(SEATTLE) - North Bonneville, Wash., resort destination Bonneville Hot Springs will pay $470,000 to a class of sexual harassment and retaliation victims to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the EEOC announced today.

The Bonneville Hot Springs Resort and Day Spa is located in North Bonneville, Washington, 40 minutes from Portland and Vancouver. It offers to "share the healing waters with thousands of rejuvenation seekers around the world" on its website, but it took the EEOC to heal the resort's employees woes.

According to the 2006-2007 Edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook, published by the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, the outlook for employment for massage therapists will "increase faster than average" during the period from 2004-2014. The Bureau defines "faster than average" as "increase 18 to 26 percent."

"Networking" is undoubtedly the best method for identifying career options, as 70 percent of the senior-level executives we've surveyed credit this activity for their success.

In addition, more than half of corporate and search firm recruiters reportedly find candidates this way.

But "networking" is a broad term, with differing interpretations, and analysis from our 16th annual Executive Job Market Intelligence Report (link below) found that this activity varies by age group.

Executives over age 50 are more apt to develop new contacts online and in-person and their networking actions mirror those of the overall survey group of 3,600+ senior-level leaders.

The tiny island country is the best place to live if you're an expatriate, according to a study conducted by HSBC Bank International, a Jersey-based subsidiary of the world's biggest company.

If you can withstand the scorching summers and drenching humidity, you can have a life that is far more luxurious than the one you currently enjoy at home, including everything from a nanny for your children to a swanky central accommodation complete with a swimming pool.

Kevin Maney contemplates: So Jim Ambras, the founder and CEO of NotchUp, came by to explain the company's somewhat-shocking premise: that it can get companies to pay you to be interviewed for a job. The site launches a gaggle of new features today, including integration into Facebook, and it's trying to get traction. The buzz on the Web is all over the place -- from commentary that NotchUp is brilliant, to put-downs that say it's lunacy and is instigating friends to spam each other.

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Welcome to Joya, Spanish for jewel, which will open in August at the 293-room InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley. Reporters and other guests got a recent tour of the two-story, 31,000-square-foot palace of pampering designed by Sylvia Sepielli, a world-known spa expert and consultant. "We're very excited about the spa. We want to be one of the best spas in Arizona attached to a fantastic resort. The spa is our signature element," said Valeriano Antonioli, resort managing director.

What the spa will look like when completed is left up to the imagination as construction work continues. But some of the finishing touches already are in progress from the installation of tiles to vibrant paint color choices. Antonioli said the spa will offer space. There could have been as many as 41 treatment rooms, but there will only be 19. "Space is luxury," Antonioli said.

Over the years, she estimates she's had more than 1,500 massages, ranging from an exquisite six-handed massage (by three people) at Trisara Spa in Phuket, Thailand, to a luxurious massage on the beach in the Maldives. She usually has a massage about once a week, and other types of treatments, like facials, about once a month. While most of the places she reviews are in the U.S., she also takes six to eight trips abroad each year to try out different destination spas.

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett said an additional 58,000 workers will be needed for the hospitality sector within the next seven years at which time Jamaica is expected to have increased its number of hotel rooms from 27,000 to 45,000.

According to Bartlett the two Casino developments - Tavistock and Celebration Jamaica - alone are expected to create jobs for 25,000 workers.

"The accelerated development has clear implication for employment generation in short and medium term and so over the next three-five years the tourism industry will need an additional 33,000 workers in their accommodation sub-sector alone and this is in addition to the 25,000 workers who will be needed to work in the Casino hotels," he explained.
The target for completion of the casino developments is 2015.

Bartlett said the Luxury and Casino hotels tend to have a higher employment ratio than traditional European Plan hotels and all-inclusive properties.

Meanwhile Bartlett said spa travel has become one of the fastest growing segment of the hospitality industry and that Jamaica has a natural advantage to tap into this niche market.