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Spa Luxury in Las Vegas

OK, I’ve kept you waiting long enough to find out the answer to the question I asked in my last blog entry: Which spa does more than 1,000 spa treatments per day? This was one of the tidbits shared by Gary Milner, VP of Legal and Development for Canyon Ranch, speaking on the panel “Inspirational Management for Financial Success” at the London Spa Convention. He was referring to the Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Wow – that’s a lot of relaxation. My hats off to any spa that can accomplish that volume of service at the high standards Canyon Ranch is known for.
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Las Vegas spas have always had a reputation for size (Spa at the Bellagio is 90,000 square feet in size), extravagant ambiance (Elemis at the Aladdin resembles a Moroccan palace), and producing some of the highest revenue in the spa world (I hear estimates of 10, 20, and now pushing $30 million a year). But I never did the math on how many treatments that works out to be per day and so hearing 1,000 made me pause. (And Gary went on to mention that they could actually do 2,000 per day if all the treatment rooms were utilized during the wee hours of the morning!)

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Greetings from Rainy London…

Today I had lunch with some fellow spa professionals. One was from Hong Kong, one was from Bali, one from Australia, and another from the UK. Later in the afternoon I had tea with a spa colleague from Dubai, chatted with spa owners from Brazil, and was introduced to a spa owner from Turkey.

london bike13 741502 798187 Greetings from Rainy London...I am in London at the moment attending the London International Spa Convention for the third year in a row – one of my favorite spa conferences in the world because it attracts such an international mix of spa professionals and because I love the clever way they have organized it. It is held in conjunction with a very large Beauty and Spa Exhibition (over 450 companies) where I get to see and try out all the newest spa products and equipment.

There are approximately 40 speakers, and everyone presents as a panel of four with ten-minute presentations from each panelist. This is followed by some Q & A. Result? No boring speeches! They are strict about the ten-minute time limit; if you go on longer than that, they get the cane out. With a seven-slide limit and the snappy pace, it is a joy to hear the speakers and to be one of the presenters. My presentation was on 2006 Spa Trends.

In the next few blogs I’ll share some insights for those of you who are interested in the “tidbits” that I jot down in my notebook while listening to the presentations and the industry gossip that invariably is part of the “networking.”

Such as: Can you guess what spa performs more than 1,000 spa treatments per day?

Stay tuned.

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