Canyon Ranch Health Resort In Tucson Named Top Spa For Food In North America By Travel + Leisure Magazine

TUCSON, AZ - November 1, 2001 - Canyon Ranch is delighted to congratulate Executive Chef Scott Uehlein and his staff for being recognized as one of the Top Spas for Food in the World by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine. In the November 2001 issue, Canyon Ranch was the only spa in the United States chosen and it placed fourth in the world as voted by the readers of Travel + Leisure.

Travel + Leisure's Top Spas for Food:
1. Thermes Marins de Monte Carlo
2. Clinique La Prairie in Clarens-Montreux, Switzerland
3. Domaine du Royal Parc Evian, France
4. Canyon Ranch Health Resort, Tucson
5. Hotel Terme di Saturnia, Italy

Canyon Ranch Health Resorts offer luxury vacations that focus on healthy living. Guests enjoy indoor and outdoor fitness activities, hiking and biking programs, delicious spa cuisine, rejuvenating spa and body treatments and workshops and consultations with wellness experts.

Canyon Ranch Tucson has been consistently acknowledged as one of the great health resorts of the world since its founding in 1979 by Mel and Enid Zuckerman. The resort has been voted World's Best Spa numerous times by prestigious travel publications, including Travel + Leisure, and Condé Nast Traveler. In 2000, Gourmet magazine named Canyon Ranch Tucson Best Spa, noting that Executive Chef Scott Uehlein and his staff have "brought the Ranch's cuisine into a new dimension."

Canyon Ranch's new cookbook, Canyon Ranch Cooks, featuring 214 recipes and cooking and nutrition tips, from the kitchens of Canyon Ranch, is available by calling 800-726-8040.