Therme Group’s Romanian bathing resort Therme Bucharest is currently hosting its Herbarium Festival (4-17 May), offering guests a chance to explore sauna and steamroom experiences performed by 92 aufguss sauna masters and therapists from 26 countries.

Public sector leisure and physical activity services in the UK are increasingly being customised to local needs via place-based initiatives, we talk to those driving change

The global wellness economy surged to an all-time high valuation of US$6.3 trillion in 2023 – meaning it has broken records for the third year running – according to brand-new research from the Global Wellness Institute (GWI).

On the launch of You Fit’s hotel health club and spa contract management service

Althought local lockdowns are impacting gyms in Melbourne and also the state of Victoria, most gyms across Australia and New Zealand began reopening in mid-May. Key operators have been sharing their learnings with HCM magazine.

Arvinda Gohil has been appointed CEO of Central YMCA. Gohil joins the health and wellbeing charity from London-based Community Links, where she was CEO.

US-based Franchise-based health club chain Orangetheory Fitness has opened its 500th studio in Seattle-Ballard, Washington, US.

Emergency services in Scotland are treating 'multiple casualties' following a chemical leak in the swimming pool of East Sands Leisure Centre in Fife.

1Life is opening its second facility of 2014 as part of a five year extension of its leisure services contract with Wokingham Borough Council.

Finalists for the new-look 2014 Flame Awards were announced yesterday afternoon by ukactive CEO David Stalker during a live webinar.

Fitness and leisure provider, and facilities management company, Leisure Connection, has announced an investment of more than £1m in improvements and upgrades on 11 leisure centres across the UK.

David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) has unveiled plans to open a new £8m sports, health and leisure facility near Worcester's Sixways Stadium later this year - the group's 81st site in the UK.

A cutting-edge medical complex is to be built at The Greenbrier – a luxury health-focused resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US.

Leisure sector organisations have issued a mixed response to the chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) published yesterday (20 October). George Osborne announced a 25 per cent cut in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) budget, which will run over the course of the review period to 2014-15.

The Bannatyne Group has announced plans to invest £16m in a portfolio of new hotels, spas and health clubs during 2008.

Edinburgh Leisure hosted three free ceilidhs on 30 November in honour of St Andrew’s Day, but with a difference – each dance was held in one of its swimming pools.

Wigan International Pool and Howe Bridge Sports Centre, operated by Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust, have both been awarded Quest status, the quality standard award for sports and leisure facilities in the UK.