WELLNESS LIFESTYLE REAL ESTATE & COMMUNITIES It is time to treat our homes as an investment in our wellness. The Global Wellness Institute believes that residential real estate is the next frontier that will be radically transformed by the wellness movement. Our homes, communities and surrounding environment directly affect our daily behaviors and lifestyles, and together these determine up to 80–90 percent of our health…
Middle East-North African Wellness Tourism Market Ranks #1 for Pure Percentage Growth
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…
Some Millennials Going on “Birth Strike” Because of Climate Change
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…
MENA’s Wellness Tourism Market Ranks #1 in World for Pure Percentage Growth
Media Contact: Beth McGroarty [email protected] • +1.213.300.0107 MENA’s Wellness Tourism Market Ranks #1 in World for Pure Percentage Growth Global Wellness Institute Symposium at Arabian Travel Market reveals that MENA’s annual wellness tourism market is growing 13.3 percent, its spa industry 15.4 percent, and its thermal springs sector 30.4 percent; Experts tackled the unique opportunities for both medical and wellness tourism in the region Dubai, UAE…
What Will a #MeOnly Society Mean for Human Wellbeing?
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…
Middle East & North Africa Economy Monitor
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