Spa Hotels & Resorts

If you're looking for a place to alleviate stress and just unwind, luxury spa hotels may be the right places for you.

They are also often called destination hotels, exclusive hote ls and also luxury spa resorts. You will enjoy a couple of hours a day of spa treatment and therapy; and you will have the rest of the day o ff to just enjoy your vacation.

At the Athenaeum Spa in Malta , you will go through a treatment that best suits your needs. It can involve massages - Thai, Swedish,etc; water therapy - flotation, hydro massage; and aroma therapy.

A very important part of the Athenaeum Spa in Malta is the staff. These people are very helpful and cheerful, focusing mainly on wellness. They will help you throughout the whole process with mental, physical, spiritual and emotional healing as well as providing food and nutrition advices.

The emergence of spas is not recent. Earlier spas were located near a natural spring offering holistic wellness treatment to the visiting public. The term is more than often referred in conjunction with healing and curing than wellness. Spas got a make over from the Roman royals. They developed spas with a touch of class and a feel of luxury. In fact, they started using spas more or less like wellness centres, soaking in spring water, taking steam or hot air bath in a marble clad chamber, giving the body the luxury of soft massage, taking a cool dip in spring water and f inishing with a relaxing drink.

Present day hectic pace of life, a busy social lifestyle of the lap top carrying corporate executives has created a profitable business opportunity for the hospitality industry - wellness travel. The concept of wellness is quite different than curative or medical travel. Wellness is for healthy people wanting to live healthier, whereas medical travel is for patients wanting to get well. This fine distinction makes wellness travel or spa tourism an int eresting marketing proposition.

The term spa is derived from its Latin origin - salus per aquam, literally translating as water gifted health. No wonder then that the earlier wellness spots were located near natural springs as aqua therapy is considered mother of all detox therapies.

Spa business has come of age generating employment opportunities by millions. It has become very focused, specialised and professional. Spas can be classified into three categories - the day spa, offering a specific therapy, destination spa- as the name suggests, these are spas where guests stay, get healthier, have an entertaining time as the spa offers a whole range of body pampering treatments and therapies, and finally the medical spas which are more on clinical and medicine based treatments. The industry thrives on day spas in the city hotels and destination spas in resort hotels. The Athenaeum Spa in Malta offers as well day and stay packages and have a wide range of different spa facilities .