The Best New Wellness Resorts

Thursday, February 05, 2026

The days of jam-packed vacations that make you feel more exhausted than just staying home are over. Now it's all about wellness, rejuvenation, and longevity. More and more, hotels are adopting mocktails, farm-to-table dining experiences, and spas that can not only make you feel your best, but even legitimately assess your overall health. (We're changing primary care providers. To a doctor in the Dolomites.) Garrett Munce has traveled the world exploring these wellness resorts so you know exactly where to go next and what the hell you're in for. Below, you can read about the 10 properties that have quite literally changed his life.

—Krista Jones, commerce director

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The 10 Best New Wellness Resorts

From European wellness clinics to professional training camps, these destinations are made to change your body and your mind.

If you've been to a hotel in the past year or so, you may have noticed something new. Nearly every hotel, from the casual roadside stop to the all-inclusive resort has all of a sudden started to focus on wellness. There are mocktail menus at complimentary happy hours, group yoga classes, locally sourced in-room snacks—the list goes on and on to varying degrees of what one might consider wellness. This is by design because, well, we all are obsessed with being well right now. Wellness, however you define it, has stopped being something just a few travelers want and become something nearly every traveler expects. Hotels are not dumb, either. They know that we, as travelers, are willing to pay big bucks for wellness. The global wellness market was valued at $893.9 billion in 2024, according to Statista, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

We spent the year traveling the globe to find the most exciting, most innovative, and most unique new wellness destinations around the world for this list. So whether you want to train better, sleep better, eat better or just feel better, these are the places worth booking for a visit.

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