Raison d'Etre news

UAE wellness brand Kintsugi has appointed consultancy Glowing Flow Wellness Specialists – founded by Patrizia Bortolin and Stefano Battaglia – to assist with its development. ... More

Sensei, the wellness brand owned by tech billionaire Larry Ellison, has appointed Annika Jackson as general manager and Michael Conte as retreat director of the ... More

Sauna from Finland has announced it is hosting the 2020 World Sauna Forum virtually on 3 and 4 December, to help educate more people in ... More

Raison d’Etre has committed to raising its existing environmental standards with a new green strategy, launching in 2020. Anna-Cari Gund, Raison d’Etre’s MD, spoke to ... More

Spa consultancy and wellness think tank Raison d'Etre (RDE) has identified five key wellness trends for spas, hotels and lifestyle operators to look out for ... More

Ian Bell, senior project manager at global spa consultancy and wellness 'Think Tank' Raison d'Etre (RDE), has revealed details of the formula the company uses ... More

Spa consultancy Raison d’Etre’s spa brand LivNordic is collaborating with Sauna From Finland to help spas and consumers discover the importance of authentic sauna practice. ... More

Spa consultancy firm Raison d'Etre's (RdE) has named the 'break-up break' as an essential trend for the spa and wellness industries. Billed as an 'anti-trend' ... More

Global spa consultancy Raison d’Etre has launched a Think Tank for Wellness to provide tools and resources for businesses to grow through wellbeing. The think ... More

Spa Business Education (SBE), part of spa consultancy Raison d'Etre, has secured an educational partnership with the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Austria. Targeting ... More

Spa Business Education – the educational arm of the Raison d’Etre Group – has launched five new training courses for professionals in the spa, beauty ... More

The W group's Amsterdam hotel has been extended with the renovation of the historic Bank building, which houses a 300sq m (3,229sq ft) Away Spa ... More

Spa operator Raison d’Etre will open a two-storey, 4,600sq m (49,514sq ft) LivNordic Spa at the Katara Beach Club in the Katara Cultural Village in ... More

Raison d’Etre’s LivNordic spa has officially opened a 1,000sq m location on the 6th floor of Dubai’s twisting Cayan Tower after a soft opening earlier ... More

Spa and wellness consultancy firm Raison d’Etre is designing, consulting and managing the launch of the 3,500sq m (37,674sq ft) Ki Spa, set to open ... More

Raison d’Etre is set to launch the first LivNordic-branded spa in the UAE on the sixth floor of Cayan Tower, offering panoramic views of the ... More

Nikos Kouremenos, area spa director for Raison d’Etre, is set to hand over spa operations of Soma Bay Thalasso & Spa in Egypt as he ... More

Raison d’Etre’s spa and wellness brand LivNordic has launched the first of three spas planned on cruise ships as part of a partnership with Viking ... More

Spa and wellness consultancy Raison d’Etre has appointed Anna-Cari Gund – president of global association for beauty and spa therapist accreditation CIDESCO International – as ... More

The Baccarat Hotel in Manhattan – which Beijing-based Sunshine Insurance bought from hotel manager Starwood for US$230m (€210m, £154m) earlier this year – reopened on ... More

Raison d’Etre has entered into a strategic partnership with Cayan Group, a Middle Eastern real estate developer, to create a spa on the sixth floor ... More

Anna Bjurstam, vice president of Spa & Wellness at Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas and owner of Raison d'Etre, discussed spa retail revenue in an ... More

Leading spa consultancy Raison D’Etre has updated its online spa management training programme with extended modules, new material and new lectures. Launched in 2012, the ... More

The Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) has announced the final daily programme for its eighth annual conference between 10-12 September, where delegates from more ... More

Operator Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas is embarking on a new "era of expansion" after appointing a new top team and announcing plans to build ... More