Every tourism board and hospitality property on earth wants to attract visitors who spend big. Well, recent Global Wellness Institute (GWI) research reveals if you want tourists who are exceptionally healthy for your bottom line, pay close attention to the healthy-minded traveler. Wellness tourists tend to be wealthier, better educated and take longer trips—and both the international and domestic varieties spend SIGNIFICANTLY more than your average tourist. How much more?
“Employer incentives for U.S. worker wellness programs set record”
A survey just revealed employers have ratcheted up the financial incentives they offer workers to participate in wellness programs to an average of $693 per employee (in 2015), up from $594 last year and $430 five years ago. However, fewer employers are imposing penalties, like charging more for insurance if workers do not participate or achieve goals such as losing weight. This may be due to the fact that workplace wellness programs are increasingly coming under legal scrutiny.
What’s on my mind? Workplace wellness is a mess. I think we can help.
The good news? More companies, large and small, are recognizing that helping employees stay healthy is a good idea. The bad news? No one has figured out how to do it. Hence the mess.
But I also see opportunity. And that’s what’s on my mind.
This is the year to seize this opportunity—together. It’s one of the reasons this topic will be on our agenda at the Global Wellness Summit in Mexico City this November. The timing is right. In preparation, I’d like everyone to experiment with workplace wellness in their current workplace: Try something you think could make a difference. And let me know what you learn.
Trending Again: Wellness Homes & Cities
Humans spend 90 percent of their time indoors, but there has been precious little attention paid to designing buildings with an eye to boosting human’s physical and mental health. Until now. Wellness real estate is a rising trend, and it’s not just about amenities like amazing gyms/spas, but also “baking in” passive healthy building features like optimized air, water, lighting and flooring.
GWI Barometer Excerpt Thierry Malleret (March 18, 2015)
Renowned economist Thierry Malleret has a unique ability to scan the global landscape and boil down the “must-watch” issues for any decision-maker/investor. And for the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) he “connects the dots” for the wellness industry.
Read on to see what he identifies as the top four economic and political issues facing our world right now. And on the wellness front: Will the long “McDonald’s era” soon be replaced by a “Farmer’s Market era”? What do the current, sometimes violent, global “currency wars” mean for international travel—and wellness travel—this summer and beyond?
Hot springs with spa services generate roughly twice the revenues as those without—even though they only represent a third of facilities.
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) research recently revealed the hot springs market had reached $50 billion, spanning 26,847 properties worldwide. And while taking the waters goes by many names globally—from “agua calientes” to balneotherapy—markets share one thing in common: they’re surging.
Thermal/mineral springs locations without spa services represent two-thirds of locations—but read on to see just how much MORE hot springs facilities with spa treatments bring in revenue-wise.
