This year the Good Spa Awards introduced new categories to reflect the challenges caused by the pandemic. These include Best Response to Covid, Best Community Spa and Best Sustainable Spa. In addition, other awards included Best New Spa, Best Outdoor Facilities and Best Spa for Wellness. Spas in Cheshire, Penrith, Yorkshire, Berkshire and West Sussex all received accolades at the virtual event, hosted and […]
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Chiva-Som Brings Its Wellness Philosophy to Qatar
By The Healthcare Holiday on 25th November 2020 in General, Latest News, Medical Tourism, Medical Travel, Medispas, Middle East, Trade, Wellness Holidays
Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som is set to open next year in Qatar as the newest wellness destination. Zulal Wellness Resort is the first management undertaking by market-leading wellness resort brand Chiva-Som, whose award winning flagship resort is located in Hua Hin in Thailand. The new wellness destination in Qatar will be the largest in the country, […]
A New Dawn On Wellness
By The Healthcare Holiday on 25th September 2020 in Destinations, General, India, Latest News, Medical Tourism, Medical Travel, Post COVID-19, Wellness Holidays
We have experienced the unexpected opportunity to slow down giving us time to re-evaluate our lifestyles and invest in ourselves. We have been given time to rebalance the mind, body and soul. This bubble of time has placed wellness uppermost in our minds. Our usual lifestyle routines and beliefs have shifted towards a general focus […]
The Silver Travel Awards
Cruises and rail journeys, city escapes, country retreats and those bucket-list adventures were presented before us as living proof that travel is truly alive, inspiring our future holidays while casting us back to those memorable travel moments. In a creative virtual ceremony, The Silver Travel Awards were announced to an audience of hundreds of […]
Healthy Ageing in Austria at La Pura
By The Healthcare Holiday on 15th August 2020 in Destinations, Austria, Europe, Healthy Ageing, Medispas, Reviews, Reviews Europe
Welcome to Gender Medicine I’m suspended over a pool of deep water. A jet of water is shooting at tight muscles, aimed by a highly proficient and reassuring therapist. This was not torture, quite the opposite. It was an underwater, extension therapy, designed to relieve joints and misaligned sections of the spine. Twenty minutes later, […]
Slow travel in Laos
In the cloak of fading darkness, shadows appear in the delicate hues of a new dawn. An apparition of tangerine-robed figures take shape from the soft glow oozing from the temple before me. One by one, in silent reverence, a procession of figures tread the morning journey, respecting social distancing, sombre, eerily quiet. Barefooted, young, […]
Sipping Sherry in Spain
By The Healthcare Holiday on 15th August 2020 in Uncategorised, Europe, Reviews, Reviews Spain, Spain
It was a family tradition on a Sunday, compulsory at Christmas. Thick, sweet and rather potent I recall but the fashionable tipple of the time. But in the Spanish city of Jerez, the mecca of sherry, there’s certainly a lot of sipping going on…. Home to the world’s finest producers, sherry is the key […]
Covid-Aware Wellness Experiences In The UK
By The Healthcare Holiday on 4th August 2020 in Destinations, General, Latest News, London Wellness, Natural, Post COVID-19, U.K., Wellness United Kingdom
Whether its underwater or by the river’s shore, check out the latest wellness experiences around the UK DIVE INTO WELLNESS AND SCUBA WITH PADI Live in the moment….capture your mind and tone your body. Think of diving as an alternative way to scuba into wellbeing. With thoughts rippling amid the tranquillity beneath the water’s surface, […]
Guest Soul Reset at The Mandrake
By The Healthcare Holiday on 17th July 2020 in General, Latest News, London Wellness, Mind and Spirit, Post COVID-19, U.K.
Soul Reset is a new package offered by a London hotel to meet the needs of post-lockdown guests. The Mandrake, a boutique hotel in Fitzrovia London is tailoring stays that provide reimagined spiritual wellbeing. Recent surveys have found that 44% of people feel more concerned about their mental health than usual and that Covid19 […]
Switzerland’s Star Locations
A gondola, a tree tent or a cosy hotel room, a mountain peak, a city rooftop or in fragrant wildflower meadows. Switzerland has pinpointed 50 top locations for its guests to enjoy the stars and view of the night sky. Switzerland Tourism, together with its project partners (including hotels, B&Bs, private accommodation providers and […]
