Last week, at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, GWI’s CEO Susie Ellis presented the latest research and trends for MENA wellness tourism markets at the GWI’s annual Wellness Symposium, this year focused on the opportunities in both medical tourism and wellness tourism. Key findings: In terms of recent growth percentages, no world wellness tourism market is growing faster than MENA’s: 13.4 percent annually and…
This recent article in Quartz looks at what may prove one of the most unexpected but exceedingly societal and investment-relevant global trends in the coming decades: A growing movement of people around the world are hesitating about having children due to deep concerns about climate change. It looks at BirthStrike: an online community founded in England whose members have decided “not to bear children due…
Can A Fabric Make You Thinner? – OZY, April 26, 2019 Welcome to the new world of wellness textiles, or cosmotextiles: clothes, sheets and fabrics that are designed to cool you, heat you, moisturize you, clean you, reduce your pain, make you thinner or de-stress you. Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy’ – The New York Times, April 26, 2019 How America’s obsession…
The GWI’s agenda for its Wellness Symposium at the 2019 Arabian Travel Market is set. The session on April 30 will feature experts in both medical tourism and wellness tourism exploring the unique opportunities and trends unfolding in both sectors. Attendees will also hear the latest GWI research on MENA’s wellness markets, including its wellness tourism and spa markets, which in terms of recent percentage…
Here is a developing trend worth pondering (with significant investment implications): the slow death of the family and the emergence of a #MeOnly society. Consumption, travel, housing, etc. are increasingly centered on the individual. Do you doubt it? This is backed by data (the number of young and middle-aged people living alone is soaring) and surprising new trends, such as “solomoons” replacing honeymoons (you celebrate…
From copycat behaviour and cultural appropriation to a lack of diversity and unsubstantiated product claims, the beauty industry has its critics. And Estée Laundry is an Instagram platform leading this “call-out” culture. And call-out culture is, of course, controversial. Read the article in The Guardian
