Trend Exploration: A New Era of Transformative Travel Millennials are Not Wellness Newbies Millennials (and even younger generations) will help drive these new directions in wellness travel. As Well+Good founders, Alexia Brue and Melisse Gelula, argued in their Summit keynote, millennials are radically disrupting the category. Watch More. In Wellness, “Transformative” is the New “Experiential” When it comes to luxury and wellness travel, those overly…
TREND: A New Era of Transformative Travel The One-Upmanship in Transformative Travel Experiences has Begun! We’ve been living in an age of “authentic” and “experiential” travel where even mainstream hotel brands now help travelers eat, live and spa like a local. Travel experts argue that “transformational travel” is the evolutionary wave, which doesn’t discard the focus on authentic experiences but takes it to a deeper…
Trend Exploration: Reframing the First 1,000 Days Obesity and Poor Diet of Both Parents Have Major Impact on Child’s Health A trio of new studies released in April indicated that a child’s health (from growth to development) can be profoundly compromised by the obesity and poor diet of both the mother and the father well before the act of procreation. Read More. Beginning of Human…
TREND: Reframing the First 1,000 Days Paternity Enters the Health Equation For decades, medical researchers have studied how a mother’s lifestyle, such as what she eats and drinks during pregnancy, can impact the developing baby. When it comes to the health of the baby, it’s been a narrowly mom-centric world and responsibility, with the health of the father’s sperm—and his part in creating a supportive…
TREND: Extreme Wellness Ice is Hot More and more people are embracing extreme ice as a way to recover from injuries, reduce inflammation, and even strengthen the immune system. The 2017 Global Wellness Summit featured a wealth of experts and “explorers” on the cutting-edge of the ways humans are hacking their way to better brains, bodies and overall wellbeing. Cryotherapy (controlled exposure to extreme cold…
Trend Exploration: Extreme Wellness The Joy of Surfing in Ice Cold Water There’s no argument that, despite the pain, exposing our bodies to extreme cold can make us feel completely alive. A great example of this phenomenon is from this TED Talk on extreme sports by Chris Burkard. Burkard quotes the social psychologist, Brock Bastian, who said: “Pain is a kind of shortcut to mindfulness:…
Trend Exploration: A New Feminst Wellness When It Comes to Economic Power, the Future Really Is Female From 2013–2023, the global income of women will explode from $13 trillion to $18 trillion and will control close to 75 percent of discretionary world spending. And as women’s career success and spending power skyrocket, their spending on designed-for-them wellness will also soar. Hear More. Wellness Has a Diversity…
TREND: A New Feminst Wellness Women of Color Remake Wellness The wellness industry has long—and extremely justifiably—been criticized for projecting a very narrow image: a tall, young, skinny, white woman. It’s maddening for women of color and just about most women. If #WellnessSoWhite has been a disturbing reality, we’re seeing entrepreneurial women of color jump in to solve for women of color, such as new…
Trend Exploration: A New Era of Transformative Travel The Next Frontier in Spas, Hospitality and Travel How to create more immersive wellness experiences that reach beyond copy-and-paste programming was the hot topic during this 2017 Global Wellness Summit Roundtable. Hear More. Wellness Activities Will Have Strong Ties with Luxury Travel in 2018 Travel marketers talk a lot about storytelling and experiences, but one of the…
TREND: A New Era of Transformative Travel Music, Art and Performance Blend with Wellness A clear trend in wellness travel is storytelling blended with wellness experiences, an aspect of the hot new trend “Transformative Travel.” In other words, not only are more performance, music, art and literature being served up at wellness destinations, but now wellness and the art/performance are being blended together—such as soaking…
