Headlines in the Global Wellness Economy
Global Wellness News™ | June 23rd, 2022
U.S. Health Club Membership Reaches Over 66 Million Americans
BOSTON, MA-June 20, 2022- More than one out of five Americans belonged to a health club or studio in 2021, totaling 66.5 million consumers ages 6 years and older. The latest data shows a 3.8% growth over the last two years, a validation of the importance of the industry despite COVID’s challenges.
Playermaker raises $40 million for wearable athletic performance tracker | CTech
The Israeli startup’s wearable performance tracking device turns footwear into a connected solution that captures professional-grade technical, tactical, biomechanical, and physical data from the source of motion
Fitbit rolls out a new premium ‘Sleep Profile’ feature to better assess sleep patterns
Google announced today that Fitbit is introducing a new premium feature called “Sleep Profile,” which will offer users a new longitudinal analysis of sleep patterns while making sleep data easier to interpret. The new Sleep Profile feature will analyze sleep across 10 key metrics, inclu…
Forget Physique. Mental Health Is the Newest, Hottest Fitness Goal
Mental health and stress reduction are now bigger exercise motivations for Americans than they were before the pandemic, research shows.
How the wellness economy is raising the bar for co-living and co-working retreats
As the global wellness economy booms, shared living consultant Matt Lesniak charts how boutique co-living and co-working retreats are increasingly centred around wellbeing and personal transformation in the first of a two-part series.
Solo wellness
People are reconsidering their relational health with others and with themselves, focusing on their overall wellbeing and self-growth. A new solo-lens for self-betterment and wellness is shifting the way consumers operate in relationships. Many couples are taking relationship gap years by scheduling time apart to prioritize self-discovery and growth.
England appoints ambassador to shake up women’s health
“So you might go off to your doctor or gynaecologist or heart specialist and get told, well, you cannot have a smear here, even if it is due, or you need to go somewhere else for this, that and the other.