6 tips to fill your wellness center in Summer

The hotel is filled ,  the beach burst, the pool loungers are reserved from early but our beautiful spa practically empty …

sauna calor

We a haver  heard the comment “Oh what a  heat, so I do not want anything to use the spa” … Sounds familiar? You want to increase profitability and revenues also your spa during warmer months.

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Vine the new trendy marketing videosharing toll

Since over a month  when Twitter launched it’s new application Vine,, we have heard a lot about it. This is  social video sharing like You tube, but the new thing is this app lets you record and share videos on twitter, facebook  and on the page itself.

vine-app-screenshots

All of us that are using the microblogging are used to reduce our messages up to 180 characters, but with this new tool we will have to be be able to make an advertising campaign   in just six seconds.

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QR codes a range of possibilities for tourism

QR Codes is a practical marketing tool, very easy and very cheap
Taking “Tapas” in San Sebastian Bask Country and see the ingredients both in  French or English, find an original find a mosaic in the cobbled streets of Lisbon and  uploadded  tourist information and photos about the city, or visit the Miro Foundation and easy get  information about the work scope and the  painter … and all this just approaching your phone closer to a code to read it.  These are some of the advantages of the QR codes

 

There are many ways of relating to our client, but looking at consumer trends, we have to be especially outstanding those based on interaction with the mobile phone.

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Valentine’s day an opportunity to our hotel, spa or restaurant business

As each February at this point of the month comes the dreaded Valentine’s Day and we face the question of what to do this year. Whether you are someone who love this day as if you think a commercial development, surely you’ll appreciate a perfume created especially for you, a hot chocolate massage or a trip to a spa hotel in the middle of the cold snow.

So as managers of our hotel, spa and beauty centers, we should not miss this opportunity to create a tempting offer to publicize our businesses to reach local customers, to break the seasonality of winter, to raise awareness the food in our restaurant or to end product stock you had stored …

So get to work, let’s do something different and put a romantic note in our routine work.

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FITUR 2013. Innovation, technology and budget cuts.

 

From January 30th to February 3rd was the thirty-third edition of the International Tourism Fair FITUR 2013, the most important event of the Spanish tourism sector in Madrid, under the title “All destinations, all businesses”

The fair this year has started investing in innovation and technology, measures to tackle the crisis. For the first time, you could download the Fitur application, visit the bathroom of the future, the Balearic”stand paperless”  or take a salsa class with virtual reality.

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IV Conference Energy Efficiency in the Hotel Industry of ITH. Valencia

 The last wednesday 21th November, was the fourth edition of the lecture  on sustainability and energy efficiency in the city of Valencia , inside the official program of the Spanish Hoteliers Congress, organized by the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation CEHAT.

This conference  organized by ITH Hotel Technology Institute and sponsored by Gas Natural Fenosa, Buderus Bosch Group, TÜV Rheinland, Aquasonic and Schneider Electric was intended to show   from a global point of view, the different possibilities that the market offers in terms of energy efficiency for hoteliers.

The event was attended among others.

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An authentic and luxurious experience. Barcelo Asia Gardens

Authentic and luxurious Thai Spa in Benidorm

I would like to share my opinion on this blog about the different spas I’ve been visiting. To begin with a positive review I will choose one of the spas that I liked most, the Thai Spa Asia Gardens Hotel.
First let’s start with the hotel, a 5 star Asian style Hotel, belonging to the spanish  chain Barceló.  The room was comfortable and well equipped,  the various outdoor pools some heated, lush gardens and the atmosphere of the hotel itself make you feel directly transported to Asia, despite you

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The new Spa Manager. Education key to success

The new Spa Manager. Education key to success

 When selecting a spa manager, facing the challenges of the industry today,   we might ask some  questions.

Traditionally, the spa manager, is a professional from

the world of therapies or aesthetics, and because of their experience and knowledge becomes responsible for the rest of his teammates and facilities management.

Furthermore, and in order to maximize revenue, implementing marketing policies and other strategies, another spa manager is introduced in the sector  with higher
business and administrative skills.

But what really  need to know a spa manager?

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