stays with me is one that I went to in Germany called Schloss Elmau, in the Bavarian mountains. It’s the kind of spa that is so enjoyable and they have the little women’s spa, children’s spa. They have five spas, an outdoor spa by the river and they have a concert hall. It’s truly an amazing place.
Sara: Where do you see the wellness industry in five years? Susie: I think what’s going to happen is that wellness becomes a shared responsibility. Every country is talking about health care costs, whether it’s paid for by the individual, the corporation or the government, somebody is paying and it is really unsustainable because the costs keep going up, and when that starts to happen, people realise that this is a big problem and not one person is going to be able to solve it. It’s not going to be the schools with their healthy lunches, it’s not going to be spas and gyms by themselves, it’s not going to be companies that do yoga classes at lunch and it’s not
going to be governments. It is a shared responsibility and so everyone is going to have to do their part.
Sara: Has there been, during all
moment or
of the summits, a favourite that ah-ha moment
when you finally knew that things were happening and that you were making a difference? Susie: I would say, there was one. Personally
for me, it was actually
when Jean-Claude Baumgarten and Peter Greenberg were doing a dialogue together in India. They started talking about wellness tourism and I realized within about three minutes they totally get it; people outside of our industry get it. People inside of our industry were not getting it quite so quickly. To me the whole summit was going to be about helping to move the needle a little bit so people would understand and this was the first day of the summit and I thought, they already get it, it’s over! The consumer outside is ready and responsive and now it’s just a
matter of time.
Sara: What is your favourite spa experience? Susie: The Moroccan or the Turkish Hammam because of that ritual. The steam, humidity, the scrubbing, you’re so clean and then the massage. As a treatment I would have to say that’s probably my favourite.
Sara: And how would you complete the sentence, if I could change one thing, it would be... Susie: If I could do one thing and wave magic wand, I would invent something that people could take to not be overweight. I think obesity is such a challenge for people to live with. It’s a cloud over their entire lives, so if there is some way that I could help people never get overweight that would be the magic wand that I would like to wave.
Interview by Sara Jones Edito
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