Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends

Although USA Today recently publicized that Medical Tourism was one of the top trends for 2010, we’ve had our eye on this tourism trends for sometime. Back in 2007, we noted that ‘wellness and looking good continue were moving up in consumers financial priorities.’ Lifestyle trends such as this fueled the spa and medical tourism boom in 2007. We saw the advent of medical real estate, where master-planned communities such as Cooper Life at Craig Ranch in Texas, were built around wellness and medicine. Monthly fees provide luxuries and services, including annual physical examinations and doctor house calls.