Dear friends and colleagues, May 14 might seem like a long way off, but not to our team! We have been planning in earnest for the third annual Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium, to be hosted by our partners at JPMorgan Chase headquarters, midtown Manhattan. This sector of the wellness economy—real estate—has been booming for years now, even during COVID; the result has had an…
A Decade of Wellness Tourism: First-Ever Compilation of 10+ Years of Market Data In 2013, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) unveiled the Global Wellness Tourism Economy report—a landmark study that defined the parameters and characteristics of the emerging wellness tourism sector and provided, for the first time, market size estimates at the global, regional, and country levels. In that report, GWI first measured wellness tourism…
New GWI Wellness Policy Toolkit Proposes a Changing Paradigm for Wellness Tourism Tomorrow the GWI will release its latest report, Wellness Policy Toolkit: Wellness in Tourism. It is the latest in the GWI policy series, suggesting concrete actions for stakeholders to bring wellness to all in the context of tourism. Importantly, the report introduces a new paradigm, broadening the focus from wellness tourism to wellness…
Wellness Economy Research Master Class on Wellness Tourism Now Available to Stream Online View the recording of the Wellness Economy Research Master Class: Wellness Tourism held in March 2024 with GWI research fellows Katherine Johnston, Ophelia Yeung & Tonia Callender. At the recent Wellness Economy Research Master Class with a focus on Wellness Tourism, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) released the Wellness Policy Toolkit: Wellness in Tourism, presenting…
Trust Your Gut: From Digestive Distress to Optimal Health “Trust your gut.” In the past, this colloquial phrase has commonly hinted at the little voice within our souls that guides us to the right decision. However, in the last decade, “trust your gut” has transitioned to literally describe one of the most powerful indicators of optimal health and wellbeing. ‘Gut health’ is not only a…
Why Don’t We Hang Out Anymore? (Adults need to relax and do nothing together, just like kids do) –The New York Times For kids, hanging out with friends feels natural. But adults are used to doing scheduled activities with one another—and often, we don’t think something is beneficial unless it’s productive. We don’t realize that sitting around and resting with someone is still a productive…
