Trend: Not Just Digital Detox, But Analog Travel More hotels and resorts are channeling the zeitgeist and offering retro, pre-digital (even pre-industrial!) tech, hobbies, arts and crafts that restore what our screen-based lives have stolen from us: the social, our radical attention, the tactile and real. Think vinyl record “deep listening” sauna sessions and sophisticated arts and crafts programming … more blacksmithing than biohacking. Our…
Emerging from the keynotes and discourse on this topic at the 2024 Global Wellness Summit (GWS), Watershed Wellness is Trend #5 inside the GWS’s The Future of Wellness: 2025 Trends report, the latest edition of the longest-running global wellness trends report providing a detailed (130-page) forecast of the 10 trends that will make waves in health and wellness in the year ahead. Inside the report,…
Analog Wellness is Trend #1 inside the Global Wellness Summit’s The Future of Wellness: 2025 Trends report, the latest edition of the longest-running global wellness trends report providing a detailed (130-page) forecast of the ten trends that will make waves in health and wellness in the year ahead. Inside the report, author Beth McGroarty details how the Analog Wellness trend will shake up tech, wellness,…
Just Released!10 Wellness Trends Shaping the Future Purchase The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) today released The Future of Wellness: 2025 Trends report, a detailed (130-page) forecast of what will make waves in health and wellness in the year ahead. A Contradictory Market:In last year’s report, we noted that the wellness market was fast becoming a place of contradictory mindsets. A dramatically more high-tech, medical, hyper-optimizing and expensive…
Meet Our 2025 Trends Writers The Future of Wellness global trends report has garnered a superior reputation with media, investors and business leaders for its in-depth analysis on the meaningful shifts impacting the business of wellness. Far more than just a list of what’s trending now, the Global Wellness Summit brings unmatched rigor, business acumen and industry savvy to the study of the global wellness economy helping…
INSIGHTS FROM THE GLOBAL WELLNESS SUMMIT Wellness Trends for 2025 Straight from the main stage at the Global Wellness Summit (GWS), enjoy this seven-minute video featuring highlights from GWS VP of Research and Forecasting Beth McGroarty’s keynote panel entitled “Wellness Trends for 2025.” In this clip, learn the definition of JOLO, how the wellness market is diverging, what’s next in AI-powered workplace wellness and how…
Trend: Five United Kingdom Wellness Trends Week of September 18th, 2024 5 UK wellness trends set to take over 2025–Country and Town House Reporter Ellie Smith covers the research and trends (from wild saunas to modern pilgrimages) presented at the GWS’s London press event. But she adds some other great trend examples and angles. How saunas are challenging UK pubs as the place to meet–The…
Five UK Wellness Trends Wellness movements where the UK is a clear global leader include going much deeper with wellness retreats, being a wellness policy trailblazer, and innovating authentic, social water experiences–from wild swimming to wild saunas On September 10th, the Global Wellness Summit held a lively press event in London to introduce the annual conference that is headed to the UK for the very…
Wellness Travel Trend: Pilgrimages and “Epic Walks” See Further Momentum ’ If you only got your wellness and wellness travel news from the media, you might think that *everything* now is about expensive, high-tech longevity and biohacking programming. In our 2024 trend report, we go deep into the unprecedented surge for that new “hardcare” in wellness. But we also explore how new desires for “softcare”…
Trend: Pilgrimages and “Epic Walks” See Further Momentum Week of August 21st, 2024 These sacred paths have attracted a new set of pilgrims: fitness buffs–National Geographic This article provides a look at both ancient and new pilgrimage routes globally (i.e., in the US, Ireland, Sri Lanka and Bhutan), that are attracting a surge of walkers seeking that powerful blend of physical activity, spirituality and personal…
