Looking to discover a renewed sense of wellbeing or to escape for a weekend of top-to-toe pampering! You can reset and recharge with AvaniWell’s new signature wellness retreat packages. Available exclusively at Avani+ Hua Hin Resort, multi-day Reset and Recharge programmes combine accommodations, healthful meals and curated activities ranging from physical to aesthetic and meditative, ensuring a holistic wellness journey. The two-night Reset Retreat is the perfect weekend escape, offering a supervised system reboot in a serene environment. For those looking to deepen their commitment to wellbeing, the four-night Recharge Retreat provides a more comprehensive experience, ideal for planning out a personalised wellness roadmap and achieving long-term health goals. Both packag...
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Cutting-edge urban wellness with transformative experiences and preventative treatments
2025 marks the opening of Anantara Wellness, a cutting-edge integrative wellness destination designed to enhance overall well-being through transformative experiences and preventative treatments. Located at Anantara Riverside Bangkok Resort in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand, Anantara Wellness stands out by offering guests the chance to blend wellness with business or leisure in an urban environment. Anantara Wellness represents a modern reinvention of the traditional spa experience, elevating wellness beyond mere pampering and relaxation. The focus is on comprehensive health and wellness programs that emphasise preventative treatments with profound results. By blending innovative technologies with the age-old wisdom of Thai and Chinese healing traditions, guests can enjoy a vast array ...
Read MoreLayan Life by Anantara opens in Phuket Layan Life by Anantara, a new world-class retreat aimed at transforming the wellness experience has opened at the family friendly beachside paradise of Anantara Layan Phuket Resort. Combining cutting-edge technology and ancient Thai healing traditions and drawing on more than two decades of pioneering wellness expertise from Anantara Hotels & Resorts, Layan Life offers bespoke three-to-10-day programmes using the ‘Whole of Life’ approach to wellness that celebrates key life stages. Set within a biophilic designed space of 1,767sqm and surrounded by tropical gardens, sandy beaches, and the calming Andaman Sea, guests are invited to embark on an empowered wellness journey where the innate healing power of nature plays an integral role. ...
Read MoreAnantara Convento di Amalfi Grand Hotel showcases a series of immersive wellness experiences Anantara Spa is world-renowned for its unique wellness offerings, drawing from the healing traditions of the desirable destinations in which Anantara hotels and resorts are located. With its new menu in Amalfi, Anantara Spa combines the serenity of convent life with locally inspired ingredients to create uniquely blissful experiences. In honour of World Wellness Weekend over 21-22nd September, guests seeking to restore balance and harmony during their visit to the Amalfi Coast can indulge in the ‘Retreat of Natural Energy’ wellness package at Anantara Spa. Beginning with an hour long Hammam Ritual for physiological wellbeing and a 90-minute blissful balance body massage ending with a reg...
Read MoreIndustry experts join forces to revolutionize travel & hospitality with new standard Wellness in Travel & Tourism (WITT), an independent organization composed of experts with over 125 years of combined experience at the intersection of hospitality, wellness, and travel, has announced the launch of the industry's first wellness certification for hotels and resorts. This groundbreaking initiative aims to transform the hospitality sector by providing prestigious certification criteria that sets properties apart in a competitive market, enabling them to enhance their wellness offerings and attract travelers. "The WITT Certified seal provides hotels and resorts with a significant advantage in attracting travelers by offering objective and rigorous audits of their wellness ame...
Read MoreThe KANHA and The Beach Samui partnership transforms the landscape of wellness tourism by combining luxury hospitality and innovative cannabis therapies on Thailand's famed Koh Samui island In a groundbreaking development for wellness tourism, KANHA and The Beach Samui have announced their partnership further cementing The Beach Samui's status as Asia's first licensed hotel offering cannabis-integrated therapies. This collaboration introduces a new suite of exclusive cannabis-enhanced treatments, designed to elevate the guest experience and set a new standard for luxury wellness tourism on Thailand's iconic Koh Samui. With Thailand's wellness economy nearing $35 billion in 2022 and projected to grow by 9.9% annually, this collaboration between KANHA and The Bea...
Read MoreWellness enthusiasts can look towards these seven hotspots to visit for a relaxing wellness retreat including Iceland and Portugal. Travel experts at StressFreeCarRental.com have shared the best destinations for rejuvenation and self discovery. Wellness tourism is believed to be worth £505 billion (€592) across the globe annually with more and more people looking to embark on a wellness related journey. Social media has also had a part to play in the growth of the sector with #wellnessretreat and #spiritualretreat having a combined viewing of over 33 million on TikTok and over 500,000 posts on Instagram. Whilst there are many countries across the world that offer wellness retreats, many of them will specialise in something different. Those looking to em...
Read MoreAvani Hotels & Resorts, the upscale lifestyle brand of Minor Hotels, has launched AvaniWell, the brand’s first wellbeing clinic at Avani+ Hua Hin Resort in Thailand. Beyond the usual spa offering, guests are invited to discover what wellbeing means to them with guidance from AvaniWell’s team of experts. From Traditional Thai Medicine and physiotherapy to Reformer Pilates and healthy dining, AvaniWell provides wellness “à la carte”, designed to kick-start healthy habits through weekend resets, serene staycations and weekly wellbeing programmes. Traditional Meets Modern AvaniWell offers a personalised path to wellbeing through a choice of traditional and modern practices. Guests are invited to discover Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM), an ancient system ...
Read MoreWhen it opens in September, the Wafaifo Resort in heritage city of Hoi An will offer epigenetic testing, hyperbaric chambers, sleep technology and infrared saunas as part of its comprehensive wellness offering for tourists The new Wafaifo Resort Hoi An in Vietnam, which opens 1 September, has announced an ambitious three-stage health and spa rollout that will greatly enhance wellness, spa and medical options for tourists visiting Vietnam. The latest health technology and international partnerships will give visitors to Hoi An and the greater Danang area access to a range of wellness and spa services not found elsewhere in the whole central region of the country. Epigenetic testing From 1 September, guests at the new 134-room and suite lifestyle resort can use the Wellness ...
Read MoreAt home in the New York City suburbs, Oscar Sandoval has lots of friends and an active social life. But when it’s time for vacation, he prefers to keep it quiet. Like, literally. Sandoval began practicing Zen Buddhism a few years back, and has been on silent retreats to Buddhist monasteries around San Francisco and elsewhere. He’d stroll, sit, do some gardening and generally contemplate life for a week. More recently, he’s done solo backpacking trips across Spain. “The internal experience varies from times of very little thinking to periods of many thoughts or songs playing in my head,” he says. “The utter peace and stillness is impossible to put into words.” This photo provided by Black Tomato shows an Icelandic Glacier on a hiking trek. (Black Tomato via AP) Travel journalis...
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