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Techno Gizmos Sensors and Other Wonderment Devices Combined with Social Networking: A Boon for Wellness or a Road to Perdition?

A dazzling variety of high tech sensors are escalating the use of social networks. Wellites beware!   By: Donald B. Ardell, trustedmd.com, featured in Wellness Report   A new wave of technological gizmo wonders is seen by many as a big help for wellness seekers. New devices are in play by doctors, coaches, health educators [...]


Global Spa Summit’s 2011 Student Challenge Winners Announced The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s New Franchise Concept – the Modular, Mobile “Yi Spa” – Grabs Top Prize

New York, NY– July 6, 2011 – The Global Spa Summit (GSS), the premier event for the spa and wellness industries, formally announced the winners of its third annual “Student Challenge” competition today. This year the challenge was to create a spa business concept that is not only innovative and aesthetically pleasing, but completely feasible [...]


Read all about it!…The Global Spa Summit’s Newest Co-chair for 2012 in Aspen!

Bourguignon Named to Global Spa Summit’s Board of Directors The Global Spa Summit (GSS) said that Philippe Bourguignon, vice chairman of Revolution Places, a division of investment firm Revolution LLC, has been named to the organization’s board of directors. In addition to helping steer the future directions of the leading annual conference for the global [...]


“Sold Out” 2011 Global Spa Summit Makes Presentations, And Historic Amount of New Research, Available to World

Information Designed to Help Industry “Engage the Change” – And Tackle New Markets, Business Models and Technologies – Now Available Online New York, NY June 9, 2011 – The Global Spa Summit reported today that its recent conference in Bali, Indonesia from May 15-18 was sold out. The fifth-annual conference, held for the first time [...]


Just in Case You Weren’t Able to Make it to The Summit this Year…

Anne McCall Wilson Addresses Delegates Opening Global Spa Summit 2011 in Bali! INTRODUCTION I am so honored to be Co-Chairing the event this year with Susie Ellis and Jeff Mathews.     This has been an exciting and busy year and I have a new appreciation for the work and commitment of Susie and Dulcy Gregory and [...]


Philippe Bourguignon Named to Global Spa Summit’s 2012 Board of Directors!

Vice Chairman of Revolution Places and Former Co-CEO of the World Economic Forum Tapped to Help Shape Organization’s Future New York, NY June 7, 2011 – The Global Spa Summit (GSS) announced today that Philippe Bourguignon, Vice Chairman of Revolution Places, a division of investment firm Revolution LLC, has been appointed to the organization’s Board [...]