The UK swimming pool and spa sector celebrated one of its best years in a decade at its annual UK Pool & Spa Awards with the industry reporting an eight per cent increase in business.
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Hot tubs now regularly feature on the wish list of holiday makers looking to book a range of holiday accommodation from cabins, lodges and chalets to some of the more luxurious āglampingā packages at holiday sites throughout the UK and Eire.
Leading spa suppliers and water treatment specialists are expressing concern over increased sales of Tri-Chlor tablets, mostly via the Internet, to unwitting hot tub owners who are unaware of the potentially detrimental effect on their hot tubs, especially to heating components.
Following a record-breaking number of entries, voting is neck and neck in the UK Pool & Spa Awards.
UK swimming personality Stephen Parry will be presenting the UK Pool & Spa Awards 2014 at the Crowne Plaza, Birmingham, NEC, on Thursday February 20,. An Olympic bronze medallist and a BBC sports commentator, Stephen is no stranger to the pool and spa sector and runs his own mobile pool business, Total Swimming.
Aquatic fitness offers new business avenues for the pool and spa sector as Christina Connor reportsā¦
They promoted it as the event you cannot afford to miss. Lyon Piscine and Aqualie 2012, two benchmark exhibitions for swimming pool and spa professionals certainly lived up to that billing. Simply put, the Lyon exhibition event is the biggest and most important global show for the combined pool and spa sectors. It brings together 600 exhibitors, 1,000 brands from 90 countries and in the region of 18,000 visitors to Lyon. Traditionally, the first opportunity to see new developments in Europe, the combined Piscine and Aqualie 2012 events are also an exceptional opportunity to explore the latest key trends in the pool and spa markets.
Back garden hot tubs have been named for the first time among the top 10 causes of āgarden rageā in an annual survey BBCās Gardenersā World magazine.
A leading hot tub equipment supplier has warned of the dangers of selling spa components directly to the general public, fearing the consequences including inevitable fatalities. Ray Desmond, the co-founder of Spa Euro, one of Europeās leading trade suppliers, says the spa and hot tub industry is sitting on a ticking time bomb because of the lack of regulation.
Hot tub retailers, Wittering West, are celebrating 25 years in business by investing for the next 25 years with a major overhaul and expansion of their showroom in Kettering, Northamptonshire, reports Christina Connor.
Spa spares and repairs offer a wealth of potential to the water leisure sector, as Christina Connor reports…
