New resort with spa services

Hello all, I’m consulting/project managing with a group opening a ‘glamping’ resort and will have one cabin dedicated to couples massage experiences only. I’m trying to work out how to best staff this.

MTs will be independent contractors to start, so my thought is to pull together a list of MTs we could bring in when sessions are booked, or hire for an entire day. I’d appreciate some insight from you all regarding how to best structure the MTs time, estimate on lead time, how comfortable MTs are with working alongside another MT, what equipment/supplies are expected to be provided. Our goal is to have everything needed on site, MTs would just need to show up.

We’re working on our spa establishment license and will have a compliance officer who is a member of the resort staff. What can we do to make this a good gig for an MT? We’re starting out small, so max per day would be 3. Our initial thought is to create a roster of MTs (ideally 10–12) to be brought in on an as-needed basis or hired for a full day. What would a reasonable amount of lead time be? Would a day rate to 'hold' an MT for the day, with additional pay if a session is booked, be a more fair or attractive model than a purely on-call, per-session rate? I want to make sure we’re equitable and fair in our staffing, so trying to think of different scenarios.

Any thoughts, guidance from this community super appreciated! I’ve been lurking and researching what I can here and it’s been a huge help 🙂