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China’s New Wellness and Longevity Landscape
China may be one of the world’s most underestimated wellness destinations. These nine destinations reveal a wellness geography that remains surprisingly unfamiliar to international travellers.
China’s New Wellness and Longevity Landscape
China may be one of the world’s most underestimated wellness destinations. These nine destinations reveal a wellness geography that remains surprisingly unfamiliar to international travellers.
Why Wellbeing is Becoming the New Logic of Luxury: An Editor’s View
Ten years ago, status was read through objects. Today, it is increasingly measured in quality of life and access to environments that restore you. The logic of luxury is changing.
Meet the Gulf-Born Wellness Innovations Worth Knowing
From smart rings to three-minute mental resets and home hydroponic gardens, a new generation of Gulf-born products is turning everyday wellbeing into something more practical and distinctly local.
Lanserhof Sylt: Why Modern Longevity Starts with Your Gut
We spoke to Dr. Jan Stritzke, Medical Director of Europe’s leading longevity clinic – Lanserhof Sylt, on why the gut is at the centre of everything.
Longevity
The UAE’s Longevity Economy: What Dubai and Abu Dhabi Are Building
Longevity is becoming big business in the UAE. Clinics, hospitals, investors and wellness brands are converging around the same opportunity – and this piece looks at what is actually taking shape.
The Longevity Industry Has Money. What It Lacks Is Evidence
Billionaires can buy scans, supplements and experimental protocols. What they cannot yet buy is proof that any of them will materially extend a healthy human life.
Peptides in Dubai: What Is Approved, What Is Experimental and What It Costs
From GLP-1 medicines to BPC-157 and Epitalon, Dubai’s peptide market combines established treatments with experimental longevity protocols. We created a guide to help you make sense of it all.
The Gulf Wellness Brief: A New Map of Health, Travel and Longevity
The Gulf is drawing global attention in wellness and longevity. But what is actually happening in the market and where the investable opportunities are?
Wellbeing
First Look: AMAALA, Saudi Arabia’s New Wellness Destination
Saudi Arabia is bringing luxury hospitality, longevity medicine, diagnostics, performance and recovery together in one destination: AMAALA.
The Return of Touch: Why the Rarest Luxury Now Fits in Your Palm
Wellness has learned to measure everything. Yet the sense of touch has quietly faded from daily life. Scientists call it “touch hunger”, and some of the oldest rituals of the Gulf may offer a way back.
Bathhouses Are Becoming New Places for Connection
Across cultures, water rituals created spaces where people gathered, talked and spent time together. Today, this ancient ritual is returning in a new form.
Dior’s New Language of Wellness
With the recent opening of Dior Spa Splendido at Portofino, Dior is expanding its wellness universe and bringing its codes into the daily rituals of wellbeing.
People
The Age of Intention: Inside the New Logic of Longevity Medicine
Dr. Jaffer Khan, Founder and CEO of AEON Clinic at Atlantis The Royal, on what longevity medicine really means – and why most people still don’t understand it.
Inside the Deep Cube: Ilya Blokhin on the Architecture of Sleep
The CEO and Founder of wellness startup the Deep Cube, Ilya Blokhin, on deep sleep, magnetic fields, lucid dreaming, and the technology that is teaching us to rest again.
BioTwin Founder Louis-Philippe Noël on Bringing Digital Twins to the UAE
We talked to BioTwin founder about what it actually means to have a human digital twin – and why the Emirates are moving faster than anyone else.
Inside the Billionaire Race for Longevity
From Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman to Priscilla Chan and Brian Armstrong, tech’s richest figures are now building their own longevity projects, from cellular reprogramming to AI biology.
Living
UAE Wellness Residences Boom: What’s Actually Inside Them?
From Dubai's forest communities to Abu Dhabi's dedicated wellness islands, the UAE is building one of the world's most ambitious map of longevity residences. We looked inside them.
Beyond the Green Wall: Interiors Shaping Wellbeing in the Gulf
Biophilic design has long promised to reconnect people with nature. Today, the sharper question is whether wellness-driven residential interiors can support the body and the nervous system.
Kengo Kuma Brings Wedyan, a New Nature-Led Residence, to Dubai
Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the residences combine greenery, shaded terraces and wellness-focused amenities, reflecting a new understanding of luxury living in Dubai.
Saudi Arabia Is Building a 135-km Wellness Boulevard through Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s Sports Boulevard is becoming one of the world’s most ambitious examples of wellness real estate.
Travel
Anantara Golden Triangle: A House at the Height of the Fog
At the meeting point of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort turns the landscape into the central experience.
The Sicilian Odyssey – Into Homer’s Wine-Dark Sea
As Christopher Nolan returns Homer’s wandering king to the screen this July, Rocco Forte Hotels invites travellers to trace Odysseus through the real Sicily.
20 Best Longevity and Wellness Destinations Around the World
A longevity trip begins with a simple choice: to go somewhere where the days are shaped around feeling better and returning with a greater energy.
A Retreat in the Arabian Fjords: Oman’s New Members-Only Escape to Open in 2026
Discover Collection Ras Amud will bring a new kind of private hospitality to Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, shaped by membership, slow travel and one of the Gulf’s most secluded coastal landscapes.
Culture
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Is Ready to Redraw the Map of Global Art
After two decades of anticipation, Frank Gehry’s monumental museum will open on Saadiyat Island on 11 December 2026 – completing one of the world’s most ambitious cultural districts.
Seven Museums Changing What Culture Can Do to the Body
Wellbeing is often discussed through hotels, clinics and longevity centres. But cultural spaces may be just as central to the future of human restoration.
Human in the Loop – a new sound-and-string exhibition opens in Abu Dhabi
At 421 Arts Campus, the Emirati robotics engineer Dr Ahmad AlAttar turns the gallery into a field of sound and strings you have to play – his first institutional solo show, on until 13 September.
Abu Dhabi Gives Saadiyat a New House of the Arts
The emirate has commissioned Dar Al Funoon Abu Dhabi, a Frank Gehry-designed performing arts centre beside the Saadiyat Cultural District, to open in 2030.
