WELLNESS TRAVEL

Katherine Droga is the founder of Australia’s first Wellness Tourism Industry Summit which will be held in Noosa, northern Queensland on March 19-20, 2020. Katherine worked for Tourism Australia for 10+ years and is currently Chair of the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI) Wellness Tourism Initiative. She is Advisor to the Transformational Travel Council and is passionate about the transformational effect travel can have on people and the planet. In this Q&A we asked Katherine to describe wellness and transformation travel, and how it can benefit us as individuals.

Katherine, can you firstly tell us how you would describe wellness?

Of course. Initially I would say wellness is different things to different people. Personally, and from a health perspective, I would see the medical approach as being more reactive, and the wellness approach as more proactive. The World Health Organisation define wellness as a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

OK, so then what is wellness travel?

I see wellness travel as being the type of travel people choose