Salobre Hotel Resort & Serenity The Rise of Sleep Tourism: Your Path to Restorative Sleep at Tempo Salobre Maspalomas

Are you tired of restless nights? Do you find yourself longing for truly restorative sleep, even when on holiday? You're not alone. Recent data from Spain indicates that between 20% and 48% of adults struggle to initiate or maintain sleep, highlighting a significant societal challenge with potential health consequences. In fact, one study revealed that 77% of Spaniards desire holidays solely for the purpose of sleeping. This widespread yearning for quality rest has led to a burgeoning new travel trend: sleep tourism.

Why Is Sleep Tourism on the Rise?
In recent years, factors like anxiety, stress, and uncertainty have worsened sleep quality for a significant portion of the population. Our increasingly hyperactive lifestyles, coupled with the excessive use of electronic devices, reduce the production of melatonin, the crucial hormone that regulates our sleep-wake cycle. As a result, quality sleep has become a coveted luxury, driving a new and rapidly growing category in the travel industry. The global sleep tourism sector is already worth over $690 billion (£544 billion) and is projected to grow by an additional $400 billion (£315 billion) between 2024 and 2028.
Sleep tourism is more than just luxurious bedding; it's about creating an entire travel experience where improving sleep is the core priority. This can range from week-long retreats focused on teaching the art of sleeping well to medically-led stays where sleep issues are diagnosed and treated. Hotels and resorts are responding by ensuring maximum soundproofing, offering personalised menus that promote rest, and providing experiences that connect guests with nature. This trend reflects a broader shift towards a 360-degree view of health, with sleep now recognized as the "next chapter" after diet and fitness.

Discover Tempo: Your Scientific Journey to Optimal Rest
At Tempo Salobre Hotel Resort & Serenity, we understand that quality sleep is fundamental to your overall well-being. That's why our Tempo Programme combines luxury with science to transform your rest experience. We believe that good sleep hygiene is key to improving health, as optimal rest not only rejuvenates the mind and body but also strengthens heart health, balances hormones, and boosts the immune system.
Our programme offers a truly transformative journey towards health through optimal sleep, backed by expert guidance. We collaborate with Hospitales Universitarios San Roque, a renowned medical institution, to provide personalised sleep evaluations and expert guidance to help guests optimise their sleep patterns.
The Tempo Programme is designed to address every aspect of your sleep environment and routine, offering a comprehensive approach through its various packages: Discovery (3 nights), Recovery (5 nights), and Recovery Plus (7+ nights).

Here’s what you can expect as part of your Tempo journey:
- Personalised Sleep Assessments & Expert Guidance: Your journey begins with a medical consultation for a sleep evaluation. Our team, including specialists like Dr. Inmaculada Rodríguez Ulecia, a leading expert in neurophysiology and sleep medicine, provides expert guidance and individualised sleep optimisation plans. For those opting for Recovery or Recovery Plus, psychological consultations are also included.
- Cutting-Edge Room Amenities: Each Tempo room is equipped with a specially selected set of accessories designed to analyse sleep and ensure good rest:
- Actigraph (Fitbit): This non-invasive wrist device automatically records your sleep, monitoring phases, duration, latency (time to fall asleep), fragmentation (awakenings), and efficiency. It provides vital data for diagnosing conditions like insomnia or circadian rhythm disorders, and tracking treatment progress.
- Loftie Alarm Clock and Lamp: Designed to facilitate natural waking with a two-phase alarm and promote relaxation with a sleep reminder alarm and a red night LED light. It also offers relaxing sounds, meditations, and customized sleep stories.
- Dyson Air Purifier: Works silently to detect and remove airborne pollutants, projecting purified air throughout your room.
- Pillow Menu: Choose from a selection of pillows including down, synthetic, microgel, and cervical options to ensure optimal comfort and spinal alignment.
- Furthermore, rooms feature darkening curtains (crucial for melatonin production), soundproofing, a comfortable mattress, and aromatherapy to promote deep sleep and reduce stress.
- Holistic Wellness Treatments: Indulge in specialised treatments and massages like the Dreamtime Relaxation and Sleep Serenity Massage to induce deep relaxation. Additional therapies include Energizing Calm Therapy and the Waves Massage (in Recovery Plus). You’ll also enjoy daily access to the Be Aloe wellness centre. Our programme also incorporates breathing techniques, meditation, muscle relief, improved circulation, and sound therapy. For movement, we offer Calm Yoga, Zen Stretch, Serenity Flow Yoga, core exercises, Aqua Stretch, and circuit training.
- Targeted Nutrition: Our special dietetic menus focus on plant-based proteins, KM Zero (locally sourced) ingredients, and are free of saturated fats and sugars. A light dinner, consumed at least 2-3 hours before bedtime, is recommended to synchronise metabolism and promote deeper sleep. Foods rich in tryptophan, such as eggs, nuts, bananas, or oats, combined with complex carbohydrates, can enhance melatonin synthesis crucial for sleep.
- Specialised Supplementation: The doctor overseeing Tempo may recommend Are you tired of restless nights? Do you find yourself longing for truly restorative sleep, even when on holiday? You're not alone. Recent data from Spain indicates that between 20% and 48% of adults struggle to initiate or maintain sleep, highlighting a significant societal challenge with potential health consequences. In fact, one study revealed that 77% of Spaniards desire holidays solely for the purpose of sleeping. This widespread yearning for quality rest has led to a burgeoning new travel trend: sleep tourism.

The Profound Benefits of Quality Sleep
Prioritising deep, quality sleep offers immense benefits for both your body and mind. It’s essential for restoring your body and brain, helping you recover from daily stress, and improving your ability to make better decisions, stay alert, and maintain an optimistic outlook. Good sleep strengthens your immune system, enhances memory, protects your heart, and reduces the risk of developing chronic illnesses like diabetes, obesity, depression, and anxiety. Furthermore, deep sleep can improve your mood and energy levels, and even slow the ageing process, keeping you looking and feeling youthful.

Enhance Your Sleep Beyond Tempo
While the Tempo programme provides an unparalleled experience, remember that you can incorporate key sleep hygiene practices into your daily life to sustain better sleep:
- Maintain Regular Sleep Schedules: Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, even on weekends. Consistency reinforces your body's sleep-wake cycle.
- Create a Favourable Sleep Environment: Ensure your bedroom is cool (18-22ºC), dark, and quiet. Avoid blue light from screens at least an hour before bedtime, as it inhibits melatonin production.
- Mind Your Diet and Stimulants: Avoid heavy, spicy, or sugary meals close to bedtime. Limit alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine in the hours before sleep.
- Engage in Regular Physical Activity: Exercise promotes deeper sleep, but avoid intense activity right before bed.
- Establish a Relaxation Routine: Winding down with activities like reading, gentle stretching, warm baths, or deep breathing exercises can prepare your body and mind for rest. The 4-7-8 breathing technique (inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8) is particularly effective. to meet specific patient needs. These include Zenex for quality sleep, Mindex for cognitive function, Calmux for the nervous system, Artiok for joint support, and Iromax for gut health.
- Optional Research Contribution: Guests have the unique opportunity to contribute to scientific research on sleep and rest by voluntarily completing questionnaires for the University Fernando Pessoa Canarias.

The Profound Benefits of Quality Sleep
Prioritising deep, quality sleep offers immense benefits for both your body and mind. It’s essential for restoring your body and brain, helping you recover from daily stress, and improving your ability to make better decisions, stay alert, and maintain an optimistic outlook. Good sleep strengthens your immune system, enhances memory, protects your heart, and reduces the risk of developing chronic illnesses like diabetes, obesity, depression, and anxiety. Furthermore, deep sleep can improve your mood and energy levels, and even slow the ageing process, keeping you looking and feeling youthful.

Enhance Your Sleep Beyond Tempo
While the Tempo programme provides an unparalleled experience, remember that you can incorporate key sleep hygiene practices into your daily life to sustain better sleep:
Maintain Regular Sleep Schedules: Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, even on weekends. Consistency reinforces your body's sleep-wake cycle.
Create a Favourable Sleep Environment: Ensure your bedroom is cool (18-22ºC), dark, and quiet. Avoid blue light from screens at least an hour before bedtime, as it inhibits melatonin production.
Mind Your Diet and Stimulants: Avoid heavy, spicy, or sugary meals close to bedtime. Limit alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine in the hours before sleep.
Engage in Regular Physical Activity: Exercise promotes deeper sleep, but avoid intense activity right before bed.
Establish a Relaxation Routine: Winding down with activities like reading, gentle stretching, warm baths, or deep breathing exercises can prepare your body and mind for rest. The 4-7-8 breathing technique (inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8) is particularly effective.
- Incorporate Sleep-Promoting Foods: Consider adding foods rich in tryptophan, magnesium, zinc, and melatonin to your diet. Excellent choices include eggs, almonds, walnuts, peanuts, bananas, cherries (especially tart varieties), pineapple, milk and dairy products, and turkey or chicken.

Make quality sleep a priority for a healthier, more vibrant you. Explore the transformative benefits of sleep tourism and embark on your journey to optimal rest with the Tempo programme at Salobre Hotel Resort & Serenity. Discover our packages and begin your path to truly restorative sleep.