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4hoteliers.com | Larry Mogelonsky
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Applying Next-Gen ‘Wave Tech’ to Hotel Sleep, Spa and WellnessBy Adam and Larry MogelonskyWednesday, 16th April 2025
Using a multisensorial blend of light waves, electricity, radio waves, soundwaves or vibrations to heal the body, these technologies represent a high-margin, low-labor path to grow wellness revenues for a spa or as an in-room amenity.
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hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
There are two problems I have with the term ‘plant-based’. For one, the evidence I read from longevity research, biohacking resources and centenarian studies continues to reaffirm the anthropological and evolutionary evidence that humans are ‘opportunistic omnivores’ wherein over the long-term we need a balance of high-quality foods from both kingdoms – plants and animals.
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2 weeks ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
The hotel industry has seen an explosion of new brands and sub-brands over the past two decades, and this trend shows no signs of abating. This diversification is driven by various forces, with a prominent rationale being that emergent brands can better appeal to niche interests, microsegments or specific customer identities.
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3 weeks ago | 
costar.com | Larry Mogelonsky
Bleisure has been a buzz word since well before the pandemic, but since that event catalyzed the adoption and acceptance of remote and hybrid work, the notion of blending traditionally disparate travel segments has taken on a whole new, and lucrative, meaning. Entering 2025, though, the concept of combining business and leisure — hence the portmanteau bleisure — no longer really encompasses all the different travel behaviors and sources of revenue that hotels can activate.
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3 weeks ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
As we see time again, the story of a hotel is the story of the people working at the hotel. This is especially true for the luxury hospitality segment where service excellence, exclusive amenities and personalization are hallmarks of an experience worthy of the term ‘luxury’.
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3 weeks ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
The best way to come to grips with artificial intelligence (AI) for spa and wellness is through the phrase ‘technology-adjacent therapies’. That is, for our industry where human-to-human contact is ever-so-centric to guest satisfaction, it’s not that automation will supplant practitioners but that these contemporary tools will offset the undesirable, repetitive tasks to augment the experience.
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4 weeks ago | 
4hoteliers.com | Larry Mogelonsky
As starkly hinted by the stock image I selected for this diatribe, though, it should be obvious that the other problem with ‘plant-based’ is that its reductive phrasing conceals the third food kingdom – fungi – from this ongoing nutritional debate.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
If there’s one phrase to remember for how AI and spa will intersect, it’s ‘technology-adjacent therapies’. That is, for our industry where human-to-human contact is ever-so-centric to guest satisfaction, it’s not that automation will supplant practitioners but that these contemporary tools will offset the undesirable, repetitive tasks to augment the experience.
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1 month ago | 
4hoteliers.com | Larry Mogelonsky
While much has been rightfully said about use cases like machine learning (ML) impacting personalized guest offers or microsegmentation and generative AI (genAI) helping with contextual marketing or summarization for staff, for this focused article let’s shift gears from the rooms division into the spa and wellness facilities. While this may not apply for every hotel brand, it’s worth mentioning that ‘health and wellness’ has a huge CAGR across a variety of product categories.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
If you would have asked us a year ago whether or not a robotic massage would work at a hotel wellness center, our answer would have been, “Only rarely.” Our judgment didn’t completely rule out these automated treatment tables from the welltech conversation, but we firmly believed that a great massage is achieved from both the physical pressure on muscles in combination with the psychological restoration that comes from the patient-therapist relationship. Now, however, our minds are changed.
