TREND: DYING WELL Innovative and Eco-Friendly Burial Practices The ways that different cultures return their dead to the universe varies wildly. Tibetans still practice sky burial, leaving bodies on mountaintops to be picked clean, while the Caviteño in the Philippines place bodies in hollowed-out tree trunks. The US and Canada are unique for adopting embalming, a just as bizarre (if you really think about it)…
Summit Trend in the News: Dying Well This startup is building a new kind of cemetery, and it already has thousands of customers—Fast Company A venture-backed start-up, Better Place Forests, is creating a new model for spending time with our departed that also contributes to land conservation. And they plan expansion… Eco-friendly burial alternative: You can now compost your loved ones in Washington—USA Today In…
TREND: Well Fashion—Way Beyond Athleisure Smart Clothes That Actively Boost Health & Wellbeing Clothes are pressed against our bodies all day, but aside from keep-me-warm or cover-me-up functionality, they’ve been rather “dumb.” No longer; a revolution in smart materials is doing what makes nothing but sense: clothing that optimizes your wellbeing while you wear it. A dizzying array of new technologies—from Internet-of-Things hardware/software to body-mapping…
Summit Trend in the News: Well Fashion—Way Beyond Athleisure What’s next after athleisure? Smart clothes (yes, really!)—Well+Good Well+Good Council member Susie Ellis, chairman and CEO of GWS, previews the clothing of the future—and the game-changing garments that are already here. Smart clothing may reduce energy needs for heating, cooling—Sustainability Times What if you could wear personalized, climate-controlled clothing, reducing the need for heating and air…
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…
