Wellness Tourism Awards — Celebrating Health, Healing & Transformative Travel
Recognising the wellness resorts, destination spas, retreats, medical tourism providers, and wellness travel programmes that are delivering genuine transformation for health-focused global travellers.
The Wellness Retreat Award That Sets the Global Standard for Transformative Travel
The International Travel Awards Wellness Tourism Awards programme is the world's most authoritative recognition platform for the global health and wellness tourism sector. With the global wellness economy valued at over $5.6 trillion and wellness tourism representing one of its fastest-growing components, the industry has never been more complex, competitive, or consequential for the health and wellbeing of the millions of travellers who seek genuine transformation through purposeful travel.
Our Wellness Tourism Awards programme recognises the operators, properties, programmes, and destinations that deliver on the wellness travel promise with integrity and measurable impact. The best wellness travel award 2026 is not determined by the luxuriousness of facilities alone, but by the depth of the wellness philosophy, the qualifications of the practitioners, the personalisation of the guest journey, and the genuine, verifiable health and wellbeing outcomes that guests experience and carry home with them after their stay.
Wellness Tourism Awards — Six Categories of Health & Wellbeing Excellence
From luxury wellness resorts and world-class destination spas to yoga retreats, medical tourism, and specialised wellness travel programmes, our awards cover the full spectrum of transformative health travel.
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Best Wellness Resort
Recognising the full-service wellness resort whose complete accommodation, culinary, activity, and treatment offering is designed from the ground up to advance guest health and wellbeing — a property where every element of the environment and programming has been purposefully optimised for physical, mental, and spiritual restoration.
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Best Destination Spa
Celebrating the destination spa that draws international visitors specifically for the exceptional quality, breadth, and therapeutic depth of its spa experience — distinguished by extraordinary therapist expertise, a compelling treatment philosophy that integrates traditional healing wisdom with contemporary wellness science, and a sense of place that amplifies the healing environment.
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Best Wellness Retreat
Honouring the specialist retreat that offers a structured, immersive wellness programme — whether a detox retreat, sleep optimisation programme, burnout recovery retreat, or integrative health immersion — where guests follow a defined wellness curriculum designed to produce measurable, lasting wellbeing improvements beyond the retreat period.
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Best Medical Tourism Provider
Recognising the hospital, specialist clinic, longevity centre, or health tourism facilitator delivering outstanding international patient experiences — combining world-class medical or preventative health standards, seamless international patient services, transparent outcomes data, and a genuine standard of holistic care that distinguishes the best medical tourism destinations globally.
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Best Yoga & Meditation Retreat
Celebrating the specialist retreat centre offering the most authentic, deeply practised, and transformatively effective yoga, meditation, mindfulness, or contemplative practice programme — where qualified teachers within a recognised tradition guide participants through experiences of genuine depth that participants consistently describe as life-changing.
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Best Wellness Travel Programme
Recognising the tour operator, wellness company, or travel agency that has created the most outstanding multi-destination or themed wellness travel programme — a structured, expertly curated wellness journey combining premium accommodation, specialist wellness activities, nutritional programming, and meaningful destination experiences into a cohesive and transformative travel product.
Nominate NowWhy Wellness Tourism Award Recognition Matters for Your Brand
Official Trophy & Award Certification
Winners receive a custom International Travel Awards trophy for prominent display at your wellness property and an official certificate of recognition that provides internationally credible third-party validation of your wellness programme's quality and impact.
Winner's Wellness Credential Seal
The "International Travel Awards Wellness Tourism Winner 2026" digital seal for your website, marketing materials, and partner collateral — an independent wellness credential that meaningfully influences health-conscious travellers when choosing between competing wellness properties.
Wellness & Lifestyle Media Coverage
Award recognition generates coverage in wellness lifestyle media, health and fitness publications, luxury travel press, and women's lifestyle titles — reaching the wellness-conscious, affluent female demographic that represents the primary wellness tourism audience globally.
Gala Ceremony — Dubai, 14 November 2026
Collect your Wellness Tourism Award at the International Travel Awards Gala at the Westin Marina Hotel, Dubai on 14 November 2026 — joining 500+ global travel industry leaders from across the full hospitality and wellness spectrum.
Luxury Travel Agent & Concierge Network Access
Wellness award recognition strengthens your property's positioning with luxury travel agents and concierge services whose high-net-worth clients specifically request award-validated wellness experiences when planning their health-focused travel itineraries.
Global Health Tourism Marketplace Presence
Winners are featured on the International Travel Awards website, generating ongoing visibility among health-conscious travellers actively researching wellness resorts, retreats, and spa destinations for future bookings.
Wellness Tourism Awards Nomination & Judging Process
Submit Nomination
Submit your nomination with detailed information about your wellness offering — practitioner qualifications, programme structure, facility standards, wellness philosophy, guest outcome data, nutrition programme details, and any wellness accreditations or professional memberships held.
Expert Evaluation
Our wellness judging panel — comprising spa and wellness consultants, integrative health practitioners, wellness travel journalists, and experienced wellness retreat guests from around the world — evaluates each nomination on programme depth, practitioner quality, facility standards, and measurable guest outcomes.
Shortlist Announcement
Shortlists are published globally, providing all finalists with significant visibility among the wellness travel trade, lifestyle media, and health-conscious consumers who use award recognition as a key indicator of wellness property quality.
Gala Ceremony, Dubai
Winners are announced at the International Travel Awards Gala Ceremony on 14 November 2026 at the Westin Marina Hotel, Dubai — celebrating the global leaders of transformative wellness travel.
Wellness Tourism Awards — Your Questions Answered
Nominate Your Wellness Property for the International Wellness Tourism Award 2026
If your wellness resort, destination spa, retreat, or medical tourism programme is delivering genuine transformation for international wellness travellers, submit your nomination for the International Travel Awards Wellness Tourism Awards 2026 today.