2022 Trend Forecasts Agree: Wellness Is Officially Overtaking Travel Around the New Year, the trend reports start rolling out, and what’s striking is that most of the mainstream travel trend forecasts agree that wellness travel will be a major and growing trend in 2022. As the analysts from the international advertising agency, TBWA’s trends division, Backslash, neatly put it: “Wellness has officially taken over travel.”…
Disrupting College Education & Rethinking the Four-Year Degree for a More Holistic Outcome Abby is the founder and CEO of MYX, “remyxing” the higher education landscape to combine online and experimental learning to meet the needs of the future. Wellness is so often about the here and now that it’s easy to forget about how much our formative years play into our health and wellbeing.…
Wellness vacations go beyond massages and diet tips during the pandemic–The New Yorker With the pandemic lingering into its third year, this article interviews hospitality leaders on how the crisis has dramatically accelerated the importance of wellness in travel. Travel is now about healing from physical and mental stress, and people want programming that provides some new answers about how to feel better. Hotels/resorts are…
Tel Aviv and Israel Make Headlines for Innovation, Technology and Wellness Tourism Bloomberg ranks Israel #1 for research and development intensity and research concentration. Tel Aviv boasts more startups than any location after Silicon Valley (and more startups per capita than anywhere in the world). The vibrant city of Tel Aviv is also becoming ground zero for health and wellness innovation, technology, and investment—making it…
The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI) unveiled its much-anticipated research report, “The Global Wellness Economy: Looking Beyond Covid”, which provides new global market data on the overall wellness economy and for each of its eleven sectors. The 100-page report answers the big questions: How did the shock of COVID-19 impact the wellness industry? Which wellness markets fared best and worst? What is the future of…
Global Wellness Institute Announces New Digital Film Series to Be Produced by BBC StoryWorks at the 2021 Summit in Boston Miami, FL – December 1, 2021 – The non-profit Global Wellness Institute (GWI), the leading research organization for the wellness industry, is delighted to announce it is working with BBC StoryWorks, the commercial creative arm of BBC Global News, to produce a first-of-its-kind film series…
15 Quick Takeaways from Last Week’s Global Wellness Summit The Global Wellness Summit wrapped up last Friday, and it was a heady three days of dozens of keynotes and panels addressing the many ways that we’re now entering “A NEW New Era of Health & Wellness” The conference, celebrating its 15th anniversary, brought together a historic number of experts from both the medical and wellness worlds (for instance, six doctors and professors from Harvard University keynoted). We could never summarize the depth and diversity of all the talks and conversations there, but at the end of each day, the 2021 co–chairs–Victor Koo, chairman…
Each year I write my “Memory Lane and Crystal Ball” email reflecting on the year past and the year ahead. I share it with you because I have been told that oftentimes I see things on the horizon that might still be out of view for others. After four decades now, I am realizing that working in the wellness industry has felt like a calling and…
A Healthy Habitat: Designing with Wellness in Mind with Joanna Frank from The Center for Active Design Joanna is President & CEO of the Center for Active Design in New York. They’re a non-profit on a mission to promote health through design in the real estate and landscape we inhabit. Now, they’re the licensed operators of Fitwel, the world’s leading certification system for optimizing buildings…
15th Annual Global Wellness Summit Celebrates Innovators, Visionaries and Thought Leaders The Global Wellness Summit (GWS), the foremost gathering of international leaders in the multitrillion-dollar global wellness economy, celebrated wellness pioneers and innovators at its 15th annual conference. The 3-day event’s robust agenda, with the theme “A NEW New Era in Health & Wellness” wrapped up last week. If you missed it, the Summit on Demand…
