Webinar Session #10
 
Top 10 Spa Trends 2010 and their Likely Impact on Medical Tourism
Date: January 21st, 2010
Time: 11:00AM EST/10:00AM CST/8:00AM PST

SpaFinder president, Susie Ellis, will present the company's seventh-annual 'Top 10 Spa Trends To Watch' for 2010 - a forecast much anticipated by global spa and wellness executives and the international media.  For our audience she will also address how these trends are likely to impact medical tourism.  She leads the world's most prominent spa media, marketing, and research company - connecting the largest global network of spas to millions of spa consumers worldwide through SpaFinder.com and its media properties. Ms. Ellis has been recognized as a prescient spotter (and analyzer) of emerging industry trends, and her annual report is regularly covered by press including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report, USA Today and major newspapers worldwide.
 
Credited with having forecast numerous industry 'mega-trends' -  from the wider shift from 'pampering' to wellness - to the continued interweaving of medicine and spas - to the impact of spa on design and cuisine - she will spotlight just-emerging new concepts impacting spa, wellness, fitness, and the ever-evolving consumer, that should shape the industry next year - and beyond. 
 
Author of the popular Ask Susie column in various SpaFinder publications, "Susie's Blog" on Spafinder.com, the SpaFinder Insider industry e-newsletter, and a contributor to a variety of spa lifestyle related publications, Ms. Ellis is recognized worldwide as a leading authority on the spa industry, the evolving spa consumer, and spa-related health, wellness, beauty, fitness and lifestyle trends. She also leads the company's charitable and community-facing ventures, including SpaFinder's initiative to raise awareness of, and help prevent, melanoma skin cancer.
 
Ms. Ellis began her career in spa at the Golden Door (California), where she helped build one of the world's most influential spa programs, 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.
 
Ms. Ellis is a frequent speaker at industry events around the world, and her spa industry insight has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Time magazine, The Daily Telegraph, Newsweek and in other well known media. She is a current board member of the Global Spa Summit and holds a MBA from UCLA.

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