exercise
timetables encompass all the class offerings
from Les Mills, as well as Zumba.
Details: http://lei.sra=M9v8E
Crunch Fitness will open its latest location
in the heart of Burbank, California, US, in
April – its second club in the LA area. The
2,415sq m facility will offer top of the range
CV and strength equipment, a dedicated
personal training area, an online fitness
and nutrition programme, Kids’ Crunch,
a sauna and locker rooms.
Hundreds of weekly classes will be
offered in the large group fitness studio
and indoor cycling studio, including
Anti Gravity Yoga, Pole Dancing, The
Ride and LaBlast, which is taught by
celebrity instructor Louis Van Amstel.
Details: http://lei.sra=V6j2Q
Bask, a new spa and wellbeing
concept developed by lifestyle
brand Exhale, has opened
at Revel, a new US$2.4bn
(€1.8bn, £1.5bn) resort destination
in Atlantic City, US.
The 32,000sq ft (2,973sq m)
wellness sanctuary concept
has been created exclusively
for Revel and is among the
resort facilities currently
being previewed over an
eight-week period that begun
on 2 April 2012.
At the core of the Bask spa
will be a 3,000sq ft (279sq m)
co-ed bathhouse in which guests can relax,
socialise and unwind in the Himalayan salt
grotto and hammam.
Bask also has 32 therapy rooms, steamrooms
and a deluge shower, while the fitness
centre will host Exhale’s Core Fusion and
yoga classes. The spa will use Exhale’s five
skincare lines – 302, Actifirm, Tata Harper,
Atkins, the UK-based design
and engineering consulting
firm, has completed the
masterplan for a major new
world-class healthcare facility
in Oman, The Medical
City (TMC).
TMC is the largest private
healthcare infrastructure
development in the country
and is fronted by Apex
Medical Group, with the complex
to occupy an 800,000sq
m (8.6 million sq ft) site by
the Arabian Sea.
Facilities will include a
375-bedroom hotel and a spa, although further
specifications are yet to be confirmed. It
is expected, however, that the hotel will incorporate
swimming pools and a gym as part of
its offer. The spa will be open to the public, in
addition to its use for medical purposes, and the
A special ceremony has helped celebrate
the official launch of the new Thomas A
Robinson National Stadium at the new-look
Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre in Nassau, the
Bahamas. The 15,000-seat stadium has been
built over a two-year period at a cost of around
The 32,000sq ft Bask spa will feature a total of 32 treatment rooms
ISClinical, and Sircuit – which are used across
the brand’s existing spa estate.
Exhale currently operates spas and wellness
centres in a number of US locations,
including three in Boston and seven in New
York. It also has a spa at the Gansevoort
Turks + Caicos resort in the Caribbean.
Details: http://lei.sra=m0u8m
Facilities at Medical City will include a 375-bedroom hotel and spa
hotel is to be positioned at the high end of the
market. TMC will be centred around a hospital,
while other healthcare facilities will include
training and education areas for medical staff,
a wellbeing centre and residential accommodation.
Details: http://lei.sra=e7q2c
US$30m (£18.8m, €22.5m) and is a gift to the
country from the Chinese government.
It is hoped the development will become
the Caribbean region’s foremost sports venue,
while also helping to establish the Bahamas as
an international sports tourism destination.
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