The 12th-annual Global Wellness Summit (GWS) will centre around Shaping the Business of Wellness.
The annual gathering of wellness industry leaders, which will this year take place at the Technogym Village in Cesena, Italy, will be focused around the current business landscape and future trends for the 10 segments that make up the global wellness economy.
There will be keynotes, panels and roundtables in which delegates will discuss beauty, healthy eating, wellness tourism, fitness/mind-body, preventive/personalised medicine, complementary/alternative medicine, wellness lifestyle real estate, the spa industry, the thermal/mineral springs market and workplace wellness.
Nancy Davis, executive director and chief creative officer at the GWS, says: “The Summit’s 2018 theme will keep us laser-focused on the emerging business opportunities across all wellness markets, for traditional industry segments but also on the ways that wellness is transforming massive industries like retail, fashion, design and architecture.”
The 2018 Global Wellness Economy Monitor report will also be released and analysed at the Summit, offering an updated picture of the size, scope, trends and five-year growth projections for the global wellness economy.
Susie Ellis, GWS chair and CEO, says: “The Global Wellness Economy Monitor has been a powerful force in growing the wellness industry – without respected data and trends insight, investment can’t take place. There is powerful demand for new numbers and analysis of this fast-growing, always changing industry.”
The event will be take place from October 6-8 2018. Antonio Citterio, the architect behind the design of Technogym Village, will be a keynote speaker. He’s co-founder of the multidisciplinary design practice Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, which works in architectural, interior and urban design and is renowned for his understated and enduring human-centric product design for brands like Hermès and Technogym.
Citterio says: “I am passionate about addressing the audience at the GWS and sharing my ideas about the future of design and how it will impact wellness. The Summit is the ideal conference to discuss why designing for health and wellness is of such importance.”
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