Delos expanding into cruise ships and airport lounges Wellness real estate firm Delos is launching a Stay Well at Sea programme and several leading cruise ship operators have already expressed an interest in it. The programme, which focuses on mindfulness and meditation, has been developed in partnership with Steiner Leisure, The Cleveland Clinic and Deepak Chopra’s new wellness platform, Jiyo. Passengers will also have access to three months of self-guided programming and eCoaches from the Cleveland Clinic after they disembark. “It’s not just what happens on board, it’s what you’re going to learn – and what you’re going to take with you after you disembark,” says Alfredo Carvajal, president of Delos International & Signature Program. In other news, Delos has debuted its first airport lounge at Seattle’s Delta Sky Club, in partnership with skincare brand Comfort Zone and New York-based operator Asanda. More: http://lei.sr?a=X7E6N_B
The cruise industry is understanding that they have to start selling wellness and they have to put it up front Alfredo Carvajal,
The spa will include a range of indoor and outdoor treatment areas
Sea, sound, salt and sand inspire upcoming Auberge Fort Lauderdale spa Spa consultant Tracy Lee of TLee Spas is behind a 10,000sq ft (929sq m) spa at the Auberge Beach Residences & Spa Fort Lauderdale in the US. The Florida spa, due to open in 2018 to residents and guests, was inspired by the sea, sound, salt and sand, says Lee. “This inspiration came from numerous sources,” she says. “[including] the experience of one of the owners who grew up on this site and was profoundly shaped by these collective forces of nature. “We want to harness the sense of release, recovery and renewal that most of us equate with time spent at the seaside wellness experience.” Nine treatment rooms will be available, including a speciality room
We want to harness the sense of release, recovery and renewal that most of us equate with time spent at the seaside Tracy Lee
with a Gharieni bed where a Sound & Sand Massage will be performed. A Purification Circuit will blend indoor/ outdoor bathhouse experiences inclusive of a salt inhalation room. Lee has a close relationship with Auberge. She worked as its VP of spas for 14 years and created many of its wellness facilities including Solage Calistoga in California. She left the hotel firm in 2014 to focus on her consultancy full time. Read more: http://lei.sr?a=A4D8q
Two-storey, 4,600sq m LivNordic spa to open at Katara Beach Club, Doha
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Raison d’Etre, the spa Spa Menu – which focuses consultancy, is to open a on Nordic health traditions 4,600sq m (49,514sq ft) combined with the latest LivNordic Spa at the Katara in wellness – as well as Beach Club in the Katara Hydrafacial treatments and Cultural Village in Doha, hammam therapies. Qatar. Anna-Cari Gund, Designed by Gillian managing director of Raison Docherty of Studio HBA in Anna-Cari Gund d’Etre, tells Spa Business that Dubai, the facility aims to it run the facility as a club, bring the outside in with an with a focus on memberships, day use interplay of light and shadow, making guests, spa, and fitness. use of natural materials such as stone, Set to open in Q1 2017, the Katara and timber, with spaces designed to Beach Club by LivNordic Spa & have a cooling and calming effect. Read more: http://lei.sr?a=k7m3t_B Wellness will be offering the LivNordic