Photo: Mei Zhang, founder of WildChina
The future of tourism, hospitality and wellness travel will be hot topics at the 2019 Global Wellness Summit (GWS).
The 2019 theme has been announced as ‘Shaping the Business of Wellness: Asia’ and keynotes will include Miwako Date, president/CEO of Mori Trust – one of Japan’s real estate giants; Neil Jacobs, CEO at Six Senses Hotels Resorts and Mei Zhang, founder of WildChina, a sustainable travel company that provides a sophisticated view of Chinese nature and culture through authentic, high-end experiences.
The agenda will focus on emerging business and investment trends across all global wellness markets, putting a spotlight on Asia’s explosive wellness markets and the leaders driving growth and innovation in the region.
Susie Ellis, GWS chairman and CEO, says: “Every person in the wellness industry needs to grasp the enormous growth and change now underway across Asia, especially in China. Asia’s millennia-old wellness traditions have practically defined the world market, but a ‘new Asia’ will also transform everything from travel and technology and food and fashion to beauty and design. The future of wellness is a whole new chapter – a new cross-pollination – between East and West, ancient and modern.”
The Global Wellness Summit is an invitation-only international gathering that brings together industry leaders and visionaries to shape the business of wellness and the future of the $4.2 trillion global wellness economy. The 2019 event will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong from October 15-17.
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