Jackie’s appointment comes in the same month as The Spa, one of the leading hotel spas in South Africa, was named Country Winner in the category ‘Best Luxury Wellness Spa’ in The World Luxury Spa Awards™ for 2011.

The luxury spa hotel, The Oyster Box in Umhlanga Rocks (KwaZulu-Natal) is part of the family-run Red Carnation Hotel Collection. In South Africa, sister properties include Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve and Wellness Retreat in the Cederberg, and the Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa in Cape Town and other four and five-star boutique hotels in London, Dorset, Guernsey, Geneva, and Palm Beach.