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Wellness Travel 2030 Post-COVID19 - Refocusing the growth of wellness & travel

Industry Experts and Academics predict a healthy growth of wellness travel in the study from Health Tourism Worldwide and the Wellness Tourism Association.


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Feb 22, 2021, 06:00 ET

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BUDAPEST, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A pioneering study by Health Tourism Worldwide in cooperation with the Wellness Tourism Association shows the way to ensure a healthy future for wellness tourism, and point to areas with highest growth potential. The research calls for a closer cooperation between industry and academia.

The Wellness Tourism 2030 Post-COVID19 Report is the first study to compare the perspectives of industry leaders with academic researchers resulting in the refocusing of the main global and regional trends in wellness motivated travel in 2025-2030.

We are surprised that industry respondents discussed treatments and services in term of what is offered, whereas academia suggests that we should focus on the expected outcomes of those treatments and programmes

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Travellers want to incorporate more "wellness" into their trips and wellness is a main motivation for travel. At the same time it appears that any service and programme could have an angle that can be further "wellnessified!"

Industry leaders are focused on the physical nature of wellness treatments and programmes, while academia point to the intended outcome and benefits of those treatments and programmes. Laszlo Puczko, CEO of Health Tourism Worldwide said, "We are surprised that industry respondents discussed treatments and services in term of what is offered, whereas academia suggests that we should focus on the expected outcomes of those treatments and programmes."

During the global travel crisis brought about by the pandemic, the industry look has looked for resources and approaches that can influence the future of wellness travel. Based on our study industry representatives estimate that

  • Spiritual practices and treatments based on local, natural resources represent the highest growth potential.
  • Academic researchers find that sport & fitness as well as medical wellness propositions also show potential through to 2030. Interestingly there is an agreement between both groups that alternative therapies and New Age approaches may not represent significant opportunities.
  • The findings confirm that wellness has several facets and the industry should be open to new products and ideas, e.g. spirituality/wellness oriented festivals. The results suggest that resort spas, lifestyle-oriented resorts and eco spas and wellness centers can represent great growth potential, whereas workplace wellness trips should not expect significant development.

It is critical to note that the study confirmed that popularity of services and facility types can vary by market segments as well as by geographical areas. Although wellness, as a concept, enjoys global interest, the ways in which it is used in hospitality, healthcare and destination development very much depend on the local circumstances.

For example industry representatives believe that in the USA it is solo female travellers who remain the dominant market segment for the wellness travel product. At the same time it is also anticipated by academia representatives that guests looking for healthy options as well as same-sex couples will also represent important segments along with the solo female travellers. In Europe, however, the results suggest a more balanced segment mix with couples, groups of friend, families and guests who look for healthy options, in general. Not unexpectedly, both respondent groups believe that single men will be the leading segment for wellness travel in the Middle East.

The greatest differences in how the two respondent groups consider the future of wellness tourism lies in the assessment of motivation triggers for wellness travel. Industry representatives believe that de-stress, recharge and relaxation will lead the demand for wellness trips, whereas academia respondents stress the importance of self-healing, fitness and also as a personal reward.

The Wellness Travel 2030 Post COVID19 study results highlight that travellers want to know and understand more about wellness travel. They will actively seek out relevant services, hotels, resorts, retreats and destinations. Post-pandemic wellness-minded travellers will make decisions about their travels much closer to the actual date of travel, and likely they will prefer destinations that are closer to home.

"As both industry and academic respondents agree – the future of wellness tourism is bright," says Anne Dimon, President and CEO of the Wellness Tourism Association. "Over the last year, so many more people have come to realize the true value of good health, and it is these same people who will fuel the demand for everything that the industry embraces."

It is clear that there is not only room but it is a need for the exchanging of ideas and data between the two respondent groups. This pioneering study confirmed that sharing the approaches and the results of how industry and academia look at wellness travel can be mutually beneficial and inspiring.

The online study was conducted during the spring of 2020 and collected responses from 131 industry representatives (from 25 countries) and from 59 academia representatives (from 24 countries).

About HTWW
Health Tourism Worldwide is a pioneering initiative which looks at leisure, lifestyle and travel from a wellbeing perspective. HTWW founders have been working with public sector representatives in supporting their planning and strategic work as well as facilitating private sector development in four continents. HTWW proudly incorporates academic rigour in every advisory, strategy making, research or feasibility assessing work. HTWW industry intelligence, disruptive and inspiring work has been used widely.

HTWW had run its visionary 4WResearch: Well What for Whom and Where from in 2012. We are proud to recognise that most of our projections were proved to be realistic and many got realised.

In this wellness tourism research project we understood that wellness tourism represents forms of tourism which aim to improve and balance all of the main domains of human life including physical, mental, emotional, occupational, intellectual and spiritual. As the research partner Wellness Tourism Association highlighted wellness tourism is a specific division of the global tourism industry that is defined by the common goal of marketing natural assets and activities primarily focused on serving the wellness-minded consumer and those who want to be.
https://htww.life

About WTA
Launched in 2018 as a U.S. based not-for-profit, privately-held, global organization, the WTA was established and designed to support and serve the growing wellness tourism industry.

The mission is to support and further the growth and development of the wellness tourism industry through networking, education research and communication.

The objectives are to bring clarification to the industry thru definitions and standards and as well as educate consumers and travel agents to recognize legitimate and credible wellness suppliers and operators.

Membership is open to qualifying destination marketing organizations, hotels and resorts, destination spas, tour operators, travel advisors, wellness educators and others with an interest in supporting the industry and helping shape its future and sustainability.

In celebration of its third year of operation, the WTA has partnered with The Travel Institute on a Wellness Travel Specialist Course.

https://www.wellnesstourismassociation.org/

Media Contact

Laszlo Puczko, [email protected], +36 203987562, [email protected]

SOURCE Health Tourism Worldwide

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