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Capital market activity within the health and wellness market has expanded by 633% from 2021 Q1 to 2022 Q1. Latitude Fidelity health and wellness services includes all activities that promote physical and mental wellbeing, from yoga to healthy eating, personal care and beauty, nutrition and weight loss, meditation, spa retreats, workplace wellness, and wellness tourism. The market has experienced rapid growth since the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, highlighting the importance of mental, spiritual, and physical well-being.
Wellness vacations account for 17% of total tourism spending. Increasingly travelers are visiting the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, to get in shape and return home calm and collected. The wellness tourism market is worth $639 billion and growing at a 7% annual rate from 2015 to 2017. Wellness travel is expanding twice as fast as the total tourism growth rate of 3%.
Given these considerations, our health and wellness industry appear to be the most promising investment opportunity throughout the forecasted period.