TREND: MediScent: Fragrance Gets a Wellness Makeover Aromatherapy 2.0: Scent as Medicine This focus on scent’s powerful connection to our brains and its potential to heal, soothe and delight is “making consumers hungry to learn more about how it can be leveraged for health and wellbeing,” says Matthias Tabert of International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), a leading innovator of scent. Of course, the concept of…
Summit Trend in the News: MediScent: Fragrance Gets A Wellness Makeover Aromatherapy: Scent as Medicine—Spa and Wellness International Huge leaps in technology, fragrance developments, and science-based research are making this age-old treatment new again. Functional Fragrance and the Rise of Scent as Wellness—The Sunday Edit When it comes to fragrance, it has more to do than simply making us smell good. The Future of Fragrance…
TREND: China—Uncovering the Wealth in Wellness Outbound Chinese Travel Will Transform Tourism China’s outbound travel will have the biggest impact on the global wellness market. Wanderlust among Chinese consumers will dominate and reshape global tourism with its explosive growth and unique consumption habits. In 2017, China Outbound Tourism Research Institute (COTRI) recorded 145 million international trips taken by the country’s 7 percent passport-holding population. Chinese…
Summit Trend in the News: China – Uncovering the Wealth in Wellness The Impact of China on Wellness…and Everything Else—Global Wellness Summit Cathy Chon, founder and managing director of CatchOn Co., details the trends and impact Chinese travelers are leading around the world. Chinese Tourists Are Going International—and Their Travel Habits Are Evolving—Brink As the Chinese middle classes grow in size and wealth, Chinese residents…
TREND: Nutrition Gets Very Personalized Tailor-Made Nutrition is Open for (Big) Business Personalized nutrition is big business—and estimates say the market will reach upward of $11.5 billion by 2025 . This isn’t too surprising given the market for specialty foods aimed at the many emerging “food tribes” (those who exclusively define themselves by following very specific diets, such as paleo, ketogenic and vegan) has exploded in recent…
Summit Trend in the News: Nutrition Gets Very Personalized Apps step up to the plate with diet and DNA-tailored advice—Financial Times New online services nudge users toward smarter shopping and eating choices. Wellness Trends to Look Forward to In 2019—Shape Four categories experiencing truly groundbreaking advancements and how you can take advantage of them. Personalizing Food as Medicine: Effective Microbiome Testing is the Solution—Ageist 2019…
TREND: Prescribing Nature Bringing the Outside In – The Biophilic Design Revolution Since more people live in cities, a walk in nature is harder to find, as most cities don’t have the benefit of greenways and natural parks. If spending time in actual nature is the new (and not so new) gold standard for wellness, creating the ideals of nature indoors is also booming. Biophilia,…
Summit Trend in the News: Prescribing Nature What is biophilic design, and can it really make you happier and healthier?—Fast Company A quiet revolution has begun to change the way people think about their spaces, and designing according to the principles of nature is reaching a peak. Biophilia: Turning Conventional Architecture Inside-Out—GreenRoofs Biophilic design is about more than planting a bunch of trees. It’s about…
TREND: Dying Well Death Doulas—Delivering You a Better Death Death has become medicalized, hidden and lonely. We need more caregivers that give the dying their full attention and companionship and work to meet their unique physical, emotional and spiritual needs during their extraordinary last days or months. In essence, to deliver people a better death. It’s a painfully pressing cultural need, and to meet it,…
A conversation with Henry Fersko-Weiss, a pioneer of the death doula concept From what’s the most important thing death doulas provide to why you can’t have a good death if you haven’t lived a well life Henry Fersko-Weiss is president of the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA). In 2003, he created the first End-of-Life Doula Program at a hospice in the US and has since…
