The Asia-Pacific desk
Executive spa programmes for Asia-Pacific: resort spas in Thailand, Bali, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, Singapore and Hong Kong hotel spas, Australian bathhouses, wellness retreats and the region's operator groups.
The Institute's roots are here — the network's first institute was founded in Singapore in 2005 — and the region still trains more spa managers than any other. The desk runs cohorts in the Asia-Pacific band with material on resort spa economics in Thailand, Bali, the Maldives and Sri Lanka; hotel spas in Singapore and Hong Kong; the bathhouse boom in Australia; and wellness retreats, where the retreat management course on the Institute of Spa Management is the usual prerequisite.
Faculty
A regional spa director for a Southeast Asian resort operator and a Maldives resort general manager; named on cohort pages.
Network
Regional marketplaces: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, India; Australia on SpasAustralia.directory; New Zealand on SpasNewZealand.com.
Programmes in this band
All programmes
Running a spa inside a hotel: the owner, the brand, the GM, the asset manager — and how the spa earns its place on the P&L.
For the people who own the spa rather than run it: valuation, operator agreements, KPIs to demand, and when to intervene.
Feasibility, programming and design brief for spas, bathhouses and wellness residences — before the architect is hired.
Questions
Is India covered here?
India's manager-level and vocational education runs through the sister institutes and SpasIndia.com; executive cohorts for Indian hotel groups run in this band.