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DUE TO OPEN LATE 2019!
Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa is a luxury spa and wellness centre set to open on Rotorua’s
lakefront in late 2019. Rotorua will soon be known globally as the “Spa Capital of the
South Pacific” attracting visitors both nationally and internationally.
The development of a new luxury spa and
wellness centre on Rotorua’s lakefront will
reinforce Rotorua’s position on the global
stage as a spa and wellness destination, while
creating new jobs and boosting the local
economy by tens of millions of dollars a year.
Offering a significant acknowledgement to
the reason the city was established in the first
place, Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa is set to
put Rotorua on track to becoming the spa and
wellness capital of the Southern Hemisphere.
The facility will form just one element of
the wider health and wellness vision for the
Group’s 11 hectare site on Rotorua’s lakefront.
Development chairman, Malcolm Short says
the name Wai Ariki means “chiefly waters”,
and is a reminder of the origin of Rotorua’s
thermal waters, which were called in Aotearoa
New Zealand by Ngatoroirangi.
Wai Ariki will have elements of Māori culture
infused throughout, including the design of
the building and its unique spa and wellness
offerings.
“While specific details around Wai Ariki and its
offerings remain commercially sensitive, we
are confident this development is something
which Rotorua, and in fact New Zealand, has
never seen before,” says Mr Short.
14 Guysers Gazette
Issue 13 • Autumn 2018