Everyone likes to be pampered when we travel right? How about taking a vacation and getting a complete health makeover? This seems to be the new trend, enter the healthtel or wellness hotel.
Of course we went over the basics in our “what is a wellness hotel” post, but they’re much more than that. The more research I’ve done on these new trendy destinations, the more I’m amazed at what they offer. It seems that most of the health hotels in the U.S. seem to offer more services geared toward over all health-care then their European counterparts. With that said however, Europe is where the wellness hotel originated from. So that’s not to say the wellness hotels across the pond are as luxurious or dedicated to health and wellness.
It just seems, as most other industries, the U.S. has commercialized something more. That is evident from the fact that originally the wellness hotel was based around large medical complexes, but more recently we’re seeing the healthtel become an entire complex in itself. Additionally, we’re seeing more and more destinations based solely on weight loss such as the weight loss boot camp.
