Global Wellness Summit Highlights the Travel Market

This year’s Global Wellness Summit (GWS) was held Nov. 13-15 at The St. Regis Mexico City and gathered a record number of attendees from the many fields that constitute the wellness industry.
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“The Mexico City Summit was a watershed moment, because passionate leaders from economics, medicine, government, technology, spa and wellness, travel, education and the arts came together to debate how to bring preventative health into our chronic-disease- and healthcare-cost-burdened world — much like when the world first came together in Kyoto to declare solidarity against climate change,” said Susie Ellis, chairman and CEO of GWS.
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In past years, the hospitality delegates at GWS seemed wary of the spa and wellness category; however, this year, the two fields were inseparable. According to summit experts, the emerging trend of employees working less and traveling more — especially in the U.S. and Asia — will help wellness tourism skyrocket even further than it has in the last few years. 

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