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Spa Soap With their high standards and reasonable costs it is no surprise that Austria's spa resorts and hotels are

enjoying record numbers of tourists. While a two-hour purifying programme at a luxury London hotel spa costs around GBP275,

for GBP285 per person you can enjoy a three night stay at a luxury spa resort in Austria with half board, three treatments

and transfers.Austrian spas are also winning over guests by being among the greenest spas in the world. Now Rogner-Bad Blumau

in Styria, already one of the greenest hotels in Europe, is teaming up with WWF and letting their clients also help protect

the Amazon rainforest. The hotel is donating 50p towards the WWF's Amazon Region Protected Area Programme for each night

people spend at the hotel so with a yearly occupancy of about 80,000 room nights Rogner-Bad Blumau is set to protect an area

of 40,000 hectares of rainforest.News from some of Austria's other top spa hotels includes:Traditional Austrian herbal

medicine is huge success at Quellenhotel & SpaAt Quellenhotel & Spa in Styria, new spa treatments using local traditional

healing methods are now more popular than classic Asian-style treatments. The hotel has teamed up with the renowned Karl

Franzens University of Graz to develop a range of spa treatments based on traditional Styrian remedies. Ingredients such as

pumpkin oil, ice apples and soap stones are sourced locally and are turned into soothing potions by hand.Etiquette courses

and spa treatments for children at Sport & Wellnesshotel StockLooking after the little ones so that the grown-ups can relax

is just one of the many strengths of Sport & Wellnesshotel Stock in Tirol. The hotel is not only dedicated to keeping

youngsters happy by offering special spa treatments for children, but also instils fine manners in them on their popular

etiquette courses for children. Hotel owner Daniel Stock himself teaches his youngest guests essential rules of politeness

including table manners, general politeness and how to be a good host.