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The Parkwood Group has taken over leisure management contracting business 1Life Management Solutions Limited (1LMS Ltd), which trades as 1Life, having acquired it from its US parent company. Parkwood runs leisure and sport centres, museums, theatres and parks on behalf of local authorities in the UK. Glen Hall,
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Dave Long, co-founder and CEO of Orangetheory Fitness, has told HCM the boutique fitness franchise is aiming to expand to 100 more locations globally this year. The company currently has 1,500 studio franchises operating in 50 US states and 23 countries. Long says there are 300 more in the pipeline.
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Luxury five-star hotel and wellness facility, Palace Merano, will re-open its doors this February after totally renovating its Revital Spa. The refreshed 1,200sq m spa is just one facet of the hotel’s 6,000sq m health and wellness centre which provides medi-wellness and preventative health treatments,
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Go Fit has started work on a new wellness hub in Tenerife. It will open in Q4 of 2024 and be fully operational by the start of 2025. The company is investing €20m (£17m) into the project, which will be its second site in the Canary islands. The combined area of the hub, including indoor and outdoor facilities,
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Legendary US destination spa Mii amo in Sedona, Arizona, has relaunched after a substantial renovation and expansion project costing more than US$40m (£34.1m, €38.9m). Nestled at the base of Boynton Canyon amongst its striking natural landscape and towering red rocks, the 22-year-old resort closed for two years
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Spa and wellness veteran Teresa Flyger has left her position as director of global brand wellness at Hilton Worldwide. Having spent almost five years in the role, Flyger’s duties involved creating unique wellness spaces and guest experiences. Hilton has yet to make an announcement about who will fill the
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The Gym Group (TGG) has announced that Simon Jones has taken the role of non-executive director. This is the first appointment to come from TGG since Richard Darwin stepped down from his role as CEO and TGG founder John Treharne took over its leadership as executive chair until a new CEO is in place. "I'm
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Plans for a net-zero geothermal bathing lagoon and chalet village near Québec City, Canada are blazing a trail in sustainability. GeoLagoon, a privately funded company, is on a mission to create a relaxing nature-centric eco-village which it claims will be powered entirely by natural resources in Charlevoix, a
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Rock Steady Boxing (RSB) – a US organisation that provides non-contact boxing programmes to sufferers of Parkinson’s disease – has been awarded a grant of £5,000 from charity Parkinson’s UK. It will be used to train new coaches in the UK so the RSB programme can reach more people affected by the disease. The
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North American spa franchise Massage Heights has reported record-breaking revenues and peak company average unit volume (AUV) performance for the past year. “As stress levels continue to rise, and the medical community increasingly embraces the benefits of massage therapy, Massage Heights has provided over 1.4
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US-based fitness franchise, Workout Anytime, has confirmed that it signed deals for 49 more sites in 2022, while also opening 15. With around 200 locations operating across the US, the company says 2023 will see flagship locations open up in Arizona, New Mexico, New Jersey and Maryland as it continues to expand
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Sharecare, a US-based digital health platform, has launched a corporate scheme called Get Active which aims to increase the exercise levels of employees through VR fitness games. Sharecare ran an eight-week pilot in 2022 with property development company Lennar Corporation, which produced such positive results
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Andy King, chair of Manchester's GM Active, has taken the role of CEO at non-profit MCR Active. King brings more than twenty years of sports leadership experience to the position. MCR Active was established in 2019 by Manchester City Council to increase activity levels in the community. After an initial phase
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have found a way to establish the exact VO2 max of an individual through the use of smartwatch data that is as accurate as a professional sports lab test. VO2 max refers to the maximum volume of oxygen used during exercise and is considered to be the gold standard measure
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The second phase of the UK’s MSK (musculoskeletal) health hub pilot will see the service rolled out to an additional 85 swimming pools and leisure centres this month. The scheme – a collaboration between UK Active, Good Boost, Orthopaedic Research UK, Escape Pain and Arthritis Action – launched last year
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Carowinds theme park in North Carolina, US, has launched year-round operations this month (January 2023). The park has introduced additional weekends to the calendar in January, February and early March, with regular park operation continuing throughout the rest of the year. The added winter operating days
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Google has let go of 31 massage therapists after senior leadership cut its global staff base by 12,000 employees. According to California state documents, the massage therapists were laid off from four of the company’s California locations. Twenty-seven masseuses have been let go from the Mountain View
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GOCO Hospitality, global wellness consulting, development and management company, has appointed seasoned hospitality executive Nicholas Clayton as president of its recently-launched GOCO America divison. In this newly created role, Clayton will guide the wider expansion of GOCO projects in America, including
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The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has unveiled its annual trends report predicting the trends set to dominate the global health and wellness industry in 2023. Containing individual chapters dedicated to each trend, the 160-page 2023 Future of Wellness report was unveiled today at a media event in New York
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A large new hot springs and spa destination is coming to downtown Palm Springs, California, this April. Located on 5.8 acres of sacred land owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, The Spa at Séc-he is named after the area’s sacred Agua Caliente Hot Mineral Spring claimed to be 12,000 years old and
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Norwegian startup Play Pulse is preparing to launch its indoor gaming bike in April 2023. The concept features integrated game controllers (which also track heart rate), custom-made games, streaming services and workouts that only function if the user is pedalling. The team are currently still taking pre-orders
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Disney has filed a planning application that kickstarts the group's plans to create a future regional campus and HQ in Florida, US. The application also indicates that the new campus could include an additional gate for Disney's Orlando theme park, Walt Disney World The proposals show a 1.8million sq ft
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A new think tank called the Wellness Access Institute (WAI – pronounced why) has launched to help the industry address its biggest problems and drive research-based innovation. WAI was founded by entrepreneurs Greg Macpherson and Warren Liu after they previously worked together in the preventive health field
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The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has announced the appointment of two international wellness thought leaders to its Advisory Board. Amir Alroy is co-founder of Welltech Ventures, a leading VC fund investing in wellness and health innovation headquartered in Tel Aviv. Veronica Schreibeis Smith, AIA, NCARB, LEED
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