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06 OCTOBER 2026 ISSUE 511

A SPA BUSINESS PUBLICATION

Kerzner promotes Robert Jeffers

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Kerzner International has promoted Robert Jeffers to global director of wellness and longevity, with responsibility for developing and implementing wellness strategy across its four hospitality brands – One&Only, Atlantis, Siro and Rare Finds. Jeffers moves into the corporate role from Atlantis The Palm in Dubai, where he has been director of wellness since 2024, overseeing one KERZNER

of the largest integrated wellness operations in the Middle East.

■ Jeffers has a wide brief, spanning One&Only, Atlantis and Siro

His new brief covers the development of wellness,

corporate wellness team as the

from amenity to expectation for

recovery and longevity concepts,

group progressively embeds

today's luxury traveller," he says.

strengthening commercial

wellness into its hospitality strategy.

Jeffers said of his appointment:

performance and integrating

Philippe Zuber, CEO of Kerzner

"As wellness and longevity become

wellness into the planning of new

International, says the appointment

central to the guest experience, I'm

hotels, renovations and repositioning

reflects changing expectations

looking forward to defining what that

projects. The appointment also

in the luxury hospitality market.

means in practice across the group."

strengthens Kerzner's existing

"Wellness and longevity have moved

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The group has released its 2027 trends report

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AUTHENTICITY

VISION ARCHITECTURE

Hilton research says social wellness is key for spas

THOM DENNIS

HILTON QUANG HANH ONSEN RESORT

RESEARCH

CONCEPT

Looking after staff leads to the best client outcomes

Architects plan wellness infrastructure for Czech town

Thom Dennis says staff wellbeing is a priority

The concept will transform Lázně Kynžvart

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spa business people Piyarat Tanjaputkul shares the strategy behind one-night programmes at RXV Wellness Village

of three nights, which may not suit

RXV Wellness Village in the

those incorporating wellness into a

Nakhon Pathom province,

wider Thailand itinerary, travelling

Thailand, has introduced its first

on limited time, or simply looking

one-night experience to provide a

for a short reset. By offering a one-

shorter and more flexible way for

night option, RXV allows guests to

guests to try the property’s offerings.

experience the essential elements

The Wellness Getaway Programme

of its integrative approach without

has been designed to make wellness

having to dedicate an entire holiday

more accessible. Guests can try

to a traditional wellness retreat.

RXV WELLNESS VILLAGE

ntegrative wellness destination

out the property’s personalised assessments, movement classes, medical treatments, healing therapies, social and dining experiences during the shorter stay.

“Previously, international guests

Even within a short stay, the programme is designed to create space to pause

were required to stay a minimum

Piyarat Tanjaputkul

Piyarat Tanjaputkul, EVP of wellness for RXV Wellness Village, told Spa Business exclusively:

“More importantly, RXV hopes that even a one-night experience can inspire guests to realise that incorporating wellbeing into everyday life can be much easier and more achievable than they may imagine. The aim is for guests to leave with practical learnings for their lifestyle long after their stay.” MORE >>> http://lei.sr/3f6g3_B

Anand Prayaga reveals heliotherapy at new Four Seasons healing centre

FOUR SEASONS RESORTS MALDIVES

our Seasons Resort Maldives

Dr Anand Prayaga, director of

at Kuda Huraa in the Maldives

URJA Naturopathy Island, told Spa

has unveiled a new healing

Business: "At Urja, the sun is not

centre called Urja Naturopathy

simply scenery; it is part of the

Island with a treatment menu that

treatment. Heliotherapy reflects our

includes heliotherapy – exposing

belief that nature can play an active

the body to natural sunlight to

role in wellbeing when it is used

treat a variety of conditions.

with knowledge, care and intention.

Urja, which means “vitality”

“The treatment draws on the

Heliotherapy can complement nutrition, movement, hydrotherapy and other treatments

in Sanskrit, combines

traditional naturopathic practice of

naturopathic principles with

the banana leaf sunbath. A herbal or

scientific wellness methods.

mineral-salt preparation may first be

The spa has overwater

applied to the skin before the body

treatment suites and spaces

is wrapped in fresh banana leaves."

Dr Anand Prayaga

for movement practices.

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CONTENTS ISSUE 511 04

Jayasom

Bathhouse industry survey

Jayasom Wellness Resort, Amaala, debuts with more than 200 therapies

Cassandra Cavanah and Lisa Starr reveal initial findings from their industry survey

BECKY PELKONEN

SPA BUSINESS INSIGHTS

Authentic wellbeing

Spa town revival

Unscripted thermal experiences

Supplier news

Sauna can be commercially successful and still serve a much bigger purpose Becky Pelkonen

Becky Pelkonen launches sauna-bathing charter

n international group of sauna operators, researchers, community leaders and cultural knowledge holders has

launched The Public Sauna-Bathing Charter, a

Leadership expert Thom Dennis asks how well spas can sell wellness if staff are struggling

MY TAKE

Vision Architecture has created a concept that would revive the Czech spa town of Lázně Kynžvart

A new bathhouse will open in Calgary later this year with social, whisper and silent behavioural spaces

The latest in products and innovation from Myndstream, Nokken, Naturopathica, Takara Belmont and Ashmira Botanica

framework of 10 principles intended to guide the development and operation of public saunas. The charter launched in Oslo, Norway, ahead of the XIX International Sauna Congress, which ran between 24 – 26 September. The initiative follows an earlier draft revealed to Spa Business in July by sauna advocate and researcher Becky Pelkonen. The charter is the foundation of Sauna for All, a grassroots international movement led by Pelkonen and nine other founding stewards from public and community sauna organisations in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Mexico. There are also three advisors from the US, Norway and Finland. MORE >>> http://lei.sr/7m6c6_B

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spa business news NEW OPENING

Jayasom Wellness Resort, Amaala, debuts in Saudi Arabia Jayasom has officially opened its first

has been positioned to support

wellness resort at Amaala on Saudi

Saudi Arabia’s wider ambitions

Arabia’s Red Sea coast, bringing its

around long-term wellbeing.

personalised, integrative approach

It has 153 rooms and suites and

to preventative health, longevity and

24 branded residences, alongside

lifestyle change to the destination.

a 7,000sq m health and wellness

Jayasom Wellness Resort,

centre offering more than 200 therapies and treatments across

wellbeing is a lifelong practice,

six pillars: traditional and holistic

with programmes tailored around

health; physio relief and recovery;

guests’ individual physical,

strength and mobility; spa and

emotional and lifestyle goals.

hydrotherapy; aesthetic and

Details of the concept were first

clinical; and nutrition and vitality.

revealed at the end of last year.

The offer combines evidence-

The resort forms part of Amaala,

based interventions with

the ultra-luxury destination being

traditional wellness practices.

developed by Red Sea Global, and

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■ Watsu flotation therapy is on the menu

Our commitment is to deliver wellness with integrity and compassion Karen Campbell, CEO and co-founder of Jayasom

RESEARCH

Hilton research points to a stronger role for wellness in consumer hotel selection Thermal bathing, hydrotherapy and

wellness experiences while travelling,

nature-based wellness are emerging

while 60 per cent said they’re

as important considerations for hotel

more drawn to these experiences

guests, according to Hilton’s 2027

when they can share them.

Trends Report, The Great Rebalance. The global research, conducted

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HILTON QUANG HANH ONSEN RESORT

■ The figures suggest social bathing is a priority

The findings support a direction Hilton’s global wellness team

for Hilton by Morning Consult,

previously discussed with Spa

surveyed 14,744 adults who expect

Business – that water-based

to travel during the next 12 months

experiences are increasingly being

across 14 countries, including the

positioned as social and restorative

UK, US, Germany, UAE, Saudi Arabia,

parts of the hotel stay. One in

China, India, Japan and Australia.

five respondents said they would

Among the findings, 61 per cent

choose a hotel specifically because

of respondents said they’re more

it offered a sauna or steamroom.

likely to engage in water-based

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WHATTHEFOX

Amaala, is centred on the idea that

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COLLECTIVE ADVOCACY

MEET THE TEAM

UK spa sector joins industry campaign The UK Spa Association (UKSA) campaign calling on the government to reduce VAT on professional hairdressing, barbering, beauty, spa and aesthetics services from

RACHEL BEVAN

is backing a UK-wide industry

For email use: fullname@ leisuremedia.com

A 10 per cent VAT rate would provide much-needed breathing space for businesses

20 per cent to 10 per cent.

Editorial director

Liz Terry

+44 (0)1462 431385

Rachel Bevan

Spa Business editor

An open letter to the Chancellor

Katie Barnes

has been launched ahead of the

Association, told Spa Business:

forthcoming Budget (to be published

“UKSA is proud to support the One

on 28 October), calling for the lower

Voice campaign. A 10 per cent VAT

rate to apply to services covered

rate would provide much-needed

by SIC code 96.020, ‘Hairdressing

breathing space for businesses and

and other beauty treatment’. Rachel

support the growth of our sector.”

Bevan, general manager, UK Spa

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Head of news

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SURVEY Head of digital

Bathhouse and thermal wellness sector is booming sector is entering a period of

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Head of design ■ Othership is an example of a bathhouse

OTHERSHIP

The bathhouse and thermal wellness

Tim Nash

Ed Gallagher +44 (0)1462 431385

expansion, with nearly two-thirds of operators surveyed expecting to

a relatively young but increasingly

run multiple locations within three

ambitious sector, characterised

years, according to new research.

by significant investment, revenue

The 2026 Bathhouse and Thermal

potential and expansion plans.

Wellness Development Benchmark

Cavanah told Spa Business

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Survey gathered responses

exclusively: “The early findings

from 43 operators and industry

show a fast-growing sector taking

participants. It was conducted by

shape through a wide range of

Cassandra Cavanah, vice chair

facility sizes, investment levels

of the Global Wellness Institute’s

and operating models. For the first

(GWI) Hydrothermal Initiative,

time, we’re beginning to connect

©Cybertrek Ltd 2026.

and Lisa Starr, chair of the GWI’s

those development decisions with

Consulting Best Practices Initiative.

operational and financial realities.”

The authors say the findings point to

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MY TAKE

An industry whose product depends on trust and authentic presence can't apply one standard of care to guests and a different one to the staff delivering it THOM DENNIS

Thom Dennis, author and corporate culture consultant

Authentic wellbeing Leadership expert Thom Dennis questions how spa staff are being looked after

've spent many years advising

being trusted to find its own balance, applied

organisations on leadership, and a

instead to people, when output is rewarded over

recurring observation has been that

the conditions that sustain it. That argument

burnout is rarely a personal failing. It's

creates an obvious business case for this

usually what a workplace produces when

industry: exhausted professionals from badly run

people are managed by control rather than

companies are effectively a referral pipeline.

trust. It's the same shift ecologists describe

But there's a second half to that argument

when land stops being managed and starts

the industry doesn't ask about itself: who is designing the treatments, running the front SHUTTERSTOCK/ THIDARAT KWANGTEN

desk, delivering the massage, holding the space for someone else's recovery and what does their working life look like while they do it?

Evidence A 2023 study of women spa therapists in Victoria, Australia, found stress driven by job overload, emotional labour and what the researchers call gendered aesthetic labour: performing calm and intimacy for clients regardless of your own state. The same paper describes an industry marked by high turnover and burnout among the people delivering its core service.

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Live news: www.spabusiness.com ■ Guests could be missing

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out on high-value services if staff are struggling

A second study published in 2025, and based on interviews with spa therapists in Macao hotels, in China, highlighted that while there's been plenty of research into how wellness affects guests,

Exhausted professionals from badly run companies are effectively a referral pipeline

comparatively little has been focused on how it affects the people providing it. The industry has

cultures I've encountered sit in this sector. But

built its research agenda around the experience it

an industry whose product depends on trust and

sells, leaving out the experience of producing it.

authentic presence can't apply one standard of

This was highlighted for me when I recently

care to guests and a different one to the staff

had a treatment in a well-known spa. The

delivering it. If the treatment room is where a

therapist was visibly stretched thin, and in

client learns to slow down, while the therapist

response to my curiosity, she mentioned

is pushing through, that implies a business of

how hard the business has been finding it to

inauthenticity quietly contradicting itself.

recruit an assistant, including an observed

This industry sells guests a fluent message

marked drop in interest from local college

about reconnection, slowing down, letting the

students studying the specialism. This is just

body reset. If there is the dissonance I’m implying,

one conversation, but it seems to line up

clients are likely unconsciously missing some

with what the two studies above describe.

of the high value they could be getting. ●

Workplace culture

■ Thom Dennis is CEO of culture change

This is not to suggest that spas are poorly run.

consultancy Serenity in Leadership and the

In fact, some of the most thoughtful workplace

author of Rewilding the Corporate Mind

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spa business insights

Resource revival Czech spa town Lázně Kynžvart is planning a comeback as an integrated £318 million wellness destination.

rchitecture and urban planning firm Vision Architecture has created a strategic concept to revitalise the Czech spa town Lázně Kynžvart and turn it into an integrated spa and wellness destination.. The town, formerly known as Bad Königswart, has developed an initiative called Bad Königswart 2030 to regenerate the town and strengthen its position as an international wellness and spa destination, with a focus on hospitality, medical tourism, heritage, gastronomy and culture. Lázně Kynžvart lies between the established spa destinations of Mariánské Lázně and Karlovy Vary, both of which are part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site made up of 11 historic mineral spring spa towns, the Great Spa Towns of Europe (GSTE).

VISION ARCHITECTURE

The proposed Königswart complex would measure 48,000sq m

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Radek Vopalecký, chief architect at Vision Architecture, told Spa Business: “The town already has state-recognised natural healing resources, such as mineral springs, a unique climate and peat – which are comparable to those of the nearby Mariánské Lázně area. However, its historical development was repeatedly interrupted, and the town never achieved the critical mass of accommodation and ancillary services required for full-scale spa operations.” The town is now known for the Children’s Spa and Sanatorium Lázně Kynžvart, which specialises primarily in non-specific respiratory diseases, skin ailments such as eczema, kidney and urinary tract illnesses, and childhood obesity. The architects say the project offers an opportunity to overcome what they describe as two centuries of stagnation and restore the town to a position of distinction within the European spa and medical tourism landscape. ©Cybertrek Ltd 2026 Spa Business Issue 511

Vision Architecture has designed the new concept

VISION ARCHITECTURE

The town already has staterecognised natural healing resources, such as mineral springs

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spa business insights Königswart The new plan centres on Königswart, a proposed 48,000sq m medical spa, longevity and hospitality development on a 2-hectare state-owned site. The architects estimate the project will require investment of around CZK 9 billion (US$410 million, €369 million, £318 million). The site is designated in the municipal zoning plan for spa-related civic amenities, and the development is intended to become the centrepiece of the wider Bad Königswart 2030 regeneration initiative.

The proposal says the complex would be partly paid for by selling residences

VISION ARCHITECTURE

The concept includes between 1,200 and 1,800 beds, a covered climate-controlled promenade with ground-floor retail and restaurants, underground parking for 350 vehicles and technical facilities. A glass-enclosed foyer is planned to host concerts by international singers, with capacity for 2,000 standing spectators. The KYNŽV[ART] concerts are also intended to be broadcast on television. The medical component includes specialised units for respiratory and skin conditions, a longevity medicine centre, plastic surgery, rehabilitation, assisted reproduction, hair transplantation and comprehensive dental care, including implantology.

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The preliminary model identifies the potential guest breakdown as follows: ■ Resort (4 – 10 days) ■ Medical and longevity

(7 – 21 days)

■ Traditional spa ■ Family wellness ■ Corporate/ education ■ Golf/ active ■ Shopping and lifestyle

The town’s historical development was repeatedly interrupted Funding and operation The proposed financing structure would combine the sale of apartments and medical suites to private investors with a strategic investment partner. The state would retain ownership of the land under a proposed long-term arrangement with developers. The investment memorandum also considers a structure combining stateretained land, institutional capital, senior debt and individually owned accommodation. Spa Business Issue 511 ©Cybertrek Ltd 2026

No operator or brand has been appointed. The project’s preliminary operating model forecasts stabilised annual revenue of CZK 1.95 billion (US$89 million, €80 million, £69 million) and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) of CZK 585 million (US$27 million, €24 million, TAP OR SCAN £20 million), but the memorandum stresses that these figures are scenario assumptions rather than an investable forecast. ● http://lei.sr/r3Q9h_S

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VISION ARCHITECTURE

A glass-enclosed foyer could host concerts, with capacity for 2,000 people

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spa business insights

‘Unscripted’ journeys Indoor-outdoor thermal day spa Forum Thermal will open with three behavioural spaces for socialising, whispering and silence

NIC DYKSTRA

n 18,000sq ft thermal spa called Forum Thermal will open in Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta, later this year. The indoor-outdoor facilities will be located on the ground floor of a 35-floor mixed-use building of 800 residential suites and retail units called The Oliver Block at the intersection of Calgary downtown and Beltline. Forum Thermal is owned by a group of entrepreneurs from the city with experience in the thermal spa industry, project development, architecture, landscape architecture, experience design and operations. The project is being developed by one of Forum Thermal’s founders and operating partner, Matt Wilson. Eton West is the general contractor and Hereby Architecture has designed the space. The spa experience design is by O2 Planning and Design and the operations development is by MacInnis Spa Consulting. Other companies involved in the engineering of the project include Smith and Anderson, Entuitive and pool system specialists Aqua Plans Aquatic Consultants.

Nic Dykstra is a partner and spa experience designer at Forum Thermal

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Experience design Nic Dykstra, partner and spa experience designer at Forum Thermal, told Spa Business exclusively about the unscripted guest journey that will unfold at the day spa: “There will be three types of behavioural spaces within the spa: Social, Whisper, and Silent spaces. Access to and between these spaces will vary, offering different types of transitions, compressions and expansions. The best thermal spas, in our opinion, resist organising themselves around a single central space of constant observation and togetherness. Instead, they weave together a network of places that span a spectrum of social and personal experience. From secluded spaces that foster introspection to shared spaces that cultivate a sense

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One of the exterior pools wraps around the south, west and north terraces

HEREBY

The journey should feel expansive and freeing rather than compact and predetermined

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spa business insights of collective wellbeing, guests are free to move between these conditions as their desires evolve throughout their visit. “Equally important are the spaces between destinations. The best paths unfold with intention, introducing moments of discovery, separation, anticipation and seclusion. The journey should feel expansive and freeing rather than compact and predetermined, always allowing guests the freedom to pause, change direction or seek a different experience. No one should feel committed to an experience they cannot step away from, and no one should feel that others’ behaviours are unduly shaping their experience. “We’re confident that what we’re developing is informed by the best thermal spa experiences in Canada, North America and beyond.”

Facilities

HEREBY

The thermal journey will feature six pools, three saunas and two steamrooms. One of the exterior pools wraps around the south, west and north terraces to weave the downtown surroundings into the experience. Sauna Technics is providing large sauna heaters, Homecraft Saunas is

Visits to the spa are expected to last three hours

A soundproof room called The Still will have heated terrazzo slabs for guests to lie on

Guests are free to move as their desires evolve throughout their visit HEREBY

supplying smaller heaters, Tesoro will supply stainless steel pools and Condair is delivering steam generators. The wide variety of relaxation spaces will include an outdoor year-round covered terrace lounge with a central fireplace and heaters and an uncovered sun deck with loungers and seating pods between plants. Indoors, guests will be able to relax in a linear mezzanine gallery space that Spa Business Issue 511 ©Cybertrek Ltd 2026

overlooks the spa’s central basin chamber. Signature teas, filtered water and light refreshments will be available here. A soundproof room with a vaulted ceiling, called The Still, will feature heated terrazzo slabs for guests to lie on. The TAP OR SCAN company says this space will be used for live performances, meditation, vibration therapy and other experiences. ●

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TAKARA BELMONT

Takara Belmont introduces all-in-one beauty chair and head spa to spa market

apanese hairdressing

cold and waste feeds in one fixed

equipment manufacturer

spot within the spa, reducing

Takara Belmont is launching

the need for guests to move

The One, a multi-purpose treatment

around for further treatments.

chair currently used in salons,

Katie Fielder, Takara Belmont’s

into the spa and beauty market.

national sales manager, says: "The

It is designed to increase

One not only creates a stunning

TAKARA BELMONT

■ Takara Belmont will provide accredited training for spa staff in head spa treatments upon purchase of the unit

■ Katie Fielder

service possibilities for spas and

centrepiece that enhances interior

downtime and increasing per-chair

salons while maximising space.

aesthetics. It creates a unique hub

productivity while maintaining

The product can be used for

for high-end beauty by supporting

a positive client connection

various treatments, including facials,

a wide range of treatments,

throughout the service journey."

eyebrow and eyelash treatments.

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It has a setting that enables

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shmira Botanica has

health and emotions to provide

launched an app that uses

a more engaging, streamlined

traditional Chinese medicine

and holistic evaluation before

(TCM) to help therapists personalise

suggesting treatments. Therapies

treatments and guest experiences.

it suggests include acupressure

The new Five Elements

and meridian massage.

MYNDSTREAM

Ashmira Botanica launches Five Elements Consultation App

Consultation App digitises the

Tracey Smith, founder of Ashmira

consultation process by asking

Botanica, told Spa Business: “What

guests questions about their skin

makes the Ashmira Botanica app so

■ The elements are linked to

innovative is the way it brings TCM

different skin concerns

FAYE THOMAS

and the Five Elements into a digital spa consultation, creating a highly

journey, taking an ancient wellness

personalised approach that looks

philosophy and making it accessible.”

beyond skin type alone to consider

and the app generates their

“For spas, it provides an innovative

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