Media Alert: Sauna rituals and expansion plans feature strongly in early bathhouse survey findings Early findings from the 2026 Bathhouse & Thermal Wellness Development Benchmark Survey highlight guided experiences and event saunas: 77% of 47 respondents offer or plan guided thermal programming, while 62% have or plan a large-format/event sauna. Among the 37 currently operating respondents, 43% identify “Aufguss / sauna rituals” as part of their programming. Updated October 6,…
Exploring the Many Dimensions of Workplace Wellbeing: The 2026 Recommended Reading List
Exploring the Many Dimensions of Workplace Wellbeing: The 2026 Recommended Reading List Authors: Talya Landau and Jessica Grossmeier, PhD, MPH Workplace wellbeing has come a long way from wellness perks and health risk reduction. Today the conversation is about whether work itself is sustainable for the people doing it, and what leaders, teams, and organizations can do to make it so. To support that work,…
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (September 2026)
The $350 Billion Longevity Mismatch in Women’s Health–Boston Consulting Group BCG’s new 2026 Global Study on Longevity finds that women, especially those undergoing their perimenopause or menopause, have the highest rates of unmet needs. A sex-differentiated longevity journey underlies the mismatch. Women age differently than men, spending more of their additional years in poor health and experiencing hormonal changes in stages rather than gradually.…
Study: Walking Faster as Important as Step Count in Lowering Mortality Risk
Study: Walking Faster as Important as Step Count in Lowering Mortality Risk A 2026 study from the University of Sydney found that a quicker walking speed may be just as effective as increasing step count in lowering the risk of both all-cause and cardiovascular deaths. People who achieved fewer than 5,000 steps per day at a rapid pace had a mortality risk similar to those…
Wellness Real Estate Case Study: Expo City Dubai
Expo City Dubai Dubai South, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Located about 23mi/37km south of downtown Dubai, Expo City Dubai is a master-planned, mixed-use community aiming to become a model of a future-looking, innovation-driven, and people-centric city. Borne out of the legacy site of Expo 2020, it is the first ever World Expo site to be extensively repurposed into a permanent community, with over 80%…
Wellness’ Future Driver? Surge in Middle and Upper Classes in Non-Western World, Especially Asia
Wellness’ Future Driver? Surge in Middle and Upper Classes in Non-Western World, Especially Asia By Thierry Malleret, economist A Bullish Trend for Wellness: Worries about what the future looks like are eminently subjective because concerns about the world are highly dependent on who we are and where we are. In the rich Western world, we are now victims of the pervasive feeling that the world (i.e.:…
