Health Update: Global Wellness Summit predicts its wellness trends for 2026 – What Experts Say

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has released its annual Future of Wellness report, predicting the trends that will lead the way in 2026.

The detailed forecast presents the shifts that the  GWS anticipates will transform the health, wellbeing and spa sectors in the coming year.

Predictions for 2026 include a backlash against over-optimisation, longevity expanding into homes, and women’s wellness taking centre stage.

The Future of Wellness report states: “2026 will be another year of shake-ups. A year of corrections and backlashes, a crucial year for women and one where longevity moves in new directions.

“There have been more shake-ups in the wellness market in the last couple of years than in the last 20. The market has been rewritten by high-tech, medical approaches but, at the same time, powerful new desires for a no-tech, deeply human, social wellness are raging.”

European Spa brings you a summary of the GWS’s ten biggest wellness trends for 2026.