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by Mary Tjotjos

2023 NYC Experience Wellness & Travel Media Event Agenda


OVERVIEW

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Media Arrival & Check-In

                       10:00 AM | Event Opens

EVENT OVERVIEW

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Experience Room/Show Floor

EDUCATION ROOM

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Wellness Around the Globe Symposium & Panel Sessions

               1:30 - 4:00 PM | Wellness Around the Globe Symposium & Panel Sessions

PRESS ROOM

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Press Conferences & Meetings with Sponsors

ORGANIC GOURMET LUNCHEON

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM 

WELLNESS AFTER PARTY

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Terrace 


Agenda

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Trends in Wellness & Regenerative Travel
Essentialism - What is it? Traveling solo - the new paradigm. The latest in community tourism. New wellness initiatives rolling out in hospitality. How are we traveling now, and how will it keep us well?

Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM | CBD & Spa
CBD is everywhere, and it's also all over spa. This panel will help us to decode the benefits - pain relief? stress reduction? mental balance? - tell us what to look for, and discuss future applications.

Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM | Fitness Recovery & Tech Tools
Top trends in the fitness tech world and how recovery - i.e. sauna, light therapy, handhelds, new yoga trends, supplements, plant proteins, etc. - can be critical to wellness. 
Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

11:40 AM - 11:50 AM | Face Fitness Coaching 
sponsored by Bellantz 

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM | Clean Beauty & Self Care Rituals, Programs, & Practices
Touchless treatments, mission-driven brands, "skinimalism" & makeup-free minimalism, consumer psychological shifts, healthy ingredients, plastic-free packaging trends, and more.
Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Pause & Reset: Beating Back Burnout
Psychologists on staff at the spa, new meditation and mindfulness practices, innovative wellness retreats, and programs and practices geared toward relieving stress and anxiety.
Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM | Special Wellness Experience
Sponsored by Kamalaya Koh Samui

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM | Beauty Out of The Box
Clean beauty is ever-evolving and now, more than ever, women are embracing a holistic, 360-degrees of what modern beauty is and how to get it. We'll talk about ingredients, practices, gadgets, ingestible, and modalities that are a bit outside of the traditional beauty box.
Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

2:50 PM - 3:20 PM | New Wellness Journeys
Consumers are booking longer spa treatments and wellness journeys - "trip stacking" is becoming popular. Hotels are accommodating daycations, staycations, vacations. How is our ramped up journey to wellness changing the face of travel?
Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Nutrition: Food, Mood, and the Gut-Brain Connection
Food fuels emotional health and what we eat affects how we feel, according to the growing field of nutritional psychology. How to calm stress, reduce inflammation, and keep the gut microbiome healthy. 

Education Room – Wellness Around the Globe Symposium