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Carillon Miami Beach: Where Beach Meets Bliss, Plus Special Savings
Escape for four nights, get a $400 resort credit.
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Shop Sales: Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals
Save your sanity and your dollars.
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6 Travel Essentials You’ll Want to Pack
Delayed or long flights are no problem: We’re currently craving these travel essentials to make our next trip a relaxed one!
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Take a Hike: Top Hiking Trails to Explore This Fall & Winter
The weather cools down, the workouts heat up!
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Vancouver Island: Beaches, Forests and Fresh North Pacific Cuisine
We reveal where to stay, spa, dine, and more in Vancouver Island.
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Museflower Life Festival: Wellness Event Shares Holistic Health Knowledge in Thailand’s North
On a tranquil lake in Chiang Rai’s lush woods, new eco-lodge Museflower Retreat & Spa is making its mark as a haven for holistic health and all things green with Museflower Life Festival.
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2015 Wellness Travel Awards: And the Winners Are…
The results are revealed!The Awards honor the hotels, resorts, destination spas, and retreats worldwide that offer the very best wellness travel, vacations, and experiences.
Living Well
Beyond the Stars
Some say it was an awestruck journalist, trying to convey the level of luxury offered by the newly opened Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai in 1998, who first described it as a “seven-star” property. No such designation exists (or ever did), as none of the rating systems used by various governments and hospitality associations worldwide offers rating higher than
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Wellness Traditions from the Islamic World
There is no more powerful consumer trend across the developed world than the hunger for all things authentic and indigenous, impacting what we now most want to eat (the latest global “superfoods” and ancient grains), to where we most want to travel (suddenly a far wider, exotic map). It’s why the spa/wellness scene is increasingly
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Spa On Arrival (& En Route)
It used to be that while traveling for business or pleasure, spa treatments were a luxurious add-on, something fitted in between a meeting and dinner, or perhaps an afternoon treat during a visit to a new city. Now, however, spa treatments and other wellness offerings are being prioritized both en route and on arrival – either to get a head start
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My Fitness. My Tribe. My Life.
As trend forecasting becomes trendier – rowing is the new spinning…hot Pilates is the new Bikram…party fitness is the new Zumba – fitness fads of the minute garner deserved attention from the media, wellness influencers and the physically active public. But these persistent hyper headlines warrant some big picture reflection before chasing the latest fads once again. The big story is that the fitness landscape
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Forest Bathing: Mindfulness Meets Nature
The term “forest bathing” has nothing to do with water, and is more than just a poetic way of describing a “walk in the woods,” something humans have, of course, been doing for five million years (if never less so than today). The Japanese government coined the term in 1982, a translation of “shinrin-yoku,” which literally means “taking in the forest