What’s in a word?
As an industry, we define ourselves by the term wellness, with events such as the Professional Spa & Wellness Convention and the Global Spa & Wellness Summit being testament to this fact. Are we, however, in fact associating ourselves with a word that has no substance or worse, painting ourselves as something we’re not?
In the past few years, wellness has gone mainstream. When I first stared out in the industry over 20 years ago, wellness was a fringe topic. Now it’s fully entrenched in the mainstream, with companies such as General Motors, Nestlé, Google and even Coca-Cola defining themselves as wellness brands. Should we as an industry be associating ourselves with these and similar corporations?
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