What a pleasure to have this conversation about wellness and hospitality with Madone Pelan, General Manager of the exquisite Oak Bay Beach Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. During our time together, Madone shares the history of this waterfront gem, highlighting its Indigenous cultural roots with Coast Salish Songhees, to its modest beginning in 1927 as a small seaside Inn. The hotel's most recent incarnation saw a complete renovation from top to bottom, re-opening in 2012 to much fanfare and excitement as the emphasis was placed on what was then an emerging trend - wellness travel. Today, under the leadership of Madone along with her fine team of talented hotel executives, Oak Bay Beach Hotel delivers exceptional, award-winning programs and guest services. Of particular note is the hotel's distinguished waterfront spa and healing mineral pools with adjacent beaches perfect for year-round cold water plunging in the Salish Sea!
Wellness Travel BC is a collective of unique travel partners that engage wellness travel-seekers to look at, and then book authentic experiences for rest, relaxation, rejuvenation, and re-energizing at beautiful hotels, resorts, retreats and destinations throughout British Columbia and the Yukon.
The Wellness Travel Show features wellness travel experiences for everyone from couples to families to solo travellers. We also showcase specialists from all modalities of wellness including nutrition, mental wellness, skin and body health, fitness and spirituality.
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Wellness Travel BC gratefully acknowledges that we live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the 204 First Nations in British Columbia and 14 First Nations in Yukon.
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