Last week, at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, GWI’s CEO Susie Ellis presented the latest research and trends for MENA wellness tourism markets at the GWI’s annual Wellness Symposium, this year focused on the opportunities in both medical tourism and wellness tourism. Key findings: In terms of recent growth percentages, no world wellness tourism market is growing faster than MENA’s: 13.4 percent annually and…
This recent article in Quartz looks at what may prove one of the most unexpected but exceedingly societal and investment-relevant global trends in the coming decades: A growing movement of people around the world are hesitating about having children due to deep concerns about climate change. It looks at BirthStrike: an online community founded in England whose members have decided “not to bear children due…
A large Swedish study, comparing 136,637 people diagnosed with a stress disorder to 170,000+ unaffected siblings and over 1.3 million in the general population (over 27 years), found that someone with a stress disorder is 37 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than the average person and 29 percent more likely than their unaffected siblings. ACCESS THE STUDY
Here is a developing trend worth pondering (with significant investment implications): the slow death of the family and the emergence of a #MeOnly society. Consumption, travel, housing, etc. are increasingly centered on the individual. Do you doubt it? This is backed by data (the number of young and middle-aged people living alone is soaring) and surprising new trends, such as “solomoons” replacing honeymoons (you celebrate…
From copycat behaviour and cultural appropriation to a lack of diversity and unsubstantiated product claims, the beauty industry has its critics. And Estée Laundry is an Instagram platform leading this “call-out” culture. And call-out culture is, of course, controversial. Read the article in The Guardian
MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION What can be done to reduce “easily” preventable costs that add to the fiscal burden of so many countries around the world? This is where wellness kicks in! New research conducted at Queen’s University Belfast and recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health concludes that sitting for too long costs countries hundreds of millions every year. The…
