First 1000 Days Initiative Trends for 2019

First 1000 Days Initiative 2019 Trends TREND 1: Optimizing the home environment for “integral wellness” Optimizing the home environment for “integral wellness” will be the trend with the purpose being to lower stress, anxiety and depression and to optimize lowering inflammation. This includes air quality, less noise, improved light, lowering EMF exposure (which smart homes have a lot of), frequency of music, smells, and individualized…

Exploring Salt & Halotherapy Initiative Trends for 2019

Exploring Salt & Halotherapy Initiative 2019 Trends TREND 1: Day Spa to Resort Spa Migration While there are approximately 2,000 day spas/wellness centers offering halotherapy today, the adoption within the major hotel/destination brands has been slower to adopt.  The industry, however, is now reaching a tipping point, whereby travelers to destination spas have become halotherapy customers in their hometowns and want to continue the focus…

Digital Wellness Initiative Trends for 2019

Digital Wellness Initiative 2019 Trends TREND 1: Consumers demand greater transparency and privacy Over the last decade, consumers were smitten with all of the new devices and services that came with Internet 2.0. So smitten, in fact, that we were quite willing to give up significant amounts of privacy and allow a certain amount of power and control to come from corporate advertisers. It seemed…

Hot Springs Initiative Trends for 2019

Hot Springs Initiative 2019 Trends TREND 1: Multigenerational Features – and Accessibility – Make Hot Springs a Destination For All Hot springs are being designed with infants and seniors in mind to provide environments, activities and accessibility for people at all stages of life. Experiences range from baby baths and walk-in pools to massaging hydro jets and water slides. Whether it is high energy fun…

8 Wellness Trends for 2019

The only wellness trends report generated from the insights of 650 industry leaders from 50 nations, the Global Wellness Summit’s annual trends forecast is a uniquely informed, detailed and global look at what’s ahead in wellness. For 2019 we’ll see the rise of a “dying well” movement and wellness remaking the fashion industry to “meditation going plural” and scent playing a more dramatic role in…

Wellness Trends for 2019

The wellness trends forecasts keep rolling in, and Fast Company’s recent report on the “most promising” for 2019 identifies everything from the home fitness revolution to the “Drybar Effect” to a wave of wellness companies by and for people of color to “plant-based foods getting meatier.” One key trend: wellness real estate, a sector put on the map by GWI research. The prediction: In the…