Wellness Coaching Initiative 2024 Trends TREND 1: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Multiple studies have shown that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are vital to creating and maintaining business success and are recognized as among the hottest global topics of our decade (Milanesi, 2023). Anchored in the principle that everyone can thrive personally and professionally, DEIB is about giving everyone a sense of safety, respect,…
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…
World faces “deathly silence” of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts As technology develops, sound has become an increasingly important way of measuring the health and biodiversity of ecosystems: our forests, soils and oceans all produce their own acoustic signatures. Scientists who use ecoacoustics to measure habitats and species say that quiet is falling across thousands of habitats, as the planet witnesses extraordinary losses in…
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…
