Wellness is a crowded and trust-led category, which makes the quality of your PR coverage matter more here than in almost any other sector. This page covers what a wellness and spa PR agency does, when it makes a commercial difference, and what to look for when choosing the right agency for your brand or property.
Kitten & Shark is a boutique, senior-led wellness and spa PR agency based in London, working with hotel spas, standalone wellness brands, and country house spas across the UK and Europe.
Wellness and spa PR sits within our wider hospitality PR work, alongside hotel PR, luxury hotel PR, and restaurant PR. For consumer wellness and lifestyle brands beyond hospitality, our lifestyle PR work is the natural next step.
A wellness PR agency manages how a spa or wellness brand is understood by the media and the people it wants to reach. The work usually brings together the following:
Spa and wellness PR is the work of building visibility, credibility, and trust for a spa or wellness brand through coverage you have earned rather than paid for. It spans hotel spas, day spas, destination spas, retreats, and wellness product brands across areas such as fitness, nutrition, sleep, mental wellbeing, and self-care.
Because wellness is a trust-led category, the emphasis is on credible, accurate coverage in titles people believe, not just volume. The work stays focused on health and wellbeing, expert-led and evidence-aware. For brands that sit across wellness and broader consumer lifestyle categories, the two often work well in parallel.
| Service | What it supports |
|---|---|
| Health and wellbeing media relations | Credible coverage in the titles your audience trusts |
| Press office | Fast, accurate responses, images, treatment details and expert comment |
| Launch and campaign PR | New treatment menus, retreats, spa openings and product launches |
| Influencer and content partnerships | Trusted wellbeing and lifestyle voices, chosen for credibility |
| Expert positioning | Founders and practitioners seen as knowledgeable, quotable voices |
| Reputation and credibility | Careful handling of claims so the brand is taken seriously |
Wellness and spa PR earns its keep when you have a real story and the right people are not yet hearing it. A few situations we see often:
Wellness is booming, and that is both the opportunity and the problem.
Figures from the Global Wellness Institute, Global Wellness Economy Monitor 2025.
More money means more brands, more claims, and more noise, which makes independent credibility the thing that sets you apart.
A feature in a health title a reader trusts, a spa reviewed by a travel editor, or your founder quoted as an expert does more for trust than any amount of paid promotion, because someone credible chose to feature you. That is exactly what spa and wellness PR is built to earn.
Wellness and spa PR is usually a monthly retainer, with one-off launches sometimes run as a project. Boutique, senior-led consultancies typically start from a few thousand pounds a month, while bigger briefs with heavy launch, event, or influencer activity cost more.
Because our model is senior-only, you are paying for experienced people doing the work. We quote on what you actually need, so a short conversation about your goals is the best starting point.
If you are weighing up wellness PR agencies, or looking for a health and wellness PR agency in particular, the right choice depends less on size and more on fit.
Kitten & Shark is based in London and works with spas and wellness brands across the UK and Europe. A London base matters for a health and wellness PR agency because the national health, wellbeing, travel, and lifestyle desks are concentrated in the city, along with many of the wellbeing influencers who shape the category.
The work reaches wherever your audience is, from a city day spa to a country house hotel spa or a wellness brand selling nationwide.
Kitten & Shark is a boutique PR consultancy where our senior consultants work directly on your account. Founder Clemmie Mason-Pearson has more than seventeen years in lifestyle and hospitality PR, including wellbeing and spa, with long-standing relationships among the editors, journalists and influencers who shape these sectors. Because the team is small, everyone knows every account, so your spa or brand always has a senior contact who understands the detail.
Alongside the core team, we draw on a wider network across event handling, celebrity booking, hotel sales, social media, digital marketing and SEO, international media, media buying and crisis management, so you get the focus of a boutique agency with the reach of a larger one. We work across hotel spas, standalone wellness brands and country house spas. Our focus remains firmly on health and wellbeing, which keeps our media relationships concentrated where they count for you.
A wellness PR agency earns credible media coverage for spas and wellness brands. That includes media relations with health, wellbeing, and lifestyle journalists, a press office, launch PR, influencer partnerships, and expert positioning. The aim is trust and visibility with the right audience, not just a stack of cuttings.
Spa and wellness PR builds visibility and credibility for spas, hotel spas, retreats, and wellness brands through earned coverage rather than advertising. Because wellness is a trust-led category, the focus is accurate, credible coverage in titles people believe, across health, wellbeing, travel, and lifestyle media.
Look for genuine experience with spas and wellness brands, current relationships with the right health and lifestyle media, care with health claims, senior people who stay on your account, and honest measurement tied to enquiries and sales. Fit and credibility matter as much as a credentials list.
Most wellness and spa PR runs on a monthly retainer, with one-off launches sometimes priced as a project. Boutique consultancies typically start from a few thousand pounds a month, and larger, launch-heavy briefs cost more. We quote on what you actually need rather than a fixed package.
PR earns third-party coverage that a reader trusts, such as a review from a travel editor, a feature in a health title or your founder quoted as an expert. That independent endorsement builds credibility in a way paid promotion cannot, which is especially valuable in a crowded wellness market.
Wellness marketing covers the channels you own, such as your website, email and paid social. Wellness PR is the coverage and credibility you earn from other people, such as journalists and trusted voices. They work best together, with PR building the trust your own channels then amplify.
Our focus is health, wellbeing, spa and wellness. Keeping that focus means our media relationships and sector knowledge stay concentrated where they count for a wellness brand.
A launch or a strong seasonal story can earn coverage within weeks. Building consistent, credible visibility takes longer, usually several months, which is why wellness PR works best as an ongoing programme rather than a one-off push.