Raison d'etre news
24 Feb 2026
IHG has revealed details of the new Regent Spa and Wellness concept it intends to
05 May 2025
Details have been revealed for the spa and wellness concept for The Newman in London
02 Mar 2023
UAE wellness brand Kintsugi has appointed consultancy Glowing Flow Wellness Specialists – founded by Patrizia
17 Jan 2022
Sensei, the wellness brand owned by tech billionaire Larry Ellison, has appointed Annika Jackson as
19 Nov 2020
Sauna from Finland has announced it is hosting the 2020 World Sauna Forum virtually on
10 Dec 2019
Raison d’Etre has committed to raising its existing environmental standards with a new green strategy,
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
11 Jan 2019
Spa consultancy and wellness think tank Raison d'Etre (RDE) has identified five key wellness trends
12 Nov 2018
Ian Bell, senior project manager at global spa consultancy and wellness 'Think Tank' Raison d'Etre
01 Nov 2018
Spa consultancy Raison d’Etre’s spa brand LivNordic is collaborating with Sauna From Finland to help
11 Jun 2018
Spa consultancy firm Raison d'Etre's (RdE) has named the 'break-up break' as an essential trend
21 Dec 2017
Global spa consultancy Raison d’Etre has launched a Think Tank for Wellness to provide tools
17 Jul 2017
Spa Business Education (SBE), part of spa consultancy Raison d'Etre, has secured an educational partnership
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
23 May 2017
Spa Business Education – the educational arm of the Raison d’Etre Group – has launched
10 Oct 2016
The W group's Amsterdam hotel has been extended with the renovation of the historic Bank
04 Oct 2016
Spa operator Raison d’Etre will open a two-storey, 4,600sq m (49,514sq ft) LivNordic Spa at
17 May 2016
Raison d’Etre’s LivNordic spa has officially opened a 1,000sq m location on the 6th floor
22 Feb 2016
Spa and wellness consultancy firm Raison d’Etre is designing, consulting and managing the launch of
13 Aug 2015
Raison d’Etre is set to launch the first LivNordic-branded spa in the UAE on the
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
23 Jun 2015
Nikos Kouremenos, area spa director for Raison d’Etre, is set to hand over spa operations
02 Jun 2015
Raison d’Etre’s spa and wellness brand LivNordic has launched the first of three spas planned
24 Apr 2015
Spa and wellness consultancy Raison d’Etre has appointed Anna-Cari Gund – president of global association
25 Mar 2015
The Baccarat Hotel in Manhattan – which Beijing-based Sunshine Insurance bought from hotel manager Starwood
16 Feb 2015
Raison d’Etre has entered into a strategic partnership with Cayan Group, a Middle Eastern real
09 Feb 2015
Anna Bjurstam, vice president of Spa & Wellness at Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas and
18 Nov 2014
Leading spa consultancy Raison D’Etre has updated its online spa management training programme with extended
28 Aug 2014
The Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) has announced the final daily programme for its
06 Feb 2013
Operator Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas is embarking on a new "era of expansion" after
31 Aug 2012
Image: The management course will be based on six modules Sweden-based spa consultancy Raison d'Etre
31 Jan 2012
Sweden-based spa consulting firm Raison d'Etre has launch its new LivNordic spa brand, which has
04 Jan 2012
Anna Bjurstam, managing director of Swedish spa consultancy Raison d'Etre has predicted that personal treatment
07 Oct 2011
A new women-only spa will open in the Al-Saad area in Doha, Qatar. The Venus
13 Sep 2011
Spa consultancy Raison d'Etre has launched a new Spa Operational Support (SOS) scheme for the
17 Aug 2011
Spa consultancy Raison d'Etre has devised a new spa concept in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that
25 Jul 2011
Anna Bjurstam, who took over the sole ownership of spa consultancy Raison d'Etre in April,
10 May 2011
The co-founder of spa consultancy Raison d'Etre, Rosamond Freeman-Attwood, and business partner Kasha Shillington have
18 Aug 2010
A late 2010 opening date has been confirmed for the Egnathia Spa at the Borgo
09 Aug 2010
Shortlists for the 11 categories of the European Hotel Design Awards 2010 have been revealed.
09 Jun 2010
A luxury spa inspired by the bathhouses of ancient Rome called the Egnathia Spa is
08 Feb 2010
Marking its expansion into the Middle Eastern market in 2010, the Rocco Forte Collection (RFC)
25 Jan 2010
The Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski in Munich, Germany, has become the second Kempinski hotel to
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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Deena Gillan
Chair of UK Active’s Independent Council and GM at 3-1-5“There are so many dedicated people in the independent sector – they work hard because they’re passionate about changing lives”
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Record market penetration in the UK
fitness sector masks a deeper shift
around consumer engagement, according
to a report from Grant Thornton and
UK Active, as Liz Terry reports
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