Trend: Indigenous Travel Week of April 11th, 2023 Trendwatch: How indigenous guides, tours and experiences are changing the way we travel– The Independent UK An overview of how tour operators and tourist boards are boosting efforts to promote Indigenous communities in countries across the world, to the benefit of locals and the environment–from Canada to Costa Rica, the Pacific islands to South Dakota. Increasingly they involve staying…
Wellness Tourism’s Next Wave: Indigenous Travel One of our 2023 trends focuses on how the future of wellness travel is a move from “placeless global smorgasbord to culturally-specific courses.” Written by New York Times columnist, Elaine Glusac, it explores how if wellness and wellness tourism has long resembled Disney’s “It’s a Small World,” buffets of global experiences too often divorced from place (…that Hawaiian lomi…
Beauty as a feeling Skip to main content Apr 05, 2023 How experts are redefining beauty through an emotional wellness lens. Beauty and wellness have gradually merged in recent years as consumers continue to look for wellness practices in new corners of their lives. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Snapdragon Capital Partners Invests Over $30 million in Spartan Fitness Holdings, LLC NASHVILLE, Tenn.–()–Snapdragon Capital Partners (“Snapdragon”), a leading private equity investment firm focused on high growth consumer companies and a founding investor in Xponential Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: XPOF), announced today that it has invested over $30 million in Spartan Fitness Holdings, Inc. (“Spartan” or the “Company”). Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Minibar Beauty: Hotels enter the beauty retail game In-room amenities have undergone a major upgrade. High-end toiletries from brands like Le Labo and C.O. Bigelow have become table stakes for luxury hotels, and many properties have elevated their grooming game with items like Dyson and T3 hair dryers – The Langham Hotels and The Encore Boston Harbor are two examples that offer these high-end heat…
This Pedro Pascal-backed biotech startup just raised $10M to fight aging Tally Health wants to use its proprietary biological age test to improve people’s health spans. Read the article on Fast Company > Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Indian wellness influencers must now display their qualification The Indian government is set to make the disclosure of qualifications a must for social media influencers endorsing health and wellness-related products and practices. This must be done in an obvious manner so that audiences don’t miss them. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
The $76 Billion Diet Industry Asks: What to Do About Ozempic? Annick Lenoir-Peek, a lawyer from Durham, N.C., has struggled with her weight since adolescence. She has tried Atkins and keto and spent thousands of dollars over decades on weight-loss efforts and programs such as Noom, Nutrisystem and Weight Watchers. Since starting Ozempic in late November, she’s lost around 30 pounds. Read More from the…
Wellness Real Estate & Communities 2023 Speakers From top developers expanding the boundaries of real estate to legendary architects to innovators of new standards and technologies, the speakers at the 2023 Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium represent the top minds shaping the future of this exploding sector. Join us for this unique opportunity to learn from and network with the top executives, developers, designers,…
The $500 billion beauty industry’s ‘green’ ambitions are a patchwork at best. And they’re falling short With no international standard for the beauty industry on how much product ingredient information to share with customers, brands can set their own rules and goals, giving rise to confusion and “greenwashing,” where sustainability claims are often touted but not substantiated. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
