Those of you who have been keeping an eye on our plans for launching a new tailor-made healthy holiday division for our travel company will be pleased to know that we are making excellent progress and expect to open for business in April 2012.  For those of you who are reading our blog for the first time, we hope that this will be of interest to you too!

The concept is to create bespoke luxury healthy holidays for the discernbing traveller who would prefer to return from their holiday looking and feeling amazing, rather than feeling like they need another holiday to recover from the one they’ve just been on.  Admittedly, our three current healthy holiday brands – in:spa retreats, fitscape fitness holidays and destination yoga – all provide guests with this opportunity, whether they’re after a healthy detox, a serious boost to their fitness or an inspiring yoga holiday.

Our new brand, which will be called The Healthy Holiday Company (now to be a public facing brand, rather than just the holding company for fitscape, in:spa and destination yoga) will offer a selection of the best spas and wellness programmes around the world, covering destinations like the Maldives, Vietnam, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Thailand, Bali, Mexico and, of course, Europe.  In addition, it will offer mountain biking, hiking, skiing and ski safaris, surfing, river rafting, sailing, road biking, golf, horse riding and numerous other activities – whether individually or as part of a tailor-made combination – at a selection of fabulous, hand-picked locations across the globe.  Guided hiking, for example, will be offered in the Italian Dolomites, the French Alps, the Atlas Mountains, on the islands of Ibiza and Majorca, and at various beautiful spots in South Africa.

For all our holidays, guests will be able to choose from fully serviced luxury villas (or self catering), or 4 or 5 star hotels.  Our local experts in each destination will include chefs, massage therapists, nannies and baby sitters, cultural guides, chauffeurs and, of course, a full range of activity experts covering biking, hiking, scuba diving, surfing etc. etc.

This has been over 2 years in the making, although we have been building and developing our contacts and expertise ever since the launch of in:spa retreats back in 2003.  For the last two years, our team have been researching, travelling, interviewing, hiring and contracting the very best destinations and experts.  And now, it’s just a few more weeks until everything will be ready for our launch in April.  We are very excited about this and hope you are too!

So, if you are interested in individually tailored holidays for both adults and families that are both fun and healthy and you would like to be notified when our new website goes live, please register here