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Global Director, Development & Wellbeing

Discover Collection

Chunxia Gao

Chunxia Gao is Global Director, Development & Wellbeing at Discover Collection.

She has worked in beautiful hotels and resorts in Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East for brands including IHG, Hilton, Six Senses Resorts Hotels Spas and Minor. Chunxia started her career in the spa and wellness industry in 2001 after graduating from Hainan University in China, majoring in Economics. Her first job happened to be at the largest indoor hot spring spa in Hainan. Chunxia worked for 17 years at Six Senses in both operations and corporate office. Chunxia has worked on various business models of spa and wellness facilities from urban spa, casino spa to resort spas, residential wellness centers, and medical wellness clinics.

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