Dear Friends, It is my hope that you have enjoyed a special time during the holidays and are making plans for a healthy, happy and productive start to the new year. This time of year is filled with many traditions, and one of mine is writing this annual email, Memory Lane and Crystal Ball, and sharing it with all of you. It is something I look…
Wellness Tourism Initiative 2023 Destination Case Studies What makes a great wellness tourism destination? Whether you are a country, region, city or village – wellness tourism has the power to benefit your local communities, visitors and environment.The sector has just been valued at $651 billion according to latest GWI data. Downloadable Destination Case Studies Discover this ongoing series of best practice destination case studies from…
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS GWI research fellows Ophelia Yeung and Tonia Callender share highlights from the new 2023 Global Wellness Economy Monitor in this short video. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT
The End of Retirement–The Walrus, December 2023 The article focuses on Canada, but is equally valid across the developed world, and soon much of the developing world. People reaching their sixties are now in a dramatically different situation than that of their parents: they can’t assume that work has come to an end. Stagnating revenues (or pensions), higher life expectancy, and rising healthcare costs are…
The Climate Crisis’s Toll on Mental Wellbeing By Thierry Malleret, economist The science of climate psychology (the climate crisis’s impact on mental wellbeing) goes back roughly 15 years. There is fast-rising global evidence that it dramatically increases anxiety, stress and depression, and that humans as a species now live in a state of increasing “systemic uncertainty,” a psychological condition that takes a huge toll on…
