(Posted 2025 April)
Ever feel like you need a vacation to recover from your vacation? You might want to give wellness tourism a try. Traditional vacations are often busy but wellness trips exist to relieve stress and promote health so you can return to your everyday life feeling grounded and rejuvenated and grounded. This is why wellness tourism is a growth industry.
To be clear, self-care isn’t new; we make gentle be-good-to-yourself suggestions to our volunteers every month in this newsletter. But the idea of wellness tourism is accelerating, and not just in the usual markets, like beauty, personal care, and physical activity. When things start to feel off kilter and uncertain, we look to escape. And what better way to escape than to give wellness tourism a try.
You don’t have to pack your bags and fly a great distance to experience this. Wellness tourism could look like a destination exclusively for wellness purposes, like a yoga retreat in the mountains or squeezing healthy habits and experiences into already established trips, the way you might stop in at a spa for a massage between sessions at a work conference or visit hot springs with your partner and children while on the annual family vacation. But if you want—and can afford—to travel to far-flung locales, go for it. It’s the White Lotus effect, and we’re not entirely mad at that.
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