The 7th World Wellness Weekend will be held in more than 150 countries
29-08-23
The event will involve around 8000 destinations around the world
From 15 to 17 September, the 7th World Wellness Weekend will take place, a global celebration full of free, fun and friendly activities that aim to bring the general public closer to the concepts and exercise! of wellness in all its dimensions.
Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2023, the third is "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all". To support this goal, the World Wellness Weekend (WWW) was born in 2017; and since then, it encourages municipal authorities, tourism offices, associations and companies to organise free, fun and creative wellness activities that promote the 5 pillars of wellness: sleep and creativity, nutrition and immunity, movement and vitality, mindfulness and serenity, sense of purpose and solidarity.
This year, from 15 to 17 September, around 8000 venues and professionals from 150 countries around the world will make it possible (thanks also to the support of two ministries of health, three ministries of tourism, 30 municipalities, 60 international federations and 190 volunteers around the world).
In addition, every year, according to Lucía Romero de Ávila Nieto, WWW's national ambassador in Spain, the WWW Awards are held, which reward both outstanding countries for the number of participants (last year Brazil won) and entire cities for the number of activities they organise, an award which, last year, was won by the city of Marbella.
Spain is in first position, and its activities revolve around two focuses: "that wellness (physical, emotional, etc.) forms part of the activities in schools; and the development of wellness tourism, that is, helping hotels to develop wellness activities that break with seasonality and seasonality". Romero and his team hope that this event will help to develop "another type of holiday", different, healthier, that teaches us other ways of feeling good.
Lucía Romero de Ávila
Activities in Spain
Lucía Romero de Ávila and her team in Spain (Juan Manuel Abucha, Leonor Tocino, Rosa Trinidad Sánchez, Natalia Bonín and María Elisa Jiménez), coordinated by Sandra Villarejo and Susana Rodríguez, have so far managed to organise more than 1400 activities in Spain in more than 600 different spaces, from hotels and resorts to parks or public schools (here you can see all the activities that will be held).
Most of these activities are located, once again this year, in the city of Marbella, where there are more than 600 registered for the moment (companies and professionals who want to participate are still in time to sign up: the call is open until 10 September). There will be, for example, initiatives of postural correction in schools (to correct back problems in children due to the use of screens and backpacks), a classroom training in "Yoga of laughter" in the Palacio de Congresos de Marbella (for which they have up to 500 teachers), workshops on ecological leadership for managers of hotels and resorts, or a programme of 6 activities of emotional wellbeing in primary schools, among many other activities.
The city of Benalmádena will also celebrate its "wellness festival"; and both Jerez de la Frontera and Tenerife, winners in 2022 as the most active city and island in the WWW Awards, will present their own agendas.
The Mayan Luxury Spa and Mayan Secret Spa will kick off the public with a Temazcal experience, followed by 15-minute massages, and a raffle on Instagram of two of their iconic 50-minute massages: Jak'óol and Chuun'nak, based on traditional Mayan energy-circulation healing techniques.
In the rest of the world
Some outstanding activities around the world and interesting initiatives of partner companies:
Fiemme Valley (Italy), will participate for the third consecutive year as a "wellness valley", organising a full 3-day weekend in the Dolomites (protected by UNESCO), a "Forest of Violins", the Dolomites Wellness Summit and the Namastè Festival.
The Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion hotel (in Vietnam) will invite 200-300 children from the local community to a wellness weekend, with environmental education sessions, tree planting, fitness, yoga, meditation, but also lots of fun, with swimming, hot springs and a 600m zip line. Also in Vietnam, Oxalis Adventure will organise a yoga session inside Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave.
Nutrition Beyond Borders will organise awareness-raising workshops on malnutrition in Benin, Burkina Faso, Canada, the Dominican Republic and the Congo. Families will assess their children's nutritional status and receive sound advice from professionals.
More than 70 spas in selected hotels Taj, SeleQtions and Vivanta will organise a "wellness extravaganza" with more than 200 activities covering the 5 pillars of wellness. 27 hotels in Portugal from the Satsanga chain will organise fun wellness activities and encourage participants to bring food donations for a local charity. 29 Anantara hotels and 7 Avani hotels will participate in Oman, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, USA, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Maldives, Zambia and others.
Author: Álex Izquierdo. Aesthetics Experts
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