Hospitality and spa management systems provider Springer-Miller has named Nicole Stanaway as SpaSoft business development manager.

The award-winning author and New York Times columnist will discuss the qualities of strong leaders at IHRSA 2015

This year’s SIBEC Europe event opened with a lively discussion forum covering wearable technology and Sports Direct Fitness’ £5 membership announcement

Kath Hudson offers an overview of the groups and schemes pitching to help tackle the UK’s obesity crisis

The CEO of corporate wellness specialist High Five Health Promotion talks to Kate Cracknell about entering the UK market and about pan-European growth plans

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SpaUK – an association for British spas – has launched a new online benchmarking programme enabling members to compare their key performance indicators (KPIs) against the rest of the market.

The CEO of Fitness First talks to Kate Cracknell about putting behavioural psychology at the heart of the business, in a £270m repositioning and rebrand

US real estate developer Delos has created the first set of building standards based on wellbeing. Its founder Paul Scialla explains

Natural product manufacturer Body Bliss has introduced a new aromatherapy app which has been designed to integrate custom aromatherapy alchemy into both spa treatments and spa retail.

Arsenal Football Club has signed a partnership deal with Chinese technology giant Huawei that will see the telecommunications specialist become the official smartphone partner of the north London club.

How could the new wave of wearable technologies affect the fitness market? Industry expert Bryan O'Rourke shares his views

Cloud-based spa software company SpaBooker has secured an investment of US$27.5million (£17.9m; E21m) in series B financing in a deal led by Bain Capital Ventures.
The company will use the funding to continue to refine and develop its software, which gets five new releases a year, with a focus on the continued development of revenue-driving marketing tools.

A Spanish health resort is taking wellbeing and healthy lifestyles into the digital age, providing guests with customised iPads for the duration of their stay.

Marriott International has announced the launch of its new careers presence on the Chinese social network, Weibo, as part of efforts to hire 30,000 people by the end of 2014.

Intelligenz Solutions, the Australia-based provider of integrated software for the fitness, spa, wellness and hospitality sector, has revealed plans to enter the UK market for the first time.