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 Wellness Moonshot Calendar: A Year of Inspiration is your opportunity to be a wellness leader at home, at work or in your community—and support the Global Wellness Institute’s commitment to eradicate preventable, chronic disease globally. GWI’s beautiful hanging calendar, monthly full moon celebrations and email communications will lead you through your wellness leadership journey, providing you with actions, resources and information that help you…
Each year I write my “Memory Lane and Crystal Ball” email reflecting on the year past and the year ahead. I share it with you because I have been told that oftentimes I see things on the horizon that might still be out of view for others. After four decades now, I am realizing that working in the wellness industry has felt like a calling and…
NEW! The Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings Report – February 2022 On Tuesday, February 8th during the 2022 Global Wellness News Broadcast, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) research team presented and released its NEW research report, The Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings–which focuses on the geographical trends and differences in the wellness economy. This research leverages the newly expanded and comprehensive dataset provided by the…
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…
