Here’s to your ‘healthtel’: 8 wellness hotels

Peter GreenbergTODAY Travel Editor

What do the president of Iraq and your grandmother have in common? In a growing number of cases, it’s a continuing concern and focus, not just on the quality of their own life, but in the state of their own health as well.  And where do they go to get thoroughly checked out?

Welcome to the world of the wellness hotel — or the “healthtel” — a destination with a dual purpose: a resort as well as a full health maintenance facility. And, if necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then wellness hotels is a concept that easily fits that definition.