Our attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen–The Guardian,January 2, 2022 Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. Our capacity to pay attention is under attack and at the breaking point, but while we still can, we need to reclaim our minds. In this extract from the just-published Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, author Johann Hari argues…
New Data on Wellness Tourism: Projected to Hit $817 Billion This Year, $1.3 Trillion in 2025 The GWI’s new report on the global wellness economy includes eye-opening new data on the wellness travel market. It has the big picture numbers: In the pre-pandemic year of 2019, wellness tourism reached a record $720 billion, but then took a devastating hit in the pandemic year…
The Dominant Emotion of 2021? Languishing. The Best Antidote? Getting into the “Flow State” By Thierry Malleret, economist In 2021, the most-read NYT article (published on April 19) was about ‘languishing’ – the ennui caused by the pandemic, which the organizational psychologist Adam Grant described as “the void between depression and flourishing…a sense of stagnation and emptiness…the absence of wellbeing.” The joyless and aimless sentiment…
Pandemic Wellness Inequalities: Wealthier People Exercised More/Ate Healthier–Less Privileged Did the Opposite By Thierry Malleret, economist The consequences of the pandemic in terms of health (both for those who caught the virus and those who did not) are becoming clearer. And they are broad in scope, far-reaching and sometimes surprising. But the pandemic health changes are most striking when it comes to diet and fitness, and they’re indicative of the inequality problem at the…
Travel as Healing–New York Times, December 23, 2021 Wellness vacations and programming at destinations now go far beyond massages and diet advice, instead offering new respites from physical and mental stress. Here’s what to expect in wellness travel in 2022. Wellness Trends 2022–Well+Good, December 2021 Well+Good, a leading wellness media brand, has announced its predictions for the shifts that will define the wellness world in the year ahead–across the beauty, fitness, food, health, self-care, and…
What Is the Future of Wellness? 7 Shifts to Watch The GWI’s new report, The Global Wellness Economy: Looking Beyond Covid, predicts that the 11-sector wellness economy will grow at roughly 10% annually through 2025–reaching $5 trillion by year-end 2021 and $7 trillion by 2025. But future growth will likely look different than in the past, because the pandemic experience has sparked major shifts in how consumers understand…
