LNV Learning Day: The Early Health Resorts of Napa County

LNV Learning Day

The Early Health Resorts of Napa County

Goodman Library

1219 First Street

Napa, CA 

September 14, 2024

10 AM to Noon

Join Leadership Napa Valley for a Learning Day and opportunity to support two local non-profits. Napa County Historical Society Board Member, Don Winter, will lead our group on a VIP tour of the current exhibit at the Goodman Library. Don Winter has been a globally recognized Hotel & Restaurant Consultant for the past 50 years and specializes in Dispute Resolution. For the past 20 years he has served as a Napa County Lodging Historian and frequently gives lectures throughout the Valley. He conducted Napa County’s first economic hotel feasibility study in 1973 and he continues to advise local hotels and restaurants to this day.

Destination Napa: Philosophies of Wellness explores Napa Valley’s oldest commercial industry, that builds upon the Valley’s bucolic environment and 19th century philosophies of wellness. Resorts quickly sprang up marketing the curative benefits of the hot springs, fresh air, climate, and pastoral vistas. The “wellness” economy provided jobs and opportunities for local residents and put Napa Valley on the world map.

In the 172 years since the first hot springs resort, the natural resources of Napa Valley have sustained multiple industries, and although the resort industry has shifted over time from wellness to a holistic experience the industry continues to capitalize on the Valley’s beauty and climate, incorporation the excellence of wine and food that drives modern tourism and draws upon Napa Valley’s heritage.