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Forbes Travel Guide – 2023 Star Awards Winners
Forbes Travel Guide – 2023 Star Award Winners Recently the Forbes Travel Guide 2023 Star Award Winners were announced, which includes categories for the world’s finest hotels, restaurants, spas, and – new this year – ocean cruises. Forbes is recognized as the only independent, global rating system for luxury hotels, restaurants, and spas. They rate the best of the best, nearly 2000 hotels in more than 81 countries, evaluating properties based on up to 900 objective standards. We congratulate all the award winners, especially our clients receiving this acknowledgment of their excellence: Agua Caliente Casino and Resort, Rancho Mirage, California Awana…
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These Wellness Resorts Are Surging In Popularity—Here’s Why
FORBES – There has always been a strong link between water and wellness. Here are some top spas from the Blu Spas design team that incorporate water in their wellness offerings.
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Rethinking Wellness in Hotel Design
HOTEL INSIDER – by Doug Chambers The wellness world is at an interesting inflection point with key competing issues: labor shortage, increased demand for spa services from consumers, and recognition of disparities in access to wellness.
How best should the industry respond when each of these interests confounds the other?
BARRON’S – Worldwise: Spa Designer Cary Collier’s Favorite Things
BARRON’S – As a young child born and raised in west Texas, among cattle feed yards and ranching, Cary Collier always dreamed of becoming a cowboy. Instead, Collier, now 62 and living in Whitefish, Montana, took a decidedly different path: He has made a career in running and designing spas.
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Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans with rooftop infinity pool and panoramic Mississippi River views
SPA BUSINESS – Four Seasons has opened the doors to a brand new luxury hotel spa in downtown New Orleans, within its Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans. Spa and wellness consultancy Blu Spas was brought on board to conceptualise the spa
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Kicking Back In The Texas Hill Country At The La Cantera Resort & Spa
COWBOYS & INDIANS – Once I arrived at the La Cantera Resort & Spa, I knew I was in for a few days of true relaxation. Although the resort is only 20 minutes from the airport and nearby attractions, you’re instantly transported deep into the Texas Hill Country upon arrival.
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designstudio ltd channels Louis XVI’s Versailles to create AWAY Spa at the W Philadelphia
SPA BUSINESS – The AWAY Spa at the W Philadelphia is part of the 51-story dual-branded hotel in Philadelphia, billed as a love letter to Philadelphia.
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Ritz-Carlton Reserve to debut in Costa Rica with tree-house spa and private residences
SPA BUSINESS – The first Ritz-Carlton location in Costa Rica will launch in 2024, situated within the 1,400-acre private club and resort community Peninsula Papagayo. Spa and wellness consultancy Blu Spas has been working on the project since 2018 to help create programming, project design and concept.
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Blu Spas INC Elevates Spa Design With First Ever “Art of Aufguss” Social Event Space at Resorts World Las Vegas
BLU SPAS – The Blu Spas design team’s goal was to create a new way to “spa” when they helped envisioned Awana Spa & Wellness at Resorts World Las Vegas, which just opened its doors in September 2021.
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