A NEW New Era in Health & Wellness The 15th annual Global Wellness Summit will bring together a historic number of luminaries from the medical, wellness, scientific and tech worlds. The three-day event will explore the future of all wellness markets – from global experts on what’s next for travel and hospitality to activists in women’s health & sexuality to medical leaders analyzing how wellness will become a more important force in…
New Slate of Speakers Announced for the 2021 Global Wellness Summit Reveals the Depth and Diversity of Disruption Underway in Health and Wellness 15TH ANNUAL GLOBAL WELLNESS SUMMIT | NOV. 30-DEC. 3 Speakers include Chip Conley, who shook up hospitality with Airbnb and Joie de Vivre, and is now on a mission to rewrite aging; Varda Shalev, MD, who transformed Israel’s healthcare system by harnessing the power…
Dear colleagues and friends, I am thrilled to be your host for the virtual Global Wellness Summit again this year. I assure you — this is not going to be your average webinar! We are going to have a great time together, as we listen and learn from those on stage in Boston and create our own impactful content online.Register today as a Virtual Attendee – if you have not…
In memory of Dr. Danny Friedland, more than a friend to the Global Wellness Summit and the Global Wellness Institute. Everyone at our organizations is in deep mourning today for the loss of such a passionate, brilliant, extraordinarily kind person—and a true pioneer among doctors for his vision of incorporating wellness into healthcare. Danny was a key contributor to both our organizations and the expert…
“Analysts agree that health and wellness technologies—whether in mental wellness or digital fitness—have now emerged as the hottest investment,” – NANCY DAVIS GWS Chief Creative Officer & Executive Director At #2021GWS, the Tech Innovation Pavilion enables our Global Wellness Summit delegates to experience first-hand the technologies and products transforming the wellness industry. The Tech Innovation Pavilion provides a unique opportunity to meet with the energetic and creative…
Meet the 2021 Global Wellness Summit Co-Chairs The Global Wellness Summit, the foremost gathering of international leaders in the multitrillion-dollar global wellness economy, will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, from November 30 to December 3 and will focus on the growing intersection between health and wellness. The theme for the 2021 Summit is “A New New Era in Health & Wellness.” Embodying this year’s theme,…
The New Overtourism Debate–Travel Weekly A great overview of how global travel destinations are creating new plans to fight overtourism–whether by ending mass-market marketing campaigns, curtailing short-terms rentals, or by banning cruise ships. The new tourism vision revolves around bringing in high-yield tourists, but the challenge will be how to not erect new travel barriers for the non-rich while keeping the numbers and destruction down. Should Some of the World’s Endangered Places Be Off-limits to Tourists?–National Geographic An in-depth piece with tourism experts explaining the different models now being launched to address overtourism. National parks, overrun by pandemic travelers seeking remote nature, are…
TREND: Fighting Overtourism Moves from Talk to Real Action The experiments–from banning short-term rentals to nixing cruise ships to charging fees to enter a place to marketing only to “conscious travelers”– are really heating up In our 2021 trend “The Year of the Travel Reset,” author and New York Times columnist, Elaine Glusac, predicted that this long travel pause caused by the pandemic would give everyone—consumers and travel suppliers—a rare, crucial opportunity to think of the ways that travel could be…
Media Contact: Beth McGroarty beth.mcgroarty@globalwellnesssummit.com • +1.213.300.0107 On the Agenda at the 2021 Global Wellness Summit: Future Disruptions in Mental Health and Wellness Speakers include Dr. Richie Davidson (Center for Healthy Minds) on how the latest from neuroscience will underpin new approaches for emotional wellbeing; Dr. Rebecca Robbins (Harvard) presenting new research on sleep and human performance; and Myndstream executive Freddie Moross on how younger…
