Sustainable Spa / Wellness Facility - 2025 Sustainability Awards

The Michael Stusser Award

This award recognizes a spa property or wellness facility that fully incorporates sustainability in its business strategy and management processes, spa facility, resource management practices, procurement, programming and treatments, staff and community engagement practices.

The entry form requires all information to be public, and all fields marked with an asterisk must be completed.

Not all questions may apply to every applicant. Please answer only those that are relevant to your work or organization. To ensure fairness, all scores will be normalized based on applicable responses.

Please note: Partial submissions cannot be saved or revisited. We recommend gathering your responses, photos, and any required materials in advance, as the form must be completed in one sitting.

1. Property name *This question is required.

2. Website *This question is required.

3. Property address *This question is required.

4. Main contact *This question is required.

5. Main contact email *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

6. Main contact phone *This question is required. This question requires a valid number format.

Please upload 5 photographs of your spa property (exterior, reception, relaxation area, treatment room, hydro facilities).

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8. Please provide a copy of your spa treatment menu.

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We encourage you to conduct an audit and provide a copy of your GSN Greenspa Calculator score per category. You can download the Calculator here and access demo videos here and here. While this is a voluntary submission and will not count towards your overall score, the tool will assist you in understanding your sustainability impacts and prepare for future awards.

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Corporate Governance

Please elaborate on your spa property’s sustainability strategies and targets, policies and management processes. Indicate if you engage with stakeholders regarding your strategies, if you have a sustainability team, whether there are initiatives to promote sustainability within the organization, whether you measure your sustainability performance and if you report on your sustainability practices internally and/or externally. (300 to 500 words)

11.

Climate action

Please describe the steps your organization has taken to reduce its carbon footprint, either through carbon reduction processes, or through investment in recognised carbon offset programs. (200-300 words)

12.

Spa facility and indoor environmental health

Please elaborate on ways in which you ensure a good indoor environment for employees and guests, by enhancing the availability of natural light, fresh air, good ventilation; by reducing hazardous substances including VOC paints and other indoor pollutants such as dust and mould and by incorporating biophylic design elements. (300-500 words)

13.

Resource management: Energy

Please describe the steps your spa property has taken to measure and improve energy efficiency, through operational procedures, energy reduction fittings and equipment choices, or renewable energy generation. (200-300 words)

14. Resource Management:

Water

Please describe the steps your spa property has taken to measure and improve water efficiency and stewardship, through operational procedures, water reduction fittings and equipment choices, grey water recycling, or rainwater catchment. (200-300 words)

15. Resource Management:

Waste

Please describe the steps taken to reduce, reuse and recycle waste within your spa property. Elaborate on practices to demarcate different waste streams, to engage with waste partners and to conduct waste audits. Please reference packaging and plastic reduction practices in particular. (200-300 words)

16. Resource Management:

Biodiversity

Please describe any activities your spa property has adopted to conserve biodiversity, use biological resources sustainably or improve natural habitats. (200-300 words)

17.

Operational Practices:

Treatment choices

Please elaborate on ways in which you provide treatments and therapies that align with your sustainability goals. (200-300 words)

18. Operational Practices:

Procurement

Please describe any efforts to engage with sustainable and ethical suppliers, or to source local and sustainable products/materials in order to ensure the achievement of your sustainability objectives. (200-300 words)

19. Operational Practices:

Cleaning and laundry

Please describe the operational practices in place to clean and launder in ways that conserve energy and potable water. Include reference to equipment, textiles, detergents and other cleaning/sterilizing products that both support your conservation efforts and your guest and employee wellbeing. (200-300 words)

20.

Professional and retail products

Please name the professional products that you use in your treatments as well as those that you promote in your retail strategy

21.

Social and community impacts

Please elaborate on initiatives to enhance workplace wellbeing and engagement, guest education and experience and positive community impacts, including training and development to enhance employee skills and knowledge; measures to promote diversity and an inclusive culture; community investment projects; support to disadvantaged and underprivileged groups; measures to foster a community caring culture within the spa property. (300-500 words)