Education & Training

Part of any indoor tanning salon’s success is providing ongoing educational opportunities for staff members. Employees only need to learn about skin typing and the tanning process, but also the unique offerings of the salon: its equipment, lotions, sales packages, operations procedures and more. The best employees will take their knowledge and become advocates who effectively teach and train customers.


  • Certification At Your Fingertips
    Posted : 10/01/2004 Certification At Your Fingertips Take Advantage Of NTTI’s Online Courses by Judie Bizzozero Industry education is perhaps one of the most important factors contributing to the growth and maturity of the $5 billion indoor tanning industry. Today’s tanning ...More
    October 1, 2004 Judie Bizzozero
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Posted : 10/01/2004
    Posted : 10/01/2004 Soak Up The Sun Sheryl Crow’s popular song, “Soak Up The Sun,” was released in 2002 and has become an adopted anthem for the indoor tanning industry. When it comes to feeling good, the warmth generated by the sun really delivers a general feeling of ...More
    October 1, 2004
    Posted in Articles
  • Posted : 08/01/2004
    Posted : 08/01/2004 Shedding Positive Light As usual, the indoor tanning industry was bombarded this spring with a tremendous amount of negative publicity. This annual media hype about the dangers of tanning is tiresome, not very newsworthy and as annoying as a pesky ...More
    August 1, 2004
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Looking Fit 07/2004: Understanding Tinea Versicolor
    Posted : 07/01/2004 On The Spot Understanding Tinea Versicolor One of the most common questions fielded by staff at the National Tanning Training Institute is how to handle customers who complain of white spots. To best handle this occasional occurrence, a salon ...More
    July 1, 2004
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Posted : 07/01/2004
    Posted : 07/01/2004 Marijuana And Tanning Recently, a local newspaper article reported that marijuana abuse and addiction has increased over the past decade while the percentage of people using marijuana remained the same. The article attributed the finding to the fact that ...More
    July 1, 2004
    Posted in Articles
  • Looking Fit 06/2004: Tanning Tour Makes Final Two California Stops
    Posted : 06/01/2004 Tanning Tour Makes Final Two Stops by Matt Morgan PHOENIX—LOOKING FIT® concluded its Tanning Tour 2004 with stops in Boston in late March and San Francisco in mid-April. Magazine staff, along with reps from California Tan, Future Industries (Boston) and ...More
    June 1, 2004 Matt Morgan
    Posted in Articles
  • Looking Fit 06/2004: NTTI Offers Variety Of Educational Courses
    Posted : 06/01/2004 Get Certified NTTI Offers Variety Of Educational Courses ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS to consider when looking at the indoor tanning industry is education. Since 1992, the National Tanning Training Institute (NTTI) has trained more than 14,000 salon ...More
    June 1, 2004
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Looking Fit 05/2004: California Tan’s Dollars & Sense Joins LOOKING FIT’s Tanning Tour
    Posted : 05/01/2004 Making Sense Of Training California Tan’s Dollars & Sense Joins LOOKING FIT’s Tanning TourSM by Matt Morgan California Tan, Inc. kicked off its new Tanning Dollars & Sense training seminars this season in conjunction with the 2004 LOOKING FIT® ...More
    May 1, 2004 Matt Morgan
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Posted : 05/01/2004
    Posted : 05/01/2004 It’s Time To Change The Message By now, we all should be aware that obesity in the United States is a huge problem. The FDA released figures in March that showed poor diet—including obesity and physical inactivity—is fast approaching tobacco as the top ...More
    May 1, 2004 now, we all should be aware that obesity in the Un
    Posted in Articles, Operations
  • Looking Fit 03/2004: NTTI Offers Free Online Consumer Education Brochures
    Posted : 03/01/2004 NTTI Offers Free Online Consumer Education Brochures The National Tanning Training Institute (NTTI) now offers the industry’s first consumer educational brochures online. In addition, the brochures, aimed at educating tanning clients about indoor ...More
    March 1, 2004
    Posted in Articles, Operations