New GWI Research: Surprising Relationship between Wellness Tourism and Spa Spending and Health Outcomes The GWI’s new report, “Health, Happiness, and the Wellness Economy: An Empirical Analysis,” is the first global study of how spending on wellness (at both the national and sector level) impacts happiness and health outcomes. A collaboration with a key author and statistician of the World Happiness Report, the study…
Wellness Policy Series Since its inception, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has embraced the vision of “empowering wellness worldwide.” Even as we study and advocate for the multi-trillion-dollar wellness economy, we also recognize that the private wellness market and consumer action alone cannot bring about wellness for all. Widespread adoption of preventive approaches and healthy lifestyles is essential if we are to address our mounting…
MENTAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE 2022 Trends TREND 1: Finding Peace Within is Self-care At a time when everything around us seems afflicted and conflicted, finding peace within is the age-old pathway of the world’s great spiritual and philosophical traditions. There are many practices that can help us do this – and there is evidence to support the peaceful changes that result in brain, body and mind.…
The Complex Relationship between Money & Happiness: How Much Is Too Little, Too Much? By Thierry Malleret, economist MONEY, FINANCIAL WELLNESS AND HAPPINESS: An obvious link exists between money and subjective wellbeing (happiness), but only up to a certain threshold which economists and psychologists have a hard time precisely identifying. Anyone without money will corroborate that financial wellness is the conduit to other forms of…
GWI’s New Research: The First to Make the Case for Why We Desperately Need Wellness Policy GWI recently released its new report “Defining Wellness Policy,” the first research to make a compelling, evidence-backed argument as to why wellness policy is so direly needed now. It explains how a new focus on wellness policy could complement–but also fill the glaring gaps left by–both current public…
Defining Wellness Policy – FREE Report Graphics Now Available This is the first-ever study to define wellness policy and argue why it is needed. Using GWI’s wellness economy data, the report provides, for the first time, a quantitative analysis showing the positive relationship between wellness spending, happiness, and health outcomes across countries. It makes a compelling case for why wellness policy is essential not only…
