Thanyapura’s Second International Resort Revealed

SANYA, HAINAN, CHINA 28 AUGUST 2019: Thanyapura World, the Singapore based holding company for the Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort brand, announces its entry into the Chinese market with the signing of its newest resort, Sanya Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort, in Sanya, Hainan Province, China’s most popular resort destination.

The property is Thanyapura’s first branded resort in China, and the company expects other management agreements to follow as property developers around the world look for new, experience-driven concepts that inspire guests to optimise their lives. To that end, Thanyapura World offers a model that combines resort living with sports, lifestyle medicine and wellness. The company believes its ‘active wellness’ model meets the needs of developers and visitors that want more than just a hotel with a wellness centre.

The Sanya resort sits on approximately 58 hectares centrally located between Yalong and Haitang Bay and will be designed by Dallas-based architectural firm, HKS, known for its cutting edge sports stadiums, hotels and healthcare facilities. The new property will offer 300 hotel rooms and 250 villas, world-class sports facilities featuring, swimming, running, tennis, cycling, soccer and multi-sport fitness; a lifestyle medicine clinic focusing on chronic disease reversal programmes; wellness centre; a members-only leisure club; multipurpose function rooms, as well as food and beverage and retail outlets.

Thanyapura’s flagship resort located in Phuket, Thailand, is recognised as a leading sports, health and wellness destination, attracting top athletes like Maria Sharapova, Jenson Button, two-time Ironman world champion, Patrick Lange, and national swim teams from around the world. Thanyapura Phuket is the only officially registered FINA training centre in Asia.

Thanyapura Sanya will mirror many of the same pillars programmes offered in Phuket, such as sports training, camps, lifestyle improvement and executive health. The expansion into China strengthens Thanyapura’s position as a regional leader in active living and healthy lifestyle resort properties that incorporate green technologies, feature sustainable practices, and deliver personal optimisation. The resort will target families, groups, corporations and individuals looking for a healthy holiday destination where they can optimise their lives and lifestyle.

“We are on the cusp of something very big,” said Philipp Graf von Hardenberg, President and CEO of Thanyapura World. “We offer something quite unique in the international hospitality market that others cannot easily replicate. China is a massive market with unlimited potential, and we are entering at the right time in the right location and with right partners. The Sanya Thanyapura resort also supports the local government’s ambition to become a magnet destination for sports and health tourism.”

Thanyapura World is working closely with developers, local governments and health promotion boards throughout Asia to build healthy holiday destinations that offer an escape from the city and access to sports facilities and wellness programmes.

The Sanya Thanyapura resort will be developed by Hainan Tianyi Tourism Investment Co. and managed by Thanyapura Six Arts Resorts Management Company, Singapore. The resort is scheduled to open in 2022.

United Soccer Coaches Partnership Announced

Thanyapura health and sports resorts is pleased to announce its partnership with united soccer coaches. Founded in 1941 and based in Kansas City, Mo., United Soccer Coaches (formerly known as NSCAA) is the largest football coaching membership association in the world, providing coach education and training from grassroots to elite level coaches.

United Soccer Coaches has trained tens of thousands of coaches in North America, South America and Europe and now looks to expand its footprint into Asia. Football is the most popular sport in Asia, and the affiliation with Thanyapura will provide coaches in Asia with established and structured coaching and diploma programs designed by United Soccer Coaches and delivered at Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort in Phuket.

United Soccer Coaches will offer short-term intensive courses, online courses and on-site personal training hosted exclusively at Thanyapura Hotel & Sports Resort in Phuket. The training courses will fill a gap in the market for shorter course programs that are both time and cost effective. The first training course in 2020 will be a National Diploma course followed by an Advanced National Diploma course, culminating with a Premier Diploma course at the end of the year.

Soccer coaches from some of the world’s top soccer clubs and federations have delivered ongoing coach education at the United Soccer Coaches convention, including Liverpool, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, along with staff from national teams in men’s and women’s football.

Steve Wallace, Head of Football at Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort, says that the popularity of soccer in Asia demands ongoing training programs for coaches of all levels – from school coaches to club coaches all the way to professional level coaches. “The best coaches seek continuing education and training, and our affiliation with United Soccer Coaches will provide Asian coaches with new courses to improve their skills and those of their players.”

United Soccer Coaches selected Thanyapura because the resort is Asia’s leading sports resort and offers the ideal location for camps and groups including accommodation, meeting rooms, training facilities, wellness center and clinic. Thanyapura also runs football training camps with some of Europe’s biggest teams and player development programs with AIA, Asia’s largest insurer.

Thanyapura Signs Partnership With Firstpoint USA

Thanyapura is excited to announce a three-year partnership with FirstPoint USA, the global leader in contributing scholar-athlete talent to the US market.

FirstPoint USA will work with Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort in Phuket to increase opportunities for students across Southeast Asia, enabling them to access life-changing sports scholarships at some of America’s top universities and colleges.

Thanyapura World is FirstPoint USA’s first exclusive Southeast Asian partner and is planning to host international regional recruitment events starting in April 2020. The partnership covers Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.

Founded in the UK in 2001, FirstPoint USA works with 2,500 colleges and universities in the USA, and is the world’s leading authority in American sports scholarships, having secured more than $200 million in scholarship awards for 12,000 athletes. Former FirstPoint athletes include 2016 Masters Champion, Danny Willett, England football star, Jamie Vardy and HSBC Shanghai Masters Champion, Russell Knox. The agency has offices in the UK, Shanghai, Melbourne, Singapore, Mumbai and New York.

Steve Wallace, Football Business Development Manager for Thanyapura Health & Sports Resort, said; “We are very excited to work with FirstPoint USA. They have an established track record placing players in colleges and universities across America. As a former student-athlete myself, I know first-hand what an incredible experience it is to play sport and attend college in the USA. Our goal is to make this opportunity a reality for male and female players throughout the region.”

Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort is a recognized destination for healthy holidays, sports training and executive health retreats, and was recently named Asia’s Leading Sports Resort 2019 at the World Travel Awards. The resort runs speciality camps and clinics, and has co-hosted youth soccer camps and CSR events with Chelsea FC, Tottenham Hotspur and Borussia Dortmund.

Andrew Kean, CEO and founder of FirstPoint USA, said: “FirstPoint USA is thrilled to be partnering with Thanyapura World starting with events at Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort in Phuket, a truly world-class sports and wellbeing destination situated in a stunning location. There is a genuine excitement for the potential of this partnership, and we are fully motivated to quickly open up the vast sporting opportunities we have to offer students throughout Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on football, tennis and swimming. Everyone at FirstPoint USA warmly welcomes the Thanyapura team to our family of partners, and we are really looking forward to our first collaborative event in April of next year.”

Thanyapura Announces First International Resort

SANYA, HAINAN, CHINA 28 AUGUST 2019: Thanyapura World, the Singapore based holding company for the Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort brand, announces its entry into the Chinese market with the signing of its newest resort, Sanya Thanyapura Health and Sports Resort, in Sanya, Hainan Province, China’s most popular resort destination.

The property is Thanyapura’s first branded resort in China, and the company expects other management agreements to follow as property developers around the world look for new, experience-driven concepts that inspire guests to optimise their lives. To that end, Thanyapura World offers a model that combines resort living with sports, lifestyle medicine and wellness. The company believes its ‘active wellness’ model meets the needs of developers and visitors that want more than just a hotel with a wellness centre.

The Sanya resort sits on approximately 58 hectares centrally located between Yalong and Haitang Bay and will be designed by Dallas-based architectural firm, HKS, known for its cutting edge sports stadiums, hotels and healthcare facilities. The new property will offer 300 hotel rooms and 250 villas, world-class sports facilities featuring, swimming, running, tennis, cycling, soccer and multi-sport fitness; a lifestyle medicine clinic focusing on chronic disease reversal programmes; wellness centre; a members-only leisure club; multipurpose function rooms, as well as food and beverage and retail outlets.

Thanyapura’s flagship resort located in Phuket, Thailand, is recognised as a leading sports, health and wellness destination, attracting top athletes like Maria Sharapova, Jenson Button, two-time Ironman world champion, Patrick Lange, and national swim teams from around the world. Thanyapura Phuket is the only officially registered FINA training centre in Asia.

Thanyapura Sanya will mirror many of the same pillars programmes offered in Phuket, such as sports training, camps, lifestyle improvement and executive health. The expansion into China strengthens Thanyapura’s position as a regional leader in active living and healthy lifestyle resort properties that incorporate green technologies, feature sustainable practices, and deliver personal optimisation. The resort will target families, groups, corporations and individuals looking for a healthy holiday destination where they can optimise their lives and lifestyle.

“We are on the cusp of something very big,” said Philipp Graf von Hardenberg, President and CEO of Thanyapura World. “We offer something quite unique in the international hospitality market that others cannot easily replicate. China is a massive market with unlimited potential, and we are entering at the right time in the right location and with right partners. The Sanya Thanyapura resort also supports the local government’s ambition to become a magnet destination for sports and health tourism.”

Thanyapura World is working closely with developers, local governments and health promotion boards throughout Asia to build healthy holiday destinations that offer an escape from the city and access to sports facilities and wellness programmes.

The Sanya Thanyapura resort will be developed by Hainan Tianyi Tourism Investment Co. and managed by Thanyapura Six Arts Resorts Management Company, Singapore. The resort is scheduled to open in 2022.