This document describes the website Finest-Spa.com, which is dedicated to luxury spa hotels around the world. It provides information on the founder's background and passion for luxury hotels and spas. Finest-Spa.com acts as an online guide for over 500 recommended spa hotels globally. It also serves as a communication tool for these hotels, helping to promote and increase their online visibility through hotel overviews, member comments, advertising placements, and consulting services.

1. Experience the World of Luxury Hotels Spas
Experience the World of Luxury Hotels Spas
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Biography Elisa IANNI ALICE
Even as a young girl, the founder of www.finest-spa.com perused travel magazines
in search of 5-star hotels. This attraction to luxury hotels still drives Elisa---a
cosmopolitan and perfectly trilingual Franco-Italian. In fact, she still collects magazines
that specialize on the subject, constantly stuffing her library with guides and books
on these jewels of the hospitality industry, nestled far and wide around the world
and, whenever she can, spa-hops through distant countries to spend a few nights
“someplace else”.
Yet it has been in communications, more particularly in mass media, that Elisa Ianni
Alice focused most of her professional life, having spent some 10 years in the field
(at CNN in London, at Elle International in Paris---in the media department at Cartier-
--and, for the past 8 years, at Aegis Media as a media account manager). With this
solid experience behind her, and having recently added “mother” to her list of titles,
she decided to change the course of her life and to use her talents in international
communications and media combined with the power of the Internet and devote
herself to her passion for luxury spas.
After conducting thorough market research, she observed some substantial
demand in the area of travel built around the pursuit of well-being. Nothing on the
web addressed this area, so why not start something? The idea of creating the first
website dedicated to upscale wellness destinations that combine the concepts of
spa, hotel and escape became a no-brainer. Confident of her project, she built a
database, created its visual identity and listed the most beautiful Spa Hotels in the
world.
In 2008, finest-spa.com went online. Today, with over 500 recommended hotels, the
business woman continues her quest to discover magical places, with a fervent desire
to share them with the rest of us. Her criteria focuses on the welcome experience,
overall services offered, décor/ambiance, environment, the quality of the spa and
treatments available, and obviously on her personal expert impressions.
Indeed, Elisa Ianni Alice also offers her informed advice to hotels wishing to improve
their services and «media» solutions to attract new customers. Her professional
experience selling advertising space, in combination with her personal attraction to
fine things makes her a true Spa Consultant.

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The FinestSPA Spirit
Sharing spa experiences from around the world, guiding visitors in their choice of
wellness destinations, informing them on the latest news in the world of spa hotels,
while at the same time helping these luxury hotels promote themselves: that is the
philosophy of Finest-Spa.com.
A true “Michelin Guide” to spa hotels around the world, Finest-Spa.com is also the
leading online resource dedicated to spas and well-being. For the countries listed,
this fully bilingual site (French/English) with its sophisticated search engine makes it
possible to find the finest spa vacations worldwide, it is a premium directory that has
more than 500 unique, carefully selected facilities.
With its various sections including Spa Search, Spa News, Spa Beauty, Spa Food,
Home Spa and Spa Blog, the site keeps you informed of all the news from the world
of spa hotels, such as recent openings. It also offers beauty tips, recipes that support
well-being, practical tips to recreate a “spa moment” at home and more. All with a
fun and lively system for navigating the site. Videos complement and enliven the
descriptions of some of these deluxe facilities. There’s also the Blog that reprises all
the info on the site with a Travelogues section and the I’ve Tested It section, to get
even closer to the site’s visitors and share with them the experience of a destination,
or the way a certain treatment really feels.
Moreover, the Club Finest SPA, intended for the site’s most dedicated customers,
offers a monthly newsletter informing members of the latest news in the world of spa
hotels, and information on upcoming hotel openings, current and future. In addition
to the ratings done according to several criteria by the Finest-Spa.com teams, club
members can also comment on the most beautiful spa hotels they’ve visited during
the year and help determine which facilities get on the Gold List shown on the site’s
home page. Members’ useful comments can be left on the overview page of each of
the hotels listed offering visitors’ first-hand impressions and experiences for others
to benefit from.
Community-oriented, Finest-Spa.com is also intended to be interactive through the
development of a personal list of spa hotels to track in «my favorites» and tools like
Facebook and Twitter. With this wealth of valuable information at your fingertips, it
would be hard not to find your perfect spa experience, the escape that suits you best.

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A Formidable Communication Tool
for Spa Hotels
Online Promotion
With a collection of nearly 500 spa hotels in 70 countries, Finest-Spa.com is the
leading online guide dedicated to the promotion of high end well-being facilities in the
world. The website’s commitment is to help visitors experience an unforgettable stay
at one of the sites in the collection of upscale resorts, as well as to promote the most
beautiful spa hotels in the world.
Indeed, besides being the most complete information destination of its kind, Finest-
Spa.com is an invaluable partner for spa hotels. One of the objectives of the site is to
help the places selected by our teams to increase their visibility through various tools
(overview of each hotel, a booking system, advertising space, etc.). These are some
of the highlights that are made possible by working together.
Overview
Once a hotel has been selected in accordance with our standards, a detailed overview
is compiled specifically for that facility. This record contains all the practical information
specific to that site, as well as a description of the hotel, the spa and treatments
available. So visitors to the website get very detailed information, enhanced with
photos or even videos. Within just seconds, it’s as if prospective clients have actually
traveled there. A very valuable glimpse into the real thing...
In addition, comments left by members who have already visited the place also
provide valuable information for our readers. Only comments relevant to prospective
customers of the establishment and constructive for the hotel are allowed by the
Finest-Spa.com team. This promotional tool is offered based on individualized quotes.
A Boost to Reservations
On each overview is a direct link to the reservations system for the spa hotel in
question. Once a prospective client is on the page of a given facility, he or she is
redirected to its reservations system. In this way, we enhance your visibility on the
Internet with an additional channel to a “captive” and knowledgeable audience.

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A Formidable Communication Tool
for Spa Hotels
Ad Placements
Advertise on Finest-Spa.com – it’s sure to increase visibility for your spa hotel in any
given period.
Take advantage of a perfect time to put your spa hotel on our homepage, to develop
your audience on a captive, knowledgeable and loyal target.
Set yourself apart among the 500 spa hotels listed on Finest-Spa.com, and take
advantage of the offers on our home page and our search engine while advertising
in a targeted way.
• Grab the opportunity to highlight your Spa Hotel for one month on the homepage
of the site with two high visibility ads.
• Add your Spa Hotel to the best online guide to Spa Hotels of the World, and
get the word out on your latest news, and about your Spa. A page dedicated to
your Spa Hotel, for a unique form of expression.
• Increase opportunities to display your Hotel in our search engine with a
systematic presence on the Search Engine Home Page or by investing in
geographic targeting.
All these offers are subject to prior price quotes and promotions.
An Indispensable Reference
Finest-Spa.com, is already positioned as the «Michelin Guide» of spa hotels around
the world. As a result, we can help our readers find their perfect spa experience by
delivering current and up-to-date information on a site with a sense of community.
Various locations are tested by our teams, and club members can even leave
comments on the site, and express their impressions of specific treatments. All tools
that promote the reputation of a hotel. By letting its association with the Finest-Spa.
com network be known, a spa hotel becomes a reference in and of itself.
© Shangri-La Villingili Resort & Spa, Maldives

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A Formidable Communication Tool
for Spa Hotels
Consulting
In addition to «media» solutions adapted for each hotel and aimed at winning
new customers, the founder of the site, Elisa Ianni Alice offers her advice as a spa
Consultant. As a result, spa hotels wishing to improve their services, their general
decor, hospitality, the quality of their care, can benefit from her expertise. The promise
of an unforgettable spa experience for your customers...
Coming Up
FinestSPA will attend the ILTM (International Luxury Travel Market) show in Cannes for
the second time in December 2009.
This will make for sustained and regular promotion of the site, which can only generate
positive impact for each hotel listed on Finest-Spa.com.
© Kempinski Hotel Barbaros Bay, Turkey

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Logo - Finest-spa.com
Press Kit - English version
Press Kit - French version
Picture of Elisa IANNI ALICE
E-card
http://www.finest-spa.com/media/
FinestSPA Contact
Elisa IANNI ALICE
CEO & Spa Consultant
78, rue Dragon - 13006 Marseille - France
Tel : + 33 6 60 38 25 94
Fax : + 33 4 91 336 199
elisa@finest-spa.com
www.finest-spa.com
Skype : finestspa
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