Issue 60
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping, festivals and outdoor events
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping, festivals and outdoor events
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Mainstream Hotel Capitalises<br />
on Back to Nature Wellness<br />
HOMEWOOD HOTEL<br />
& Spa near Bath has<br />
launched two brand<br />
new spa lodge suites to<br />
capitalise on the rise of<br />
wellness tourism.<br />
Featuring rustic-style<br />
interiors with natural<br />
tones, stone walls and<br />
mirrors, each lodge<br />
comes with a private hot<br />
tub, barrel sauna and<br />
plunge pool. Homewood<br />
is also introducing a<br />
wellness menu that<br />
guests can access<br />
through their phones.<br />
The new suites are priced<br />
from £475 per night.<br />
Ramside Hall<br />
Hotel adds More<br />
Treehouses<br />
RAMSIDE HALL Hotel Golf and Spa<br />
in Durham has invested £500,000 in<br />
two new treehouses to keep up with<br />
demand.<br />
Named Swan and Kingfisher, the<br />
two additional glass fronted A frame<br />
structures bring the total number of<br />
treehouses at the site to six. Geared<br />
towards couples, the treehouses feature<br />
seven foot beds, saunas and hot tubs.<br />
Ramside also has four larger, three<br />
bedroomed treehouses, one of which is<br />
also used for wedding ceremonies.<br />
Scotland and<br />
Ireland Lead Places<br />
to Elope<br />
NEW RESEARCH conducted by Las Vegas<br />
wedding chapel, Chapel of the Flowers,<br />
analysed worldwide elopement trends<br />
and Google search data from the past year<br />
to discover where couples are searching to<br />
elope worldwide.<br />
It comes as no surprise that Las Vegas<br />
took the crown as the most popular<br />
destination, with 11,800 searches every<br />
month but after Italy in second place,<br />
locations closer to home made the top<br />
four.<br />
Scotland, ranking third, receives 5,725<br />
average searches every month from across<br />
the globe, with Ireland coming in fourth<br />
with 5,500, beating other top destinations,<br />
including Nashville, Iceland and New York<br />
City.<br />
Google searches for ‘elopement’ are<br />
currently the highest on record. Many<br />
couples are now opting to elope over<br />
hosting large traditional weddings as a<br />
means to save towards other life expenses.<br />
According to Pinterest trends, 66% of<br />
searches for ‘elopement ideas’ over the<br />
last 12 months are from people aged 25-<br />
34, 88% of which are female.<br />
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