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Teton Springs Lodge & Spa Idaho - Marcial named spa manager

 

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Elisa Marcial has been named manager of Stillwaters, the new luxury full-service spa at Teton Springs Lodge & Spa. Stillwaters Spa brings an imaginative and distinctive menu of treatment items to Idaho’s newest all-season luxury resort.

“We are thrilled to welcome Elisa Marcial as the newest member of the Teton Springs Lodge & Spa team,” commented David Smith, the resort’s general manager. “Elisa’s experience and dedication to superior service combined with our new luxury facility will surely leave guests with an unforgettable spa experience.“

A native of Wyoming, Marcial most recently was spa director at the Energy Oasis Health Club and Day Spa in Richmond Hill, Georgia, where she was responsible for creating the spa menu and signature treatments. She also worked as a massage therapist trainer at The Broadmoor Spa and as a massage therapist for Keller Chiropractic.

Educated in Wyoming and Utah, including at the Utah College of Massage Therapy in Salt Lake, Marcial’s skills include a broad variety of massage disciplines including Swedish, Thai, Hot Stone and Deep Tissue, as well as Ashiatsu and hydrotherapy. She is certified in Ashiatsu and “Keeping the Stars,” a five-star customer service training program.

About Teton Springs Lodge & Spa

Situated in the heart of the Teton Valley in Idaho, Teton Springs Lodge & Spa opened in December 2007 with 52 rooms and suites. A member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World collection (SLH), the resort offers casually elegant guest accommodations. Phase I of the resort includes 2,000 square feet of meeting space, The Sage Gourmet wine and cafe bar and the 5,000-square foot Stillwaters Spa, featuring a full range of treatments and services as well as a two person treatment room with fireplace. Phase II will be completed in 2008, including an additional 55 rooms and upscale fine dining at the Headwaters Grille. Current meeting space will be converted into a fashionable retail complex. A new Headwaters Club and Conference Center will offer 3,000 square feet of flexible meeting space including two dining areas for corporate and social functions.

Highlighting a wide range of recreational activities is the Headwaters Golf Club, offering an 18-hole championship course designed by Byron Nelson, Steve Jones and Gary Stephenson as well as a nine-hole executive course and practice facility. A Swim and Fitness Center, with two tennis courts and a 25-meter pool also is available. The region offers a wide range of recreational facilities including some of the finest fly fishing in the world, horseback riding, kayaking, hiking and mountain biking, hot air ballooning and swimming. In winter, Jackson Hole, Grand Targhee and other popular resorts provide world-class skiing and snowboarding.

 

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Overland Park KS New Spa - Modern Essential Skincare

Modern Essential Skincare

Address: 8216 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park

913-341-7546

Skin care treatments: Services include facials, massages, waxing, body exfoliation, detoxifying and mud body wraps, spray tanning, eye revitalization treatments, eyebrow/eyelash dyes, reflexology and aromatherapy. Prices range from $20 for a 30-minute facial to $80 for a 90-minute Swedish massage.

Products: The spa carries Visage, an organic skincare line, which includes products for spa body care, fine lines, acne, dryness, cleansers, toners, exfoliants and serum intensives. The spa also carries California Tan products.

The owner: Stacey Gonzales, 28, is a licensed CIDESCO aesthetician, with 12 years of experience.

 

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Resorts - The need for Spas - MGM - Kalahari

Ah. the spa

Guests are taking advantage of resorts’ relaxing, pampering, soothing services

The soft sounds of synthesized music soothe inside Spa Kalahari, just a short walk down the hall from the nation’s largest, and perhaps loudest, indoor water park.

This is where parents come to escape the noise, the surf - and yes, sometimes, even the kids.

It’s a familiar scene at resorts across the country.

The resort spa, once the purview of the pampered and well-off, is becoming as common as coffee makers in hotel rooms, catering to everyone from overstressed parents to overworked business travelers.

The hotel spa has become a must-have for romantic getaways, family weekend trips, even conventioneers, who crave an early evening pedicure after a long day of meetings.

“Every resort hotel being built has to have a spa as part of it,” said Bruce Baltin, a senior vice president with PKF Hospitality Research, who recently released the report, “Trends in the Hotel Spa Industry.”

“It’s kind of shocked me that it’s become so important,” he said.

All categories of spas have grown rapidly in recent years, according to the International Spa Association in Lexington, Ky. In 2007, there were 14,615 in the United States (the vast majority of them day spas catering to local traffic), nearly double the number from six years earlier.

But hotel spas generate the biggest per-guest revenue and are growing faster than almost every other category, including destination spas, according to the association.

The main draw at destination spas is the spa itself, with its emphasis on healthy lifestyle. Hotel spas generally attract guests for other reasons. Kalahari owner Todd Nelson said the spa fits in with his goal to offer something for every type of visitor, from overactive kids to overstressed parents to overworked business travelers. “We’re trying to put in something for absolutely everyone,” he said. “We’re giving people more and more things to do.”

The spa was an afterthought at Nelson’s first water park resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., added a year after the park opened (and expanded three times since).

In Sandusky, the spa was part of the plan from the beginning and includes 10 treatment rooms over 5,000 square feet.

At Nelson’s third park, scheduled to open next year in Virginia, the spa-fitness area will be bigger still, with steam rooms, saunas, cold pools and a larger fitness center with personal trainers.

“People are more health conscious,” he said. “They’re taking better care of themselves.”

The trend has caused historic resort properties, including the recently reopened Bedford Springs Resort in Pennsylvania and the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif., to spend millions updating their offerings.

Spas have become mandatory at casino resorts, in Las Vegas and beyond, including at the new MGM Grand Detroit, which offers 20,000 square feet of pampering and relaxation. The resort’s Immerse Spa, spread out over two floors, features a gorgeous adults-only infinity pool, separate male and female lounges (”transition zones”) and dozens of spa and salon treatments.

Urban hotels are joining the movement, adding spas to boost their weekend traffic, according to Baltin.

Small regional inns, too, are picking up on the trend, hiring massage therapists and aestheticians to their employee rolls.

The Inn at Cedar Falls, a popular bed-and-breakfast in Ohio’s Hocking Hills region, opened a small spa two years ago and is already considering expanding.

Housed in a restored 1840s cabin, the 1,400-square-foot spa has three treatment rooms that are often booked on weekends, said innkeeper Ellen Grinsfelder. Couples massages and girlfriend getaways are especially popular.

The importance of spa services to guests is evident in the increasing number of spa reservations that are made before the guests arrive, according to hotel consultant Baltin. “It’s something they think about when they choose their hotels.”

At Kalahari, spa director Theresa Gillette estimated about half the customers book ahead and half call during their stay.

Last-minute callers are frequently mothers, eager for a respite, however brief, from the cacophony of the cavernous water park.

A 50-minute Swedish massage ought to do it.

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Business Profile: Zen Salon and Spa

 

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Sean and Julie Shannon operate Zen Salon and Spa. The business has 10 hair stylists, two massage therapists, three estheticians for skin care and two nail technicians. It also houses Zen-sational Solutions, a hair-restoration clinic

Zen Salon and Spa

Where: 2800 S. Ind. 135 , Greenwood, IN.

Services: Hair styling, massages, facials, pedicures, manicures, intricate nail paintings and Zen-sational Solutions non-surgical hair restoration.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.

For the past five years, the 56-year-old Vengley said he has received non-surgical hair-restoration treatments in coordination with consultant Tim Schladweiler at a Northwestside Indianapolis center.

Late last year, Schladweiler, Greenwood, opened his own Zen-sational Solutions non-surgical hair-restoration business inside the new Zen Salon and Spa in a retail center at the southwest corner of Ind. 135 and Stones Crossing Road.

Vengley said he decided to continue his consultations with Schladweiler by following him to his new location, where technician Angi Lankford, 35, Camby, conducts the treatments.

Schladweiler, 40, said there are at least four hair-restoration businesses in the north suburban area, but he could find none on Indianapolis’ Southside or in Johnson County.

So, he said, he decided to open a business in the Greenwood area. His service offers scalp laser treatments to generate hair growth in those with just spots of thinning hair and cosmetic skin grafting for those with advanced hair loss.

The cost to a customer varies greatly depending upon the scope of treatment needed, Schladweiler said, but the total annual cost generally ranges from $1,200 to $2,500.

Vengley gets monthly treatment updates on his skin-grafting hair restoration, a process that injects human hair matched identically to his own into scalp-like material to provide hair.

Vengley said he’s seen constant improvements in hair-restoration treatments since he first started receiving them 15 years ago while living in New Jersey.

He said he can swim and water ski and never have to worry about his restored hair. He added that the restored hair also boosts self-esteem. “If you feel good about yourself, everything else comes together in your life,” he said.

As for the long drive for his hair restoration treatments, Vengley called the new Zen Salon and Spa “awesome.”

“It’s full service,” he said, adding that he also likes to get a manicure and massage there.

The salon and spa, owned and operated by Sean and Julie Shannon, Greenwood, opened in late November in 6,700 square feet of space.

Besides housing Schladweiler’s hair-restoration business, the salon and spa has 10 hair stylists, two massage therapists, three estheticians for skin care and two nail technicians.

The Shannons designed their salon and spa in predominant red and black colors and Japanese artwork, with top-of-the-line equipment, including upscale pedicure chairs that give a customer a back massage while rising and lowering during feet-soaking treatment.

Julie Shannon, 41, said she and Schladweiler’s wife, Anita, 42, met when they both did office work at a hair salon a few miles farther north in Greenwood. Also, they each have a son who is a freshman at Center Grove High School.

Anita Schladweiler, a native of Germany, works the front desk at the Shannons’ Zen Salon and Spa.

Hair stylist Jennifer Barker, 35, Greenwood, said she found the opportunity to work at the new Zen Salon and Spa just right, as she returned from several years in Chicago to be nearer to her family.

Another hair stylist, Kris Crafton, 32, Greenwood, moved over from another Greenwood salon.

“There’s nothing in here I do not love,” Crafton said of the people and interior design at the new salon. “We’re one big happy family.”

 

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Body Shaping and Skin Tightening

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Over the next five years. the emerging market segments of body shaping and skin tightening will be prime catalysts behind unprecedented growth in the global aesthetic industry, according to the just-released Global Aesthetic Market research report from Medical Insight, Inc.

This report, which provides in-depth analysis and a five-year forecast of the $8.4 billion global aesthetic industry, indicates these relatively new categories will play prominent roles in record industry growth, protected to increase by 12.5% annually and reach $15.3 billion by 2011. Among highlights in the newest edition of this annual market study:

 

• Total worldwide sales of aesthetic equipment,

currently estimated at $1.2 billion, will rise by 10.3% per year, reaching over $1.9 billion in 2011. Total related fees will grow 16.1% annually, to $34.9 billion during the same period.

• Body shaping and skin tightening devices will drive aggressive expansion in the device category. with CAGRs of 20.7% and 15.7% respectively, escalating from $231.6 million in 2006 to $564.5 million in global sales by 2011.

 

 

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NY Ithaca Day Spa - Alta Spa - Spa Business Profile

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“This business is going to grow,” she said. “When you get three people as excited as we are, we can’t help it.” Business Profile: Alta Spa

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Owner: Awura-Abena Ansah

Alta Spa

Day Spa & Full Service Salon

308 East State St.
Ithaca, New York 14850
(607) 273-6818

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When did you open your downtown business?

Fall 1999

What services or products does your business offer?

Alta Spa offers the skincare, massage, waxing/sugaring, hair and nail treatments that both men and women would expect to find in a large city, in a day spa setting, in a smaller city. We offer specialized services such as microdermabrasion, toning, anti-aging facials and body treatments; and braids, weaves and dreadlocks using the newest and latest products that are available on the market.

What were the challenges you overcame to start your business?

One of the challenges was convincing the bank that Alta Spa would be totally different and would be something new in downtown Ithaca that provides a service people would want and need.

If you could re-live your first year as a business owner, what would you have done differently?

Alta Spa would do more cross- and fusion-marketing with other businesses for mutual benefit. Promote other businesses to our clients while those businesses did the same.

What are the major business challenges that you expect this year?

This year and every year, the biggest challenge for Alta Spa is to offer products and services that appeal to both the newer population in the area and its’ long-term residents. It’s always a challenge to look for new products and services that will appeal to both.

How are you preparing to meet those challenges?

Alta Spa will meet the challenge by constantly learning about new trends in the spa, skincare and beauty industries… lots of educational materials, seminars, trade shows, etc. We’ll also continue to stay abreast with the latest developments in our current products and services.

What inspires you to succeed?

The word ‘no’ is fuel for me to try harder. Push. Push. Push. I set high standards and don’t give up. I’m not afraid to try something new and if it doesn’t work out I regroup and try it differently or try something totally different.

What piece of advice would you offer to someone thinking about starting a business in downtown?

Do the necessary research and also choose the appropriate location for your kind of business. Follow your dream. Don’t be afraid to try or to fail. Don’t give up.

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Hawaii Award Winning Spas - Mobil Travel Guide

 

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Mobil Travel Guide unveils its 2008 Mobil Travel Four- and Five-star Awards for hotels, restaurants and spas across North America.

This is a monumental year for Mobil Travel Guide as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

This year, 61 hotels, restaurants and spas in the U.S. and Canada received the five-star level.

Here are Hawaii’s Mobil Four-Star Spas

Hualalai Sports Club and Spa, Four Seasons Resort Hualalai Ka’upulehu, Kona, Hawaii

Spa Grande at The Grand Wailea Resort, Wailea, Maui

SpaHalekulani, Halekulani, Honolulu, Oahu

Spa Suites at The Kahala Hotel and Resort, Honolulu, Oahu

The Spa at Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Wailea, Maui

The Spa at Manele Bay, Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay, Lanai

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Spa Opening - Essencia Spa Therapy Salon - Amesbury MA

 

New spa moves into already busy downtown

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They are the staples of downtown: pizza places, nail salons, beauty parlors and barbers.

And now, a new spa is ready to become part of that mix.

Essencia Spa Therapy & Salon is now open for business, owner Marie Santos said yesterday.

The spa — for men and women — at 61 Main St. offers a range of services from facials to “exotic” body treatments and wraps, or makeup lessons and applications. Other options include massages, a steam room, haircuts/styling, manicures/pedicures, hair removal and spa packages.

With a staff of about 10, this is the first spa that Santos has opened. She spent a decade working in the banking field and at salons in a variety of roles from spa receptionist to spa coordinator. Santos, who lives in Groveland, recently became a licensed esthetician.

“This is definitely my field,” Santos said.

Santos, 41, originally intended to open her spa in Andover, but when that lease fell through, she began looking for other locations. It was during a trip to pick up her daughter at Flatbread Pizza Co. that she discovered the new Amesbury — a downtown drastically different from what she remembered.

“The town has changed so much,” Santos said. “They’ve done a good job.”

She acknowledges that she’s joining a crowded street.

Within walking distance of Essencia, there’s Top O’ The Morning Barber Shop, Cutters Plus, Louis’ Barber Shop, The Top Cut, Salon Jule, Salon 57, Lisa’s Shear Finesse and Perfect Nails. There’s also Utopia Massage and the Amesbury Center for Healing. On Route 110, there are a Super Cuts and Boston Hair Design and Tanning.

Essencia is joining two other spas in downtown Amesbury.

Right down Main Street is Kristin’s Hair Studio and Spa, another salon that offers massages and haircuts/styling. Around the corner on Friend Street is Raya Med-Spa, which specializes in laser treatments and skin care services, offering chemical peels, hair removal, microdermabrasion, massage therapy and Botox treatments, among other services.

The difference at Essencia is in the spa experience and customer service, Santos said.

“I wanted to make it different from what’s around here,” she said. “There’s really nothing like this around here.”

Clients will be offered refreshments, Santos explained, and following their appointment, they can visit the sitting room to relax while music plays on a a surround sound system.

Customers will feel like they are in a Boston spa on Newbury Street, she said.

“Why go to Boston when you can come here?” she said. “When they come in, they will enjoy the spa.”

At Essencia, a regular manicure is $22 and a pedicure is $50. There’s also the option of a “foot facial” — for $70 — and a “hand facial” for $45. A haircut and style starts at $45. A men’s haircut goes for between $25 and $35.

With that spa experience comes a quality of work, Santos said.

Just around the corner, at Top O’ The Morning Barber Shop, owner Karen St. Germain said Amesbury has supported beauty shops and barbers for years. She herself has been in business for eight years and offers a man’s haircut for $13 and a woman’s cut for $15.

“My general feeling is I would welcome them and wish them good luck,” St. Germain said.

Other salon owners wonder how many more Amesbury can hold.

“There’s a million of them,” said Kristin Dussault, owner of Kristin’s Spa. “It’s definitely slowed business down.”

Dussault, who lives in Newburyport, said she opened her shop in Amesbury 12 years ago. There were only about three hair salons then, she recalled.

They kept popping up as time went on, she said.

The addition of Essencia won’t take away business, Dussault said, as her shop is mostly geared toward hair and massage.

“Honestly, I think that Amesbury is full of hair salons and pizza parlors and needs to find something new,” she said. “It’s just a little discouraging that something new and exciting doesn’t open up in Amesbury.”

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Minneapolis Day Spa - Ivy Spa Club Stays Strong

 

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Exfoliate? In this economy?

A longtime Minneapolis entrepreneur says young professionals and tourists will provide a market for her new, upscale Ivy Spa Club, despite the ongoing economic chill.

Jennifer Cadwell relaxes as esthetician Tina Schaberg applies a 50-minute caviar facial Friday at the new Ivy Spa Club in downtown Minneapolis.

Recession? The only “r” word spoken at the new Ivy Spa Club in downtown Minneapolis is Ritual, as in the Ivy Ritual exfoliation, body wrap, hydrotherapy milk bath and massage treatment - 165 minutes of pure indulgence, yours for $360.

With its caviar facials, fancy fitness center with cable television on every cardio machine and prestigious location within the soon-to-open Ivy Hotel + Residences, the locally owned Ivy Spa Club raised the bar for Twin Cities day spas and health clubs when it opened Friday.

But success is not guaranteed. While monthly massages may be as common on the coasts as haircuts, Minnesotans tend to be more reluctant to treat themselves.

In 2004, the Pagoda spa in Uptown thought its lush setting would support higher prices than locals ever had paid for facials and body treatments. The spa folded within six months. The luxurious Greenhouse Spa, a fixture in other big cities, was short-lived in Edina.

Now, with the economy flailing, jobs disappearing and even the luxury retail sector, including heavyweights such as Tiffany’s and Coach, starting to feel the pinch, is there enough call for pampering to support a 17,000-square-foot spa and fitness center?

Pamela Margolis thinks so. The owner of Ivy Spa Club is new to the spa business, but as a longtime Minneapolis entrepreneur who has owned dozens of retail businesses, including dollar stores and intimate apparel shops, she felt spa services hadn’t kept pace with the Twin Cities’

“There just aren’t that many spas here,” Margolis said. “Most people in the Twin Cities don’t understand unless they’ve been to a destination spa out of town.”

Margolis was careful not to price herself out of the market, as she said Pagoda did. Still, Ivy’s prices tend to be a bit higher than other Minneapolis local spas. Spalon Montage, for example, charges $75 for a 55-minute massage, compared with $85 for 50 minutes at Ivy. At Ivy, however, patrons gain access for the day to the fitness center as well as the coed whirlpool, sauna, posh relaxation areas and state-of-the-art showers with water jets that hit from all angles.

“We’re not about rushing people in and out,” Margolis said.

More than a la carte treatments, Margolis expects club memberships to support her new facility. Prices start at $79 per month and go up to $199 for the premier membership, which includes complimentary yoga and Pilates classes, valet parking, access to the hotel concierge and discounts on spa services. As of opening day, 50 memberships had been sold.

Young downtown professionals are much more apt to indulge than their parents, Margolis said. “My generation might only visit a spa once or twice a year. For my daughter, it’s part of her life - like getting her teeth cleaned.”

That has been the trend, as the number of spas nationwide has tripled in the past seven years. But the most recent report from the International SPA Association shows spa openings are slowing and visits per spa are down slightly.

“For the longest time, the prevailing view was that luxury was golden,” said Stacy Janiak, national retail leader for accounting firm Deloitte in Minneapolis. “Clearly, there’s a cadre of super-rich not impacted by the economy. But aspirational luxury consumers - the ones that have really been driving it - are pulling back, out of necessity or out of a psychological feeling that they should.”

Experts in the hospitality industry think the Ivy Spa Club’s best customers are likely to be tourists and business travelers. The spa has a direct entrance off the skyway that leads to the Minneapolis Convention Center and is across the street from the Hilton Hotel.

“There’s a ton of demand. Businesspeople from New York and California love the idea of a spa treatment between appointments,” said Nicole Leon-Darrell, director of concierge services for the Chambers Hotel in downtown Minneapolis, which does not have a spa. The Chambers calls on individual spa professionals to come to hotel guests, but sometimes visitors who have a free afternoon, or are with a group such as a bridal party, want a destination.

There’s Jewel Spa adjacent to the Graves 601 Hotel, but it has four treatment rooms, compared with Ivy’s 14. Sanctuary Salonspa recently took over and is remodeling the Litespa space in downtown Minneapolis, but it focuses more on neighborhood business. Ivy Spa Club has its own cafe, two couples treatment rooms, a pedicure/manicure room that could accommodate at least seven clients at a time and enough space to offer private areas to groups for lounging or lunch.

Chuck Lennon, spokesman for Explore Minnesota Tourism, said a luxury facility like Ivy Spa Club is essential to the new class of tourist the metro area is drawing because of the high-profile “arts explosion” that includes the new Walker Art Center and Guthrie Theater.

“It’s been a huge story worldwide - we’ve raised the eyebrows of high-end travelers,” Lennon said. “To attract them, you have to offer high-end lodging, dining, retail, and spas are an important component.”

Leon-Darrell of the Chambers agrees that Ivy Spa Club is certain to impress even the most seasoned travelers. Minnesotans, she believes, will be a tougher sell. “It’s definitely going to depend on people coming into town who can afford a day at the spa. Local people, if they go, already have their places.”

 

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