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In Malaysian Eleventh Plan 2016-2020, tourism is one of the service sectors given priority by the government. It is claimed that the increase in tourist arrivals help to support the deficit reduction in service sector by contributing to the growth of the nation. Furthermore, the quick growth of tourism in Southeast Asia, as a result of amongst others attractive sandy beaches and nature, beach resorts have been on the receiving end of attention and focus by the tourists. However, prior studies claimed that these resorts were not properly managed and further actions need to be taken to ensure its sustainability. Thus, this case study aims to examine performance management of a beach resort in ensuring its sustainability. Specifically, this study explores the cost saving strategies adopted by this resort through its 25 years of operation. This resort is located on an island in Terengganu. The resort owner and employees were interviewed. The interview results appear to indicate that various strategies were implemented by the resort to manage their performance and ensure its sustainability in the business. Family members hold important positions in the resort to ensure the smooth running of the operation. Cost saving activities and smart business arrangements were made with suppliers to reduce its outflows.  

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Wellness tourism has recently been a fast-growing form of tourism, with continuously developing aspects that can produce massive profits. In Greece, health and wellness have been interconnected since the ancient times. The current objective is how to connect wellness to tourism. Wellness resorts are an aspect of wellness tourism which has only recently appeared in Greece. This type of hotels can be successful and competitive toward the resorts that operate abroad only if they focus on combining qualitative and innovative services with the local features of the area in which they operate. This paper aims to fill in the research gap that exists about wellness resorts in Greece, as well as about the specific characteristics of the visitors and the prospects of growth that wellness tourism has in Greece. Initially, it presents statistics related to health and wellness tourism, as well as to wellness resorts in Greece and worldwide. Secondly, it includes the primary research that has been conducted at two levels: The first level of research, which was conducted on the general public, resulted to conclusions on the public’s viewpoints about wellness resorts. The second level of research was conducted on wellness resorts in Greece, in order to define the specific characteristics of their visitors. The study offers conclusions as well as potential policies for the state and the entrepreneurs that can be implemented for the publicity and the promotion of this profitable form of tourism.

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Bardessono Eco Resort: Case Study

Bardessono Eco Resort is a 62-room boutique luxury inn and spa nestled on a 4.9-acre site in Yountville, California in the heart of Napa Valley. It is one of the LEED Platinum-certified buildings in the U.S. The hotel features 940 solar panels that provide approximately one-half of the total electrical energy requirement of the property.

LOCATION: Yountville, Napa Valley in California Site area: 4.9-acre Builtup area: 1.5-acre Architect: WATG

Civil Engineer:  Bartelt Engineering MEP Engineer:  Ecotope Structural Engineer:  I.L. Landscape:  George W. Girvin Associates Inc. GrossConsultants:  O’Brien & Company ,   Powell Padham Martin-Vegue

Connectivity : San Francisco International Airport (SFO) 1.5hrs/67 miles Oakland International Airport (OAK) 1.5hr/60 miles Sacramento International Airport (SMF) 1.5 hr/73miles

Site Surrounding Info: Climate: Napa Valley has a dry Mediterranean climate Temperature: 3 to 33C Rainfall: 27.3 in (less Rainfall)

Lucy Restaurant & Bar, located at the LEED Platinum-certified Bardessono hotel in the heart of Yountville, is an approachable fine-dining restaurant known for its modern aesthetic and garden-inspired “field-to-fork” fare.

Bardesoono Eco Resort Site Plan

Bardesoono site has three entries one main and the rests two are for the Lucy Restaurant & Bar and the spa block.

All the hotel blocks have there unique landscaping in their courtyards. This gives the guests a different view and feels in all the blocks.

Bardesoono Eco Resort Floor Plans

On the ground floor, the main block is the restaurant block, in this, the toilets are placed in the center, and behind them are the kitchen and the service rooms. Along with the site, the boundary is the electrical service area for the transformer.

On this we can see that every main room has an open area attached to it like a ballroom has an event patio, the lounge has a lounge patio, Main dining has a patio for open dining seating. Event the private dining has a private patio.

They have given a feel of nature in every corner of the resort.

On the first floor, only the yellow parts are the rest of the rooms all the area is the roof which is covered with solar panels.

The rooftop of the SPA is a rooftop deck with dining. This rooftop deck gives a view of Napa Valley. Besides the SPA’s this rooftop swimming pool is another activity that a guest can enjoy in Bardesoono.

The scale of the building is not raised so that views of the mountains are not blocked.

Bardesoono Eco Resort Accomodation Plans

Bardesoono provides 3 types of rooms and in a villa which is further divided into 3 types. The specialty of these rooms is that they all have a private courtyard to enjoy the view and feel nature.

Let’s talk about the rooms,

SPA Suite: It is divided into two types King and King Queen. The only difference is the additional queen bed in the king queen suite. They have a gas fireplace, massage table luxurious bathroom with a private courtyard.

Steam SPA Suite: In addition to SPA Suite it has an outdoor shower attached to the private courtyard. This provides an extra attachment to nature and gives a chance to enjoy the summers outside the rooms in nature.

Tufa Suite: This suite is larger than the rest two rooms with a luxurious living area and a larger private courtyard. There are 6 Tufa rooms throughout the whole resort.

The Villas are made such that they can be used by a single-family or can be given to three different families at the same time. They are divided into Flinth Suite, Quartole Suite, Jaspe Suite.

All three have their private courtyard and the SPA. They also have private parking. The rooms are luxurious and have living, dining, and a fireplace too.

The rooms have large windows to get the most of the natural light and proper shading is prevent it from heating during the summers.

Bardessono Eco Resort: Building Material

• It is one of the few LEED Platinum-certified resorts in the United States.
• Wood and recycled steel were used to build it.
• Salvaged wood on the siding of the exterior walls and other areas inside the property.
• Recycled steel was also used on the building’s façade in the form of rusted steel panels.
• Existing limestone from a former wine cellar was reused to create large sections of the building’s exterior.
• To encourage guests to enjoy the region’s temperate climate, the ground-level guestrooms have private courtyards that feature outdoor showers and tubs.
• All guestrooms include large dual-pane glass windows which are designed to take advantage of natural light while controlling glare and yielding warmth during the colder seasons.

Bardessono Eco Resort: Sustainable Elements

• Many of the property’s landscaped features are made from rammed earth to celebrate the local soils.
• 100-year-old olive trees and other drought-resistant landscaping
• Eighty-two 300-foot-deep geothermal wells to heat and cool guestrooms and provide hot water,
• Automatically-controlled Venetian blinds to let in the sun early in the day and out later in the day
• Motion-detected electricity in guestrooms
• Dual-flush toilets and reuse and treatment of gray and black water for irrigation through Yountville’s water system.
• 940 solar panels t hat provide approximately one-half of the total electrical energy requirement of the property.
• Bardessono offers carbon fiber bicycles and on-site producing gardens . The eco-boutique hotel’s restaurant emphasizes local, farm-fresh ingredients.

Bardessono Eco Resort: Features

• To ensure the Bardessono Eco Resort upscale vision would fit within the context of Yountville’s charming small-town feel.
• The design approach focused on reducing the project scale with no buildings exceeding two levels.
• Buildings were designed with flat roofs to minimize blocking views of the surrounding hills and thoughtfully connected by courtyards, each with their own unique design concept.
• As guests travel throughout the property, they can encounter various landscape features and sculptures encouraging them to connect with their natural environment and retreat into a space that does the same.
• Bardessono’s rooftop pool offers loungers and diners spectacular views of Napa.

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Capella Ubud, Bali: World’s most Exotic Resort

Nested in the dense jungles of Ubud, Bali ; Capella is Architect Bill Bensley’s perfect tropical playground. Words cannot do justice to how surreal and phantasmagoric the Capella experience is. With multiple canvas tents and occasional artefacts; Bensley manages to blur the lines between surrealism , maximalism and the very organic reality. He masters the art of storytelling through architecture and interior design .

The Capella resort spans over nine acres of paddy fields and the Ubud rainforest. Planned to celebrate the tropical habitability with the Balinese flora and fauna, it focuses on sustaining 100% of the natural plantations and revolving the entire design organically across the jungle.

The Design Curation And Philosophy | Capella Ubud

The resort was to be designed for the famous industrialist Suwito Gunawan; whose idea was to build a hotel with 120 rooms. But then, Bill Bensley was brought into the picture with his statement, “ If we design a hotel for everyone, it will appeal to no one” with which the Flamboyant and extravagant Capella was built. 

Bill Bensley revived the story of the ship-wrecked Dutch immigrants in the forest from the 1800s with his boyhood recollection of a jungle camp. Unlike many hospitality projects, The Capella in Ubud focuses on highlighting the purpose and importance of the living experience rather than making a profit-making plan. This is the reason why it was adopted as a small but flavorful settlement with only 22 luxury tents; crafted to perfection.

Bensley and his team consciously kept “minimal intervention” in their minds to create the hotel while honouring the Balinese philosophy of “Tri Hita Karana” which translates to the 3 causes of well-being; pointing towards creating harmony with God, Nature and people.

When we talk about the design curation, we observe how; leaving the biome undisturbed must have posed a problem for the design team. To establish the planning and blocking of different tents in the retreat, the team created mockups using bamboo. This helped them in nesting the resort in the jungle’s lap without disturbing the ecology while providing the best possible views from every tent.

The Planning

Capella is like a fantastical narrative. We reach the property through a busy market on the outskirts of the rice paddies. We arrive at the main station after walking through the immensity of the tiered terrain. The walls of the ornate entryway are decorated with deer head sculptures festooned with sepia and bead garlands. The narrative of a jungle festival begins here when we encounter segregated public places such as the officer’s club lounge, the armoury, which is the gym, Api Jeeva, which is the restaurant , or the Cistern, which is the common pool. Many spaces across the resort are built as interactive zones.

 For instance, the campfire, the open-air cinema which showcases silent black and white movies, the poolside bar etc. We notice that the site planning is such that every tent, be it public or private, is provided with a magnificent view of the paddy fields, the forest or the Wos river.

Furthermore, every tent has an organically designed entrance and is themed to different stories. For instance, the carpenter’s tent, architect’s tent, voyager’s tent, horn collector’s tent, princess tent, java tent, cartographers tent etc. It is like every living unit has a personality of its own just like different settlers who camp in a jungle to share stories of their individual lives. 

The Mads Lange restaurant is another example of such design profiling which is named after a Danish explorer who was famously known as the white rajah of Bali. Blending into the terraced landscape , these canvas tents are highly functional, luxury rooms, which provide the guests with a splendid view of the Wos River, or a personal show of the Balinese dancing birds or even the magical tranquility of the Ubud rainforest.

The Maximalist Interiors

Working per his extravagant style, Bill Bensley leaves no stone unturned when it comes to embellishing every corner of every tent. He works with multitudes of materials to create a luxury experience with every element adding detail to his Capella story. Handcrafted ceramics, copper monkeys jumping and sitting on the roofs or by the salt pools, stone and glassworks, wooden detailing etc. create a sensory safari for the guests to enjoy.

Bensley also explores tactile materials, which pays homage to Balinese culture and history. Some subtle instances include the black and white checked fabric known as Saput Poleng, Batik and ikat design fabrics for wall ornamentation, retro-style red enamel tins, intricately carved mirrors, roll-up tent windows, indigenous puppets, multiple hand-painted artworks and extremely well-crafted wooden post beds, hand-beaten copper bathtubs, toilet seats designed as thrones, and so on.

The contrasting but very interesting colour scheme of the resort is indeed remarkable. Exteriors are focused on earthy neutral colours with greyish black canvas tents settling in the jungle. Whereas the interiors have blasting colours like blazing reds, yellows, greens and blues in upholstery as well as wall and roof suspensions.

Sustainable Features | Capella Ubud

The Capella resort, with all its luxuries and splendours, works equally hard on making it a sustainable settlement. They incur produce from local farms, have their sewage treatment plants and even have self-sustaining waste management systems. The resort is extremely focused on ecological conservation and has tents with wooden decks focused on minimizing footprint. They even have home brewed and barrel-aged alcohol that is produced in house!

Capella Ubud has managed to set a benchmark in the design industry by becoming a unique yet beautifully crafted experience. It has won multiple design awards and has become nothing less than a well-thought phenomenon. Bill Bensley’s brainchild has given the world a man-made, intentionally hidden gem.

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Viveda Wellness Retreat / a for architecture

• Curated by Hana Abdel
• Architects: A for Architecture
• Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3900 m²
• Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
• Photographs Photographs: Hemant Patil
• Landscape Design : Suman Shilp , A for Architecture
• Design Team:  Ajay Sonar, Monali Patil, Tejas Pai, Sushil Sakhare
• Clients:  Viveda Wellness Retreat
• Landscape:  Monali Patil (a for architecture), Mahesh Nampurkar (Suman Shilp)
• Text By:  a for architecture and Shreyank Khemalapure
• City:  Trimbak
• Country:  India

Context.  One of the most striking features of the site is its setting. The site is situated between the gigantic Sahyadri mountain range, the mesmerizing waters of the Gautami Godavari dam, and a mosaic of multi-toned farmlands, sporadic trees, cattle, cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats,s and so on.

The region has a hot and dry climate, especially during summers, but enjoys pleasant monsoons and winter conditions. The first intention of the project was to design spaces that responded to this setting. Most of the spaces are designed to create shade with minimum walls to allow maximum natural light and ventilation. All the buildings are perforated with courtyards and green pockets making the project breathable and decreasing the ambient temperature and adding the necessary moisture required in a hot and dry climate.

Materiality.  The second intention of the project was to understand and incorporate building practices from the Beze village and surrounding settlements. Typically, houses here have a stone plinth, timber framework, brick or mud walls and clay pot tiles for roofing. Construction activities, like most other activities are seen as a cooperative set of activities and form of mutual exchange of skills, labour and resources. For instance, a mason builds a house for a farmer who in turn pays him back in grains or by offering other skills. To that extent, the project is designed with three materials: Basalt Stone, Timber frame and pot-tile roof. Since the project is in a remote location, it helped to employ and collaborate with the local craftsmen who have a long lineage of working with these materials. Concrete and steel are consciously kept to a minimum in the project. All materials have been sourced locally (within 20 to 50 km), reducing the embodied energy.

Stone : The stone work on the site was mainly carried by the Wadari community. The Wadari caste, especially in the rural economy, are a community of expert stonemasons particularly settled in Maharashtra and Northern Karnataka belt of India. Basalt stone, available in plenty in the region, is hand-quarried, chiseled and fitted on site by the stonemasons. Most of the project is made with Basalt -load-bearing walls, steps, courtyards, landscape etc. This is done to deliberately create a monolithic character for the building, like a solid stone mould sitting gently on the landscape.

Wood : There are two kinds of timber that are used in this project: 1) Haladu (yellow toned timber, which derives its name from Haladi or turmeric. This is primarily used for the roofing system and columns in certain spaces. 2) Upcycled Wood – Indian teakwood, salvaged from 100 to 150 old dilapidated buildings in the region. Majorly done by local carpenters headed by a sutar, who is a master-carpenter, carrying his skills through generations.

Clay Pot Tiles : Clay pot tiles, which are used for roofing are made by a kumbhar (from the potter community) using the traditional methods learnt over decades usually within the community itself. The changing economy and building practices in the villages narrowed their practice down to only pot making. This was the largest consignment of pot tiles the kumbhar had ever received. As the kumbhar involved various family members and other villagers in the process, it became a good economic opportunity for the community.

Spatiality.  Spatially speaking, the project intends to deliberately invoke a sense of inhabiting the historically prominent architectural types of the region. Historically speaking, several political and spiritual practices have left their architectural traces in the landscape of Sahyadri hills and Trimbekashwar. Among which the fascinating ones are the medieval forts -typically built on top of the mountains; Wadas - beautifully crafted medieval houses of the rich merchants; Kunds - subterranean water bodies popular since the Harappan cities but explicitly seen in the temple towns across the regions; Chaityas - the beautiful and tedious Buddhist caves and monasteries; Ghats - the sacred river-front stretches of steps leading to various rivers where architecture and landscape becomes one. Each of these building types have a very specific and memorable spatial quality which the project invokes in various parts.

For instance, in the amenities block, made of five squares, each of the squares is designed separately with five different functions and a corresponding spatial quality: Naturopathy cluster as Wada; Massage rooms as courtyard houses; yoga and meditation dome as Chaityas; Swimming pool as Kund; and the amphitheatre and restaurant as ghats. The five squares are merged into one long block, with specific transition spaces, to create a spatial sequence with different volumes, qualities of light and shadow, textures and movement patterns that are learnt from the above mentioned architectural types, from the region, and an in-depth understanding of the respective functions. One of the results of such an approach is that it creates a heterogeneously homogeneous space.

The guest rooms are mainly conceived as clusters from a small settlement with winding streets and courtyards. Each cluster is organized as a circle, freely placed on a natural sloping ground to create a meandering path around all the clusters at different levels. The common court shared by four cottages becomes a social space for the guests to interact with each other and enjoy the distant views of the landscape, sitting in their verandahs.

The monolithic character of the buildings also helps in framing a continuous contrast between the landscape, the sky, and the space of the building, thereby always pushing the attention of the person from the building to the landscape, the environment around and perhaps even to oneself.

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