A stress-free visit to Scotland’s Si! Spa The Gailes Hotel & Spa in Ayrshire fought off strong competition to be crowned the winner of Scotlandās Best Spa and Leisure Hotel at the 2022 Prestige Hotel Awards. Having recently undergone a Ā£2 million extension and refurbishment, visitors can now enjoy use of the thermal suite with […]
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Therme Manchester, the UKās first city-based wellbeing resort, is on course to begin work later this year with construction scheduled to take around 24 months. It is the first in a nationwide rollout of the Therme concept, set to include Glasgow, London and Wales. Expected to attract up to 20,000 visitors a day, Therme Groupās […]
Judith Wojtowicz takes a closer look at Serco Leisure, four-times winner of Water Leisure Operator of the year… Despite phenomenal growth in the last two years, the āexciting stuff is yet to comeā, according to Helen Bull, national commercial aquatics manager of reigning Swimming Pool Operators Of the Year, Serco Leisure. With swim lessons up […]
A recent ISPE presentation by Karl Rowntree from Rotaspa covered the topical issue of energy saving in hot tubs. The Institute is planning to present more topics of interest to those in the spa/ hot tub side of the trade and would be interested to hear what subjects you would like to see presented. Subjects […]
The next ISPE Filtration Workshop on Tuesday November 14th at Plastipackās premises in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, is by kind permission of Peter Adlington, FISPE. This workshop, presented by Chris Carr, FISPE and Philip Barlow, FISPE, with assistance form Kim Mumford, MISPE, is ideal for new fitters or those who would like a bit of […]
Swim England recently joined forces with the Swimming Teachersā Association (STA) to tackle the urgent issue of more than 660,000 children could be missing out on swimming lessons. The national governing body says there are 12,000 vacant roles across the aquatics sector, with more than 3,700 amongst national and regional operators. Based on the shortage, […]
Chris Carr FISPE urges swimming pool engineers to be single main drain alert… Way before the 1990ās, swimming pools in the UK were fitted with a single main drain and we thought nothing of it. However, over time, it became apparent that there is a serious risk of entrapment on a single main drain. Just […]
A global business development expert, Steve Hasenmueller urges us to Embrace the Effort… Everyone in sales wants to sell more and selling āmoreā normally comes down to our Efforts and our Effectiveness. Iāve always asserted that when you zoom way out ā a salespersonās job basically boils down to two things: #1 ā Building Value […]
New to the market, in time for the 2023 peak season, the Inver X Warrior is a cordless robotic cleaner, from Ocea UK, only available through an approved network of trade re-sellers, so sales will be protected from Internet price-cutting wars. Now available from stock, the Inver X Warrior outperforms in all environments in both […]
The Institute has confirmed the latest names in the frame following this yearās exam success. Certificates will be presented at the 2023 ISPE Awards, as part of the 129th ISPE One-Day Seminar, to be held in Cobham, Surrey on Thursday October 12th. Various awards may be presented to those who submitted outstanding exam papers, including, […]
