Video: Solve for Happy – Engineering Happiness

At the recent Global Wellness Summit, Mo Gawdat, Chief Business Officer at the super-elite Google [X] engineering team, explained how he “solved for happy.” Despite having achieved amazing success (and spurred later by the terrible death of his son), Mo decided to attack his profound unhappiness like the scientist he is: creating a research-based algorithm for happiness.

Find out what the secrets are.

Video: Introducing the “Wellness Moonshot”

At the recent Global Wellness Summit, the GWI announced a “Wellness Moonshot,” or a global call to pool knowledge, access and funding to achieve a world free of preventable disease. Watch GWI chairman and CEO, Susie Ellis, and Dr. Richard Carmona, former Surgeon General of the United States, explain the urgency of this new mission – with luminaries like Drs. Mehmet Oz, Andrew Weil and Michael Roizen providing insight on what most needs to be tackled in a world where 70 percent of deaths are preventable.

A New Sign of China’s Growing Power in Travel & Tourism

China’s new power and assertiveness is apparent throughout the travel and tourism industry. The country just launched a new world tourism organization called the World Tourism Alliance (WTA), designed to compete heads-on with similar organizations like the UNWTO and the WTTC.Read about how – whether it’s in the field of global finance or tourism – China no longer wants to be dependent on decisions made by others.

Medical Tourism to Rise Substantially in Coming Years

A prediction: The endless increase in healthcare costs means medical tourism will skyrocket in coming years. Read about how (and why) Central and Eastern Europe are currently big winners with this trend, and just how fast outbound Chinese medical tourism is growing!