While the World Health Organization continues to sound the alarm about the rise of obesity, physical inactivity, loneliness, mental health issues, and lack of sleep, professionals in hospitality, tourism, fitness, spa, and beauty have joined forces to raise awareness about healthy lifestyles and promote #WellnessForAll. Wellness For All includes staff, local residents, and underserved communities—not just clients and members. 9,688 venues signed up on wellmap.org in 155 countries to celebrate the eighth edition of World Wellness Weekend, from sunrise in Fiji on Friday the 20th until sunset in Maui on Sunday the 22nd.
This is an increase of 54% from 2023 (6,300 venues), with over one thousand new sign-ups in the last four weeks leading up to the event. All venues joined via wellmap.org in 18 languages, allowing them to appear on a map with a geolocator and showcase their activities and contact details, encouraging locals and visitors to join fun, free, and inclusive activities with friends, families, and colleagues.
Facts and Statistics, 2024
● 10 most active countries: Spain, Italy, Brazil, Japan, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Argentina, India, and Mexico
● 10 most active cities: Marbella (most venues) and Santo Domingo (most activities), Sao Paulo, Rome, Malaga, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Ho Chi Minh City, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Punta Cana, and Phnom Penh.
● 5 most active categories: Vitality (fitness clubs and yoga studios), beauty (spas, beauty institutes, and salons), Hotels (hotels and resorts), holistic (wellness centres and holistic clinics), Longevity (wellness practitioners, physiotherapists, kinesiologists, acupuncturists, and chiropractors)
● 100 online wellness sessions by specialists and venues were available on World Wellness WebTV
Record-breaking edition
● 54% more venues on wellmap.org (9,700 in 2024 vs 6,300 in 2023), with 1,000 new venues signing up in the last four weeks
● 34 million estimated views (+100% vs 2023) with 700 mentions (TV, radio, print, online) and 10,000 posts on social media (total audience of these media publications: 3.5 billion viewers vs 430 million in 2023)
● First ever four-day celebration with Tomoko Kozuma, WWW City Ambassador in Karatsu (Japan), who organized Yoga Fest on Monday, September 23rd, with the support of the Town Hall
● First ever World Wellness Wedding (WWW) with Liliana Ferreira, Country Ambassador in Portugal, exchanging vows during WWW
● First-ever participation of two iconic circus companies: Phare Ponleu Selpak Battambang—The Historical Cambodian Circus and Phare, The Cambodian Circus Siem Reap
