MUST-READS FROM THE WELLNESS WORLD (Week of December 29, 2021)

Travel as Healing–New York Times, December 23, 2021 Wellness vacations and programming at destinations now go far beyond massages and diet advice, instead offering new respites from physical and mental stress. Here’s what to expect in wellness travel in 2022. Wellness Trends 2022–Well+Good, December 2021 Well+Good, a leading wellness media brand, has announced its predictions for the shifts that will define the wellness world in the year ahead–across the beauty, fitness, food, health, self-care, and…

Industry Research – What Is the Future of Wellness? 7 Shifts to Watch

What Is the Future of Wellness? 7 Shifts to Watch     The GWI’s new report, The Global Wellness Economy: Looking Beyond Covid, predicts that the 11-sector wellness economy will grow at roughly 10% annually through 2025–reaching $5 trillion by year-end 2021 and $7 trillion by 2025.   But future growth will likely look different than in the past, because the pandemic experience has sparked major shifts in how consumers understand…

The Big Picture: Huge Growth Ahead

The Big Picture: Huge Growth Ahead With the pandemic ushering in a major consumer “values reset”–where prevention and wellness take on far greater importance–the GWI predicts that the wellness economy will grow an impressive 10% annually through 2025, when the market will hit $7 trillion. This graph charting growth through 2025 says it all…  Now let’s look at how each market fared during the pandemic–and its future outlook…    MARKET SNAPHOTS:   Wellness Tourism (pandemic loser, future winner): Grew…

Individual Sectors – Download Now for Free

THE GLOBAL WELLNESS ECONOMY: LOOKING BEYOND COVID Individual Sectors – Download Now for Free   ABOUT THE FULL REPORT The Global Wellness Economy: Looking Beyond COVID The 2021 report is the GWI’s most in-depth research on wellness markets ever: For the first time, it provides detailed numbers and analysis for all eleven wellness sectors: pre-pandemic, pandemic, and future growth rates; rich regional and national data;…

MUST-READS FROM THE WELLNESS WORLD (Week of November 17, 2021)

Energy, and How to Get It–The New Yorker, November 8, 2021 Some people possess seemingly boundless reserves of mental and physical fuel, giving the impression that energy, more than talent or luck, results in extraordinary outcomes. Why do some have it and others not? And what can we do to get more? Energy is both biochemical and psychophysical, and as elusive as grace. You know it when…

Wellness Practitioners Take Stand Against Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories Brewing in Industry

Wellness Practitioners Take Stand Against Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories Brewing in Industry By Thierry Malleret, economist  It’s been well documented that anti-vax conspiracy theories are infiltrating some corners of the wellness ‘family’–particularly in the yoga and alternative medicine communities (in the US, of course, much of the disinformation is coming from QAnon). This is becoming so pervasive that some wellness and yoga practitioners are now taking…