The protocol and how long it runs, the modalities offered as against listed, and whether the programme is medical, diagnostic or simply restorative.
A model room in Costalegre, 71 villas in Coorg and 15 suites above Lake Wakatipu suggest wellness has stopped being an amenity and become the organising principle. Some of these projects mean it. Some are renting the language for a season.
Arcora in Finnish Lapland, a nine-suite lodge coming to the Uluru dunes, Segera in Laikipia and a carbon-positive merino station in Central Otago all point the same way: the landscape is doing the work the spa used to do.
At Villa Eden in Merano, the most valuable thing on the treatment plan is the body-composition printout that precedes it. Six Senses Amaala has just opened a Longevity Centre and a Biohacking Recovery Lounge. Where does that leave the massage table?
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