Agent Selling Tips: Spa & Wellness Holidays
06-Nov-2025
The Asia Pacific region is home to some of the world’s most transformative spa and wellness escapes – destinations where ancient healing philosophies and cutting-edge wellness science come together in the most inspiring settings. When crafting a wellness journey for your clients the key things is understanding their deeper intentions; are they seeking complete rejuvenation, a lifestyle reset, a spiritual breakthrough? The options are varied and vast.
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PATA Executive Committee Member, Alison Haining, gives us an insight into the best spa & wellness experiences in the Pacific Asia region:
The Asia Pacific region is home to some of the world’s most transformative spa and wellness escapes – destinations where ancient healing philosophies and cutting-edge wellness science come together in the most inspiring settings. When crafting a wellness journey for your clients the key things is understanding their deeper intentions; are they seeking complete rejuvenation, a lifestyle reset, a spiritual breakthrough? The options are varied and vast.
While traditional spa therapies and relaxation rituals can offer a welcome recharge, many wellness sanctuaries go far beyond this offering immersive, expertly curated programmes that can completely recalibrate the mind, body and spirit, and have been meticulously designed to target everything from nutrition to holistic health, pain management and even fertility. It is important to get as much detail from your client as possible in terms of their goals to assist in researching the best retreat and programme for them. Additionally, most properties will conduct a full assessment on arrival to ensure the programme is personalised for optimum results.
Increasingly we are seeing technology being incorporated into wellness travel with resorts balancing traditional practices with biomarker screening and health diagnostics to get a more accurate and deeper understanding of the clients’ needs and enable more targeted treatment. In turn this leads to expectations of how the ‘wellness holiday’ will develop going forward where this ultra-personalisation will provide the opportunity for wellness travellers to continue benefiting from their stays when they have returned home. Marking a shift from spa and relaxation, to health and life longevity, possibly driven from a rising interest in the sector from health-conscious millennials and people recovering from stress and burnout. What makes Asia an exciting destination in this space is that many of the resorts here have confidentially leaned into this shift in demand while still retaining and celebrating traditional healing practices creating the perfect fusion.
