Healing Together: Inside 2026’s ‘Family Wellness’ Trend

By James Mathew Call it a momentous de-stressing movement or a silent digital-detoxing drive, if you want. 2026 is rapidly emerging as a year of ‘family wellness’ trips, prioritizing collective mental health, physical vitality, and intentional digital disconnection. Travel plans are fast shifting away from traditional, high-stress sightseeing vacations, with families – involving multi-generations –...

By James Mathew Move over destination weddings, ‘Wellness Weddings’ – seeking to blend love and well-being – are emerging as the new fad among Gen Z and millennials, fast rising as the high-end subset of the estimated $65 billion global destination wedding market. The trend is reportedly seeing a surge in 2026, with the ‘wellness...

By James Mathew The wellness sector is seeing a democratisation move globally, with community-level wellness initiatives in different parts of the world are transforming it from a luxury, individualist pursuit into an accessible, collective necessity, industry experts and studies revealed. The grassroots-shift is replacing clinical data-tracking and high-cost ‘optimization’ with affordable, community-centred activities focused on...

By James Mathew A ray of hope in times of turmoil? The massive demographic shift towards wellness pursuits is fast emerging as the new growth engine for world economy amidst the West Asia conflict-induced uncertainties, triggering a significant rise in the ‘longevity’ economy. ‘Longevity’ economy, the newly emerging economic segment, spun from the shift from...

By James Mathew The concept of living well means different things to different people, right? Not any more, if one goes by the latest craze for seeking wellness tools and programmes to prepare for a longer and healthy life! World over, citizens and netizens are increasingly prioritizing ‘healthspan’ – the number of years lived in...

By James Mathew At last, the worst seems to be over for the medical tourism sector globally. The industry is showing signs a rebound as of late April 2026 with market players collectively expressing a sigh of relief amidst the continuation of the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East conflict well beyond the initial 2-week...

By James Mathew Make hay while the sun shines! The global medical tourism landscape is witnessing a major churn, with some of the ‘underdog’ cities in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe emerging as the new star performers in the last two months as patients and service providers pivot away from the West Asia...

By James Mathew ‘Cautious optimism’ is the operative word now! The wellness and medical tourism sectors globally are on a ‘watch and pray’ mode following the two-week ceasefire announcement on the West Asia war. While the fragile and temporary truce has provided a ray of hope for a ‘recovery phase’ for the sectors, market players...

By James Mathew The West Asia war has set off a structural recalibration in the global wellness tourism market, with markets witnessing ‘cocooning’ – short trips to nearby locations – and diversification trends, altering revenue projections in leading destination countries. The luxury wellness sector, heavily dependent on stability, may bear a significant brunt of the...

By James Mathew ‘Safety’ has suddenly become the new buzzword in the global wellness tourism market, gaining much currency in the last few weeks. From South America to North America, from Europe to Asia, wellness tourism market players in leading destination countries have unleashed a marketing blitzkrieg centred mainly on the ‘safety’ plank to cash...