New York, NY (PRWEB) June 26, 2012
The Global Spa Summit (GSWS), the leading annual event for spa and wellness industry leaders, today announced the winners of its fourth annual edition of the Spa Future Challenge student competition. The top honors went to the University of Denver for his creative energy spa for teenage girls, while Cornell University, the University of Houston and Penn State University received second and third prizes respectively.
Summit 2012, with its theme of innovation through imagination, was carried out in collaboration with the Aspen Institute, and teams of students presented their designs to hundreds ?industry executives gathered at the prestigious think tank in June. Previous winners include The Challenge of International Hotel Management Institute of Paris (2009), University of Southern California (2010) and the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (2011).
Each year
leading universities present their designs to the spa?s most innovative and potentially profitable in the future, competing for cash prizes and recognition of the global industry. The student teams are responsible for developing all the conceptual and financial details of your project, and then is assigned a professional architect to bring your ideas to life.
standing ovation from the University of Denvers Defiant! Spa
not only the first prize, but a standing ovation, went to the University of Denvers Defiant!, a pampering spa that rejects the paternalistic-and-bright-pink manicure spa model typical teenager to cope with the emotional, physical and social needs of real girls. Mind spa and Cornell University study, which re-imagine the strong, the body exclusively focused in the gym as a sanctuary of social and intellectual engagement, took second place honors. University Pennsylvania State University greenhouse concept, marrying strong sustainability practices with a focus on southern hospitality, and the University of Houston ModerNature social, spa, revolving around the principles of the Slow movement, tied third.
The judges were surprised with the quality, detail and creativity in the presentation to schools, many students watching these delivered the most innovative, thoughtful business plan that the majority of professional consultants do , said Professor Mary Tabacchi from Cornell, co-coordinator of the Student Challenge. Many delegates said they employ these students in a heartbeat.
Sue Harmsworth, Challenge co-coordinator and executive director and founder of ESPA International also noted, as an important research report just released at the Summit * revealed that there is a gap of industry talent, with many more jobs for well educated spa operators and managers who can fill these and other outstanding students from around the world and pursue a career in this industry have a very bright future ahead.
hot issues discussed at the summit in 2012 included the need spas more aggressively to address mental well-being, to reach younger people (in health habits for life form), to embrace new technologies that can forge connections ongoing customer support, bolder and sustainability practices ? all of which, interestingly, were the key elements of the winning students? projects.
Sponsors: Awards for students, airfare, accommodation and registration fees for conferences were generously subscribed to the target spa known, we Chiva; powers of the hotel, the Hyatt and Four Seasons; main Klafs manufacturer landmark hotel and spa and adventure travel company, Orient Express.
Judges
Thanisr Chaturongkul, CFO, Chiva Som Adrian Egger, Managing Director of the Division of Spa Klafs, Christopher Norton, Chairman, Working Group on Global Spa, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Niamh O?Connell, vice president Spa Operations, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts panel of judges made up of experts.
2012 Spa
future winners:
1st Place: University of Denver ($ 1,000 dollar prize)
Student team: Lian Duan, Molly Tompkins, Jing Wan
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Young Cherri
Partner Architect: Cameron Zentz, director of HBA Architects
Concept ? challenging!
30% of U.S. spas may offer treatments for adolescents, but usually at the last moment, often with a cheesy, gum environment. Challenging! adopts a challenging new approach, dedicated to helping independent today, stressed, body-conscious teenage girls to be mentally and physically safe. Conceived as a fourth girls (not home, school, shopping center), self-care, self-acceptance and support (by staff exclusively female) play leading roles.
In his slide
D-card life on the debut (reception) girls come in a fun, high technology, the social site. ? Daydream can hang the pillow and iPad full central hall, where you can sort of healthy coffee, Devour ? or hit the Den of debauchery with their baths and dripping fang girl dirty foot drop rain. Defined in (the gym) hip-hop dance, punk aerobics and meditation are offered to disable (the spa treatments with shorter, affordable) girls can get acne treatments or post-football-massage legs devotion, teens meet in private with the support staff with problems they face. Enrichment program (the Defiant! Website and applications, and all the spa) extends through motivational speeches of directors of the women tips on how to deal with bad girls. The intelligent technology abounds: rewards for Foursquare check-ins, which allows parents to confirm that your daughter is in line with security at the spa. Smart marketing strategies also abound: from the wide range of holiday packages and membership levels (always bring reward friends), approaches to local flash mob.
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Secondly
: Cornell University ($ 500USD prize)
Equipment required: Mariko Fujiko-White, Andrea Menotti, Hamid Peezeshkian, Yuliya Teterina
Associate Architect: Hugo Gagnon, founder, Hugo Gagnon Studio Architects, Architecture and Design DCYSA
Concept ? mind spa and studio
For people disabled by
strong, competitive, hyper-body-centered (nonsense) experience is that the modern gym, while offering a solution serene, more intelligent. A comprehensive approach designed to work with the person?s mind as much as the abs, creative mind combined exercise spa, and moderate intellectual enrichment in a civilized society.
Members
make personal or group classes such as yoga, tai chi, qi gong and stretching, and spa-themed Sanskrit, guided meditation, before and during treatment is key to mental commitment. The design evokes the world of art and imagination, and seminars on issues of welfare and a healthy sleep and stress reduction, and in literature, art, architecture, science, history and travel, are as regular as fitness programs. In mind one can sit by the fire and drink tea, meditate in the Hall of Tranquility or taking watercolor classes from a local painter. Other solutions for wiseacres: online videos allow members access to classes where the prices are a member of management is based on income and a unique spa shop offers everything from yoga to the teams selections of literature cured.
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3rd place (tie): Pennsylvania State University ($ 250USD prize)
Study Team: Ben Dillan, Lydia Hanks, Emma Leach, Marina Volpe
Faculty Advisor: Professor Anna Mattila
Associate Architect: Patrick Burke, Director, Michael Graves & Associates
greenhouse concept
The name captures the two central elements of this concept spa: green for its emphasis on sustainability broad, and the house reflects the ways in which intertwined the savannas of southern hospitality all design and programming
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