Holistic vs MP?

[Bonita]

I looked and can't seem to find the answer...

What is the difference between a Holistic Therapy center vs a MP?

new here...thanks

 

[Hanna]

That's a bit like asking whats the difference between a Kimberly and a girl. Or between girls and women. MP=massage parlour, a very generic catch-all (and should, more accurately, be BRP body-rup parlour to avoid confusion with RMTs=Registered Massage Therapists) Casting about for suitably proper names, some MP owners have picked on Holistic (massageplanet.neties seemm to prefer Hollistic) Therapy as conferring some sort of legitimacy on a sign.
At the risk of being rude and racist; holistic outside probably means asians inside.
If you check the stickies here and in other boards and forums, lots of terminology will be clarified.

 

[Lores R]

Holistic and Bodyrub licenses are different. Holistic assinuates some form of health care.

 

[Melony]

Apparently, places that are Aromatherapy or Holistic spas have a different license that the Massage parlour spas.

I was told that they must close by 10:00 p.m. in Toronto. Massage parlours can stay open longer.

Al Cohol

 

[Anne K]

http://www.massageplanet.net.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13557

 

[FuryHUH]

That's a generalization. Many if not most of the Russian/Easten Euro spas particulatly downtown have Holistic licenses.

 

[Jesse S]

Thanks for the education, it's a poor day when you learn nothing.
I can't help wondering if Luc wasn't more interested in service options than license details. My humble experience hasn't revealed any differences from that point of view. But then I've never asked for aromatherapy, have I?

 

[ksbcrocks]

Yes you are quite right. I was questioning the differences in services provided. It seems that they are pretty much same in that respect.

You're right, I've never walked down the hall to my room and smelled any sensual aromas from the other rooms.

 

[Fofo]

there are two things that smell like fish, and one of them is fish!

 

[Sailors Girl !]

No, that's not quite so. None other than Studio B calls itself a "holistic massage" spa. (It is equally common for the word to be misspelled "hollistic"; that probably stems from operators having a limited grasp of English...)

I suppose that having the quasi-medical term might be hoped to lend a bit of cachet to it, but I haven't seen any meaningful differences between "holistic massage" and "just plain massage."

If they misspell "holistic," then it's likely to be Foreigners Inside, but that's about as much as you can safely infer...