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Best Hotel Spa
A spa operating within the premises of a luxury hotel offering impressive spa facilities as well as spa services.
Best Resort Spa
A spa operating within the premises of a luxury resort offering impressive spa facilities as well as spa services.
Best Wellness Retreat
A place of escape from one’s normal daily life, offering both spa and wellness for mind, body and spirit, overall healthy lifestyle techniques and practices, including nutrition, a full programme of fitness (gym, yoga etc). A place of retreat for guests seeking to be re-energised whilst also nurtured.
Best Safari Spa
A spa operating from a property in a safari location offering bush spa services.
Best Day Spa
A day spa is a business which provides a variety of services for the purpose of improving health, beauty and relaxation, through treatments such as facials, massages, etc. Typically, a guest will visit a Day Spa without requiring accommodation.
Best Spa Destination
Destinations renowned for numerous luxury spas within one area. Destinations travellers choose to travel to, specifically for the calibre of spas on offer there.
Best Airline Lounge Spa
A luxury spa associated with an airline and located within an airlines lounge, offering travellers spa services before and/or after flights.
Best Aromatherapy Brand
A brand specialised in natural and essential oil products.
Best Beauty Salon
A luxury business dedicated to providing beauty services such as facials, make up, hair styling, manicures etc.
Best Casino Hotel Spa
A spa operating within the premises of a luxury casino hotel offering impressive spa facilities, as well as spa services.
Best Country House Hotel Spa
A spa operating within the premises of a luxury countryside hotel offering impressive spa facilities, as well as spa services.
Best Cruise Spa
A spa operating on-board a luxury cruise offering spa facilities, as well as spa services.
Best Desert Spa
A spa operating within the premises of a luxury desert hotel or resort, offering impressive spa facilities as well as spa services.
Best Detox Programme
Best Eco Spa
An eco-spa is a spa with full spa facilities that may be constructed using sustainable woods such as bamboo, energy-efficient lighting, heating and insulation, recycled or reclaimed furniture or décor. The spa or property may also offer eco related programmes.
Best Female Spa
A female only spa.
Best Hotel Spa Brand
A spa brand associated exclusively with a luxury hotel brand and operating the spas across their properties globally.
Best Male Spa
A male only spa.
Best Medical Spa
A spa that operates under the supervision of an on-site health care professional operating within their scope of practice (i.e Doctor, Dermatologists etc) integrating both spa and medical services.
Best Mineral & Hot Springs Spa
A luxury spa situated in an area that offers an on-site source of natural minerals and hot springs used in treatments.
Best Nail Studio Brand
A brand offering dedicated nail products and services.
Best New Hotel Spa
Luxury hotel spa opened within the last year.
Best New Resort Spa
Luxury resort spa opened within the last year.
Best Private Island Spa
Spa offering full facilities operating from a private island.
Best Private Spa Villas
This category is open to hotels and resorts offering Private Spa Villas where spa facilities and services are provided within the privacy of one’s own villa accommodation.
Best Spa & Wellness Tour Operator
This category is open to those companies that combine proven expertise with on the ground specialist knowledge and relationships, to give the spa and wellness tourism consumer the best value for money and the best spa and wellness holiday experiences.
Best Spa Brand
Spa product brand.
Best Spa Design
A spa with a unique architectural design.
Best Spa Signature Treatment
A spa treatment that is unique to a spa.
Best Thermal Grotto Spa
A thermal spa, which is a warm body of water believed to have special health-giving properties, situated inside a Grotto.
Best Thermal Spa & Medical Wellness Operator
Those organisations who operate a group of specialised wellness and healthcare properties offering the best thermal spa facilities alongside medical wellbeing services.
Best Wellness Travel Agency
This category is open to travel agencies who focus purely on the niche market of wellness tourism providing the consumer with the best value for money and the best overall luxury wellness holiday experiences around the world.
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