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…
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;…
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 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…
The Number of Wellness-Certified Buildings Explodes One clear indication of the extraordinary rise of wellness real estate is the number of projects earning wellness building certifications in recent years. The GWI’s new report, Wellness Real Estate: Looking Beyond COVID-19, finds that the total number of wellness-certified building projects from the two big players, The Well Building Standard (WELL) and Fitwel, have grown ninefold in the last three years. As of August 2021, there were…
Want to add healthy years to your life? Here’s what new longevity research says–Washington Post, October 4, 2021 Recent research points to interventions in diet, exercise and mental outlook that could slow down aging and age-related diseases without risky bio–hacks such as unproven gene therapies. According to a biochemist who runs the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California, a multidisciplinary approach involving these…
