World Economic Forum news

Dan Buettner – who identified the five places in the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives and founded Blue Zone wellness communities – ... More

Physically active people are 50 per cent more likely to develop higher levels of antibodies after receiving a vaccine, when compared to those who are ... More

Fitness is the world's most popular physical activity and more than 50 per cent of people would like to spend more time exercising. The figures ... More

A coalition of global organisations and business leaders from BP, BHP, Clifford Chance, Deloitte, HSBC, Salesforce, Unilever and WPP have launched an international initiative to ... More

The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has named mental wellness as a new US$121bn (€101.6bn, £91.8bn) segment of the global wellness economy, based on consumer spending ... More

The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has announced the appointment of John Kao, MD, best-selling author on innovation and enterprise transformation, to its advisory board. As ... More

The Natural History Museum (NHM) has announced a new strategy outlining the role it will play in tackling the devastating impact of climate change, after ... More

A new Global Wellness Institute Initiative has been launched to focus on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular, SDG #3, ... More

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has announced a new topic for the event: how purpose needs to be at the very heart of corporate culture ... More

The First Wellness and Spa Conference in Costa Rica will take place from 31 August to 2 September at the Convention Center Rafael Arenas in ... More

Joshua Luckow, former executive director of US destination spa Canyon Ranch, has launched SolaVieve, a company which will design, develop and operate holistic, immersive wellness ... More

Susie Ellis, chair and CEO of the Global Wellness Summit and Global Wellness Institute, will be honoured this month by the Metropolitan New York Chapter ... More

The Global Wellness Summit is bringing an all-star lineup of integrative medicine leaders to its 2017 conference in Palm Beach, Florida, where this year’s theme ... More

Spain has been ranked top of a global tourism study measuring sustainable development of the travel and tourism sector, with the country identified as having ... More

Social psychologist Amy Cuddy has been confirmed as the opening keynote speaker for the 2017 ISPA Conference & Expo at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino ... More

Four European economists will be keynote presenters at the Global Wellness Summit taking place from October 17-19 in Kitzbühel, Austria. David Bosshart, CEO of the ... More

Nerio Alessandri, president and founder of equipment giant Technogym, will address global leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, today (20 January) ... More

The UK has the fifth most competitive tourism market in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s travel report. The report looks at 141 ... More

Magatte Wade, a prominent Senegalese entrepreneur and founder of Tiossan – a high-end skincare line using indigenous Senegalese recipes – has been appointed to the ... More

The Global Spa & Wellness Summit (GSWS) has announced the final daily programme for its eighth annual conference between 10-12 September, where delegates from more ... More

The tourism industry has welcomed chancellor George Osborne’s announcement in yesterday’s budget that the government would reform Air Passenger Duty (APD), an amendment it says ... More

The economic case for investing in health as a means to achieving long-term growth took centre stage on the last day of the World Economic ... More

Richard Solomons, chief executive of of InterContinental Hotels Group has said that fast-growing internet companies should be subject to the same regulations as regular firms. ... More

A record 275 delegates from 35-plus countries gathered for the fifth annual Global Spa Summit (GSS), held in Bali, Indonesia on 15-18 May, making the ... More

David Miliband, former foreign secretary and MP for South Shields, has been appointed as Sunderland AFC's new non-executive vice chair. Miliband's arrival at the Premier ... More