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24 FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE 495
A SPA BUSINESS PUBLICATION
Onsen Group reveals thermal spa
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The Phillip Island Hot Springs project, a 13-hectare geothermal bathing facility, is due to open by the end of the year on the south coast of Phillip Island in the Bass Coast Shire, Australia. Approximately 100km from Melbourne, the project is owned PHILLIP ISLAND HOT SPRINGS
by the Onsen Group, a group of health and wellness-focused investors. Hatcher Advisory is managing the development. These two firms became involved in the project in late 2024, though
■ Phillip Island Hot Springs' offer will be based around geothermal pools
the project was first reported to be in development in 2019.
The first stage of the development
The investment will support
More than AUS$60 million (US$39 million, €36 million,
expanded facilities to boost
to open will be the Lagoon Bathing
regional tourism and create jobs.
Precinct, which will have views of
to the project. This includes
a sustainable, year-round destination
offering at the facility, with what the
AUS$5.2 million (US$3.4 million,
that celebrates the island's natural
developers are calling “Australia-
€3.1 million, £2.6 million) from the
beauty and capitalises on the
first geothermal experiences”.
Victorian State Government.
demand for wellness tourism.
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the Bass Strait. It will be the flagship
PATRICK SAUSSAY
The project has been designed as
£30 million) has been committed
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