The Spa Manager's Essential Guide /

The Spa Manager's Essential Guide contains all the basic day to day information on how to run a wellness, beauty or thermal spa operation successfully. It focuses on those areas that industry leaders have identified as critical and missing in today's spa leaders, combined with advice from...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Authors: Wallace, Mike (Author), Smith, Melanie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wolvercote, Oxford : Goodfellow Publishers, Limited, 2020
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Forward -- 1 The importance of customer care and service design in the spa environment -- Good and bad customer service -- The status of the customer -- Customer service communication -- Service design -- 2 Leadership skills in the spa environment -- Presentation -- Qualities needed in a spa manager -- 3 Effective team management in the spa environment -- Human resource in the spa environment -- 4 Selling and marketing a spa successfully -- Types of guests -- Hotel sales & marketing department -- Spa sales & marketing -- Harvesting (selling) 
505 8 |a Problem solving sales performance -- 5 Financial management in spas -- Financial basics -- Clarity of financial reports -- Summary of reading a spa P & L -- Preparing a budget -- Forecasting -- Benchmarking and KPIs -- 6 Quality management in the spa environment -- Spa brand standards -- Daily checks -- Managing guest satisfaction -- 7 Health and safety and water handling -- Risk assessments -- Hygiene, chemicals and water handling -- Other risks -- Common health and safety regulations -- Children in spas -- 8 Spa definitions, history, facility types, challenges, treatments and trends 
505 8 |a What is a 'spa'? -- A brief history -- Spa facility types -- Common spa treatments -- Spa and beauty product lines -- Current trends -- 9 Health, wellness, mental and spiritual wellness -- Health -- Mental and spiritual wellness -- Measuring happiness -- The transformational wellness trend in spas -- Stress and de-stress programs -- Ayurveda and spiritual spas -- 10 Physical fitness and nutrition, detox, weight loss and active programs -- Physical fitness -- Diet and nutrition -- Sleep -- 11 Mineral/thermal springs, spa hotels and balneotherapy -- Thermal/mineral springs, thalasso and spa hotels 
505 8 |a Introduction to mineral and thermal water -- The medical stay -- 12 Experience design and developing spa concepts -- Developing spa concepts, spa design and branding -- Sustainability and spas -- Conclusion -- Index 
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