MUST-READS FROM THE WELLNESS WORLD (Week of December 29, 2021)

Travel as Healing–New York Times, December 23, 2021 Wellness vacations and programming at destinations now go far beyond massages and diet advice, instead offering new respites from physical and mental stress. Here’s what to expect in wellness travel in 2022. Wellness Trends 2022–Well+Good, December 2021 Well+Good, a leading wellness media brand, has announced its predictions for the shifts that will define the wellness world in the year ahead–across the beauty, fitness, food, health, self-care, and…

2021 Global Wellness Economy: Looking Beyond COVID

The Global Wellness Economy: Looking Beyond COVID THE GLOBAL WELLNESS ECONOMY: LOOKING BEYOND COVID Individual Sectors   Wellness Market Snapshots Wellness Tourism (pandemic loser, future winner): Grew 8% annually from 2017 to 2019 (reaching $720 billion) and then took a major hit in 2020. The market shrunk -39.5% to $436 billion, while wellness trips dropped from 936 million to 601 million. The impressive 21% annual…

2021 Wellness Real Estate: Looking Beyond COVID-19 Report

2021 Wellness Real Estate: Looking Beyond COVID-19 Report GWI’s new report “Wellness Real Estate: Looking Beyond COVID-19”, included in the following packages, reveals eye-opening new wellness real estate market size data, recent growth rates for every global region, the top 20 international markets as well as key emerging trends that will define this market post-COVID. There are three ways to access this 2021 report: Download the free…

Six Trends in Wellness Real Estate & Communities from GWI’s Initiative

Photo: Tri Vananda Biophilic Design Six Trends in Wellness Real Estate & Communities from GWI’s Initiative FROM THINKING PAST BRICKS-AND-MORTAR TO PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY FIRST TO APPLYING WELLNESS TO ANY SIZE REAL ESTATE PROJECT-FROM THE SMALLEST TO THE LARGEST The Global Wellness Institute’s Wellness Communities and Real Estate Initiative has identified six trends that create a framework for how developers and investors can think about…