GLOBAL SPA PANEL

Global Spa Industry Trends- Panel

Panelist include:
Andrew Gibson
Andrew Jacka
Liz Terry

Facilitated by: Susie Ellis

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Click here to download Susie Ellis' presentation

Andrew Gibson is the Group Director of Spa for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, providing global support to the design, development and operation of Mandarin Oriental Spas.

He is a well known and respected spa professional with twenty-five years of luxury and diversified hotel and leisure services experience.

Andrew has covered almost every part of the spa service industry. He has worked for a construction company specializing in building health facilities. He has raised money, conceptualized and built his own luxury resort spa. He has helped to establish Six Senses as a major spa trend and worked with Raison d'Etre to help leading hotels define their spa concept.

He holds a B.A. in Recreation Management and Environmental Conservation and sits on the board of Global Spa Summit and International SPA Association.

Andrew Jacka has been involved in the Hospitality industry for over 30 years and the spa sector for 13 years.  A regular speaker on the international circuit, in recent years he has made presentations in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, to both consumer audiences and to spa industry colleagues.

His company, Spa Origins (formerly Horwath Spa Consulting), based in Bangkok, was awarded ‘Asia's Leading Spa Consultancy 2007' by the World Travel Awards committee.  His active role in the Thai Spa Association and the Asia Pacific Spa & Wellness Coalition are testament to his passion for the industry and desire to continue to raise the ‘bar'.

Liz Terry is Managing Director and editor at The Leisure Media Company, an international business to business magazine and web publisher which specializes in the leisure and wellness markets.

Leisure Media, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2010, publishes Spa Business and Spa Opportunities magazines and the Spa Business Handbook.

All three are complemented by their own daily websites, weekly ezines, digital turning pages editions, PDF editions, online archives, buyer search engines and news alert services.

Leisure Media's other titles include Health Club Management, Sports Management, Leisure Opportunities, Attractions Management and Leisure Management. Full details can be found on the website - http://www.leisuremedia.com/ 

Liz was awarded the MBE for services to publishing in 2006.

Susie Ellis, As president of SpaFinder, Inc., Susie Ellis heads up the world's most prominent spa media and marketing company. One of the most respected analysts and commentators on the global spa and wellness industries, she's recognized worldwide as an authority on the evolving spa consumer and spa-related health, wellness, beauty, fitness and lifestyle trends - and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Ms. Ellis also serves on NewBeauty magazine's editorial advisory board and is a contributing editor for NewBeauty SpaFinder: The Guide to Global Spa, Wellness & Beauty, as well as the SpaFinder Supplement which appears in each issue of NewBeauty magazine.

Ms. Ellis began her career in spa at California's Golden Door, and later became the first spa director of the Greenhouse Spa at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. She has also served on the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, chaired by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

She is featured regularly in prominent media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Time magazine, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek. She is a board member of the Global Spa Summit and holds a MBA from UCLA.