Wellness expert Anni Hood to lead initiative to drive awareness of $494 billion wellness tourism industry globally
New York, NY – January 21, 2015 – The Global Wellness
Institute (GWI), an international think-tank that develops research and
resources to positively impact the global wellness industry, announced today
plans to deliver its Global Wellness Tourism Congress (GWTC) in multiple cities
during the 2015 calendar year.
The global initiative, headed by
international wellness expert Anni Hood, will highlight the opportunity the $494
billion wellness tourism industry offers individual countries and regions. GWI
plans to introduce the one-day congresses to four new countries in 2015, in
addition to the annual GWTC event held in conjunction with the Global Wellness
Summit in Mexico City this November.
Sponsoring countries will gain invaluable insight into
cutting-edge research and quantified data on wellness tourism in their region
and will be able to showcase the authenticity and indigenous wellness
experiences of their country to a broader market. The congresses will focus on
education and infrastructure to support the ongoing establishment of wellness
tourism and will initiate collaboration between public and private sectors to
develop cohesive wellness tourism goals.
“Anni brings over fifteen years
of global wellness expertise to GWTC and has been leading the GWI’s wellness
tourism initiatives since the first GWTC event took place during the Global
Wellness Summit in New Delhi, India,” said Susie Ellis, Chairman and CEO of the
GWI. “We are thrilled to announce Anni’s expanding role in bringing the wellness
tourism message to a broader audience.”
With Hood’s help, the GWI is
focused on actively raising the awareness of wellness tourism within governments
and their relevant ministries. According to recent GWI research[1], wellness
tourism grew almost twice as fast as global tourism overall in the last year.
One of the Institute’s initiatives in 2015 is to prompt the conversation about
the need for governments to put Ministers of Wellness in place to advance the
wellbeing of our global population. It’s a topic that will be on the agenda at
the Global Wellness Summit in Mexico City November 13-15, 2015 and Ellis
recently co-authored an article with Renee Moorefield, CEO of Wisdom Works,
“2015: The Year of the Ministry of Wellness” that appeared on the Huffington
Post.
In addition to her work with the GWI, Hood is founder and CEO of
Anni Hood Wellness Business Consultancy, which provides wellness integration
services to both public and private sector businesses, and K.I.S Lifestyle
wellness solutions, a community offering affordable and accessible health
resolution.
About the Global Wellness
Institute
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) is an
international think-tank that brings together leaders and visionaries from
private and public sectors to positively impact and shape the future of the
wellness industry. The GWI is the umbrella organization of the Global Wellness
Summit (GWS) and the Global Wellness Tourism Congress (GWTC). The GWI is
considered the leading global research and educational resource for the $3.4
trillion wellness industry.WellnessEvidence.com, the world’s first online portal
to the medical evidence for common wellness approaches, is also a GWI
initiative.
