The Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel’s spa manager Kabir Aliri has added its long list of accolades with success of his own in the Boutique Hotelier Awards 2018.
Kabir, pictured, heads the award-winning Spa Village at the five-star Bath hotel. His hands-on approach and minute attention to detail, which has led the spa to a number of impressive successes since its opening in 2015, earned him the title of Spa Manager of the Year at the awards. 
Leading a team of 31 therapists, senior therapists, trainers, spa concierge and attendants, Kabir is renowned for being a hands-on manager and still performs many of the treatments himself, including the famous immersive water experience, the Freedom Treatment.
Under Kabir’s guidance and continued efforts, the spa has won a number of awards, both in the consumer and trade sectors, including the 2018 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Travel Awards, and Tatler Spa Awards Bathing Beauty Award in 2016.
The Boutique Hotelier Awards, now in their fifth year, are staged by Boutique Hotelier, one of the hotel industry’s leading magazines. Following a nomination process, the award winners were selected by a board of carefully chosen judges and Kabir was awarded the accolade out of a shortlist of five UK Spa Managers.
Boutique Hotelier editor Zoe Monk said: “We had a record number of nominations this year, with all winners and finalists thorough deserving their place in the awards. Kabir impressed the judges with his attention to detail and savvy approach to maintaining standards at The Gainsborough Bath Spa, which is widely known as one of the best in the business.”
The £35m, 99-room Gainsborough – the only member of The Leading Hotels of the World in the South West England – has won a string of awards since opening three years ago as Malaysian group YTL Hotels first in the UK.
Last year it won the Hotel of the Year (England) title at the 2017 AA Hospitality Awards, award while its restaurant has been confirmed as among the best in England. It was also named as the number one hotel in the UK outside of London, number two in Europe and number three in the world by readers of the US version of Condé Nast Traveler magazine.
