Update on Our Top 10 Global Consumer Trends for 2017: Wellness as Status Symbol

Today’s global cultural reverence for wellness has more consumers regarding it as a status symbol

The significance of material things as indicators of achievement has paled. For a growing segment of individuals with a higher discretionary income, wellness has become an important part of the luxury lifestyle, and the experience of choice in a broad consumption shift seeing consumers pursue experiences over products.

There are a growing number of opportunities for the wellness-aware to flaunt and compare their dedication to their wellbeing

There is a richer menu of more esoteric wellness options and the tentacles of wellness angles reaching many industries – tourism, eating out, apparel, health, fitness and relaxation and beauty.