Vacationing Your Way To Health

Wellness tourism offers exclusive packages for your wellbeing, giving you an alternative holiday option.

- Charishma Thankappan

As the tourism industry opens up and expands into ever divergent arenas, the growing trend in the business is the concept of wellness tourism. Travellers are now making informed choices about the way they want to spend their holidays. For those looking for an alternative to taking time off by eating, drinking, sight-seeing, indulging in adventurous activities or lazing by the beach; they can now choose to dedicate their time towards personal wellbeing. Wellness vacations are meant for holistic relaxation. These vacations help in the rejuvenation of physical, emotional and spiritual state of mind and aid to restore balance and harmony within.

Choosing wellness An increasing awareness of integrated wellbeing is driving a growing number of tourists toward spas, resorts, and the like that provide such wellness tourism packages. According to the Global Wellness Summit held in 2016, the market for wellness tourism is expected to reach US$680bn in 2017.