Comments on: Q&A with Spa Industry Icon Sue Harmsworth: Why “Wellness” Needs New Definitions https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/ Tue, 20 May 2025 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard R Martin https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/#comment-10423 Thu, 20 May 2021 00:30:57 +0000 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/02/17/qa-melisse-gelula-copy/#comment-10423 Holistic skincare and body treatment will be the way forward for spa global. The Caribbean will be the focus on wellness tourism and it natural products. Client will require my personalize experience and construction of buildings will have take a wellness approach. Wellness is the key to reduce a country health problem which is caused my stress factors of the society.
I am looking forward for wellness practitioner to get the respect and the international recognition they deserve.

]]> By: Alexander Franco https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/#comment-10415 Sat, 15 May 2021 18:55:18 +0000 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/02/17/qa-melisse-gelula-copy/#comment-10415 What an interesting interview, I totally agree, additionally these trends to impact more on lifestyles, prevention and differential approaches to health care will lead directly and indirectly to a more sustainable health system that allows to distribute in a more efficient way its resources.
The future is to prevent and reverse diseases by treating the real causes of the disease, that is, their lifestyles and better if this empowerment is carried out in a place that combines what is necessary to have a great experience in a great destination.

]]> By: Ferdinand Esser https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/#comment-10414 Sat, 15 May 2021 16:16:24 +0000 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/02/17/qa-melisse-gelula-copy/#comment-10414 What a great interview! Your direct, well-researched questions, Beth, enable Sue to get to the heart of the matter: Integrative Spas are ready to flourish! provided the physical & functional design complements physiological and environmental requirements for well-being, has a holistically profitable & sustainable fiscal model, and aligns with the needs of the culture/community/demographic.
Sue, I love your effective use of fundamental terms such as “light” vs “serious” wellness, your recognition of requisite training for Spa Operators & Practitioners in the “Health-Enhancement model”, of guiding consumers in discerning between complementing their health & treating the disease, and of providing a “pre- & post-status” health-assessment model! Since our world operates in a mostly disease & fear-based model of “healthcare’, here is an opportunity; a need, to transition our healthcare science philosophy to a passion of well-being, looking to health as the “theme”, and living in the gratitude for life.
True, there is a problem with “semantics” which has lead to practical misrepresentations; Spa: Salus Per Aquam, Wellness, Natural, etc. However, there’s also an opportunity to use or brand specific terms with clear definitions: Functional Medicine, Vitalistic Healthcare, Health Enhancement, Homeostasis, etc.
Yes, let’s use the healthy sports & fitness boom, and heightened use of Yoga & Ayurvedic, along with the high tech physiological health assessments & wearable fitness gear, to educate & train people into knowing & caring for, supporting the innate function of the amazing body.
However, the most powerful contribution I read in this interview is the pinnacle of your vision; seeing more of an “entire lifestyle of well-being …that combine(s) the comprehensive wellness with fun and the social piece”.

My contribution here: Ferdinand “Fenn” Esser is a licensed holistic healthcare practitioner for 35 years, a University Professor & Program Director in Health Sciences, and a Lecturer on Human Clinical Anatomy & Physiological Homeostasis.
I see the future boom of health enhancement in the emergent healthcare model that positions the need for Allopathic medicine, and Vitalistic healthcare, with the heart & caring of our common, collective humanity.
I call this “The Unified Theory of Health & disease”. ~ Fenn

]]> By: Lara Morgan https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/#comment-10412 Sat, 15 May 2021 07:39:27 +0000 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/02/17/qa-melisse-gelula-copy/#comment-10412 As always, showing her world class experience and expertise Sue’s down to earth, common sense, peopel behavioural centric advice shines through. About time hospitality invested in joined up whole service wellness – it’s not about a bed stay . Guest have much greater expectations as precious time-out wll mean more.

]]> By: Nav Kumari https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/#comment-10409 Fri, 14 May 2021 01:49:55 +0000 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/02/17/qa-melisse-gelula-copy/#comment-10409 Thank you Sue, this is truly insightful and after years of working in Marketing and Branding (in agencies servicing many different global brands and industries) I am now making a conscious decision to divert my skills to the “wellness” sectors and your vision has certainly helped guide the way I wish to approach this.

Thank you !!!

]]> By: abdulrazak mohamed https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/05/10/qa-sue-harmsworth/#comment-10408 Thu, 13 May 2021 13:59:30 +0000 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-wellness-institute-blog/2021/02/17/qa-melisse-gelula-copy/#comment-10408 Fantasitc planning and design the vedio is really a fest for eyes and mind. Healthy Wellness for Wealthy

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