Research Dive: Per Capita Spending on Wellness Around the World GWI’s 2024 report, The Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings (2019-2022), provides two different sets of country rankings. When we look at overall wellness economy size, the countries that come out on top tend to be countries with very large overall economies and populations: the United States, China, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. However, when we…
The UKIHCA Professional Standards for Education and Training in Whole-Health & Wellbeing Coaching 2024 Health Coaching: A Whole-Health Approach UKIHCA and its members are committed to playing a leading role in the movement for whole-health creation – a movement which considers the impact of the unique bio-psycho-emotional-social-spiritual-environmental factors on individual health, reaching out across borders to influence the development of international professional standards and the…
SUPPORTING UN 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG’S) INITIATIVE 2024 Trends The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are showing a strong movement towards integrating sustainability into core business strategies and operations. The most popular UN SDG trends for 2024 indicate that businesses globally are not only recognising the importance of the SDGs but are also actively incorporating them into their strategic frameworks to drive long-term…
Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of “overtourism” in the summer of 2024 –Associated Press 2024 is the first year in which global tourism set records since the pandemic. Wandering is surging, rather than leveling off, driven by lingering revenge travel, digital nomad campaigns and so-called “golden visas” driving skyrocketing housing prices. Anyone paying attention during this summer of overtourism knows the…
Wellness Economy Research Webinar Series GWI’s researchers are the pioneers and powerhouse team that have defined and measured the global wellness economy and its 11 sectors for the last 15 years. How do they do this work? What are their current and evolving thoughts on the wellness economy? In this quarterly webinar series, GWI Research Fellows Ophelia Yeung, Katherine Johnston, and Tonia Callender will give…
Wellness Economy Research Webinar MENTAL WELLNESS Faced with worsening mental health and rising rates of loneliness, global communities are searching for ways to promote our wellbeing. Watch the Global Wellness Institute Research Fellows in a conversation led by Tonia Callender as they discuss how mental wellness policy can promote resilience and support community connections, and explore the link between mental wellness and mental health. They…
