Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Resort builds Japanese spa, to offer ‘unique’ services
SEEING the need to cope with the demand for spa services, a hotel firm is putting up a half-hectare traditional Japanese-inspired village to cater to more clients.
Plantation Bay Resort and Spa will invest on a 6,500-square-meter lot within their area in order to open a new and “unique” spa in the next two to three months.
“We have a limited spa and limited services to offer. (So) we want to add more,” Efren Belarmino, Plantation Bay general manager, told Sun.Sar Cebu.
Apart from putting up additional facilities, Dianne Gandionco, the resort’s public relations associate, said they will also train masseuses to give “hilot” or the traditional Filipino massage and massage for pregnant women.
Gandionco added that they’re also giving trainings on Thai massage, as well as the signature sensual massage.
Greater
The hotel management decided to invest on a spa rather than a gym or a sports center because of a “great business demand.”
“Most clients no longer prefer sports facilities,” Gandionco said.
Moreover, since Plantation Bay is the first resort spa, the company should at least focus on enhancing what the company is best known for.
September
Plantation Bay, which is a five-star resort in the country that is locally owned, is finishing the Tokogawa-patterned spa, as the company aims to officially open it to the public this September.
Tokogawa is a Japanese village built in 1783.
The company’s spa services will be patterned from the concept to create a more relaxing and peaceful environment for the customers to unwind in a traditional Japanese atmosphere, as well as to make spa services different.
Pattern
The development of the Tokogawa-patterned spa resulted from an extensive research, as Maria Lourdes Joy Martinez Onozawa, the project architect, traveled to Japan and studied each spa in the place.
“The client loves the (Tokogawa) concept, (because) its environment-friendly, (with) carefully chosen recycled resources, it will easily calm you down,” Onozawa said. (TEP)
