Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
12 October 2006
Is your hotel spa practicing medicine without a license?
Mixing a spa with a hotel is not new. Spas are one of the fastest growing hotel amenities, and according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers study, approximately 40 percent of luxury and upper-upscale lodging projects under development in the US have spa facilities and services, compared to 27 percent of existing luxury and upper-upscale hotels that have spa facilities and services. But spa proliferation and consumer demands pose new legal problems for the owners and operators of spas and affiliated hotels or other properties.