HTWWLife Team are known for their disruptive, yet informative, inspirational as well as entertaining talks and presentations. The Team have offered talks about wellbeing, product development and conceptualization, experience engineering and development, health destination management, marketing and competitiveness in health tourism and performance benchmarking in 40+ countries of the world.
The Team capitalize on the members’ academic and research background in creating analytical and visionary talks about how lifestyles and wellbeing are being influenced by social, environmental or political factors.
László is known for his disruptive, yet informative, inspirational as well as entertaining talks and presentations. He often talks about experience engineering and development, health destination management, marketing and competiveness in health tourism and performance benchmarking.
Melanie uses her academic and research background to create analytical and visionary talks about how lifestyles and wellbeing are being influenced by social, environmental or political factors. She focuses on holistic concepts of wellness and applies a cross-cultural dimension to her work.
Events and talks in 2024:
- 17-19 April: Global Healthcare for All / 6th Global Healthcare Travel Forum 2024 (North Cyprus)
- 20-22 March: Mountainlikers / 12th World Congress on Snow, Mountain and Wellness Tourism (Andorra, video)
- 5-7 March: Medical & Health Tourism Segment / ITB 2024 (Berlin, Germany)
- 5-7 March: LGBTQ+ Tourism Segment / ITB 2024 (Berlin, Germany)
- 4-6 February: Thermalia / BIT 2024 (Milano, Italy)
Events and talks in 2023:
- 30 Novermber: EHTTA Members Meeting (Budapest, Hungary)
- 22 November: Wellness Hospitality Conference (Milano, Italy)
- 10-12 October: 6th BalkanSpa Summit (Belgrade, Serbia)
- 5 October: Termatalia 2023 (Salto, Uruguay)
- 23 September: 2nd Croatian Congress on Forest Therapy (Krka National Park, Sibenik, Croatia)
- 21 September: XXIX Kongresu Uzdrowisk Polskich (Polanica-Zdrój, Poland)
- 13 September: New Trends in European Wellness Tourism (Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, Mexico)
- 1-2 September: Busan International Medical Tourism Convention (Busan, South Korea)
- 26 July: Opportunities in Wellness Tourism (A CBI webinar)
- 23 June: 2023 NYC Experience Wellness & Travel (Organic Spa Media Event, New York, USA)
- 8 June: 49th UNWTO Regional Commission for the Middle East & the “Medical & Wellness Tourism Conference” (Dead Sea, Jordan)
- 4-5 May: 1st Heatlh Travel International Congress (online, presentations)
- 24-25 April: 2nd Medical Wellness Congress (St. Anton, Austria, link, podcast with StarrCast about Medical Wellness)
- 17 March: The Healthusiasm Podcast: Human Enhancement, Health Equity & Transformational Travel (podcast)
- 9 March: Health and Wellness Travel Track, ITB (Berlin, Germany)
- 24 January: Global Wellness Economy: From Opportunity to a Successful Development. The Greek Case (online / recording)
HTWWLife Team delivered the following talks, presentations and trainings in 2022:
- 28-29 November: Discovering Niche Opportunities for Growth, World Tourism Conference by UNWTO & MOTA (Kuta Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia – video)
- 9 November: EquipHotel 2022 – The Hospitality & Food Business Place / Wellness Forum (Paris)
- 29 September: Seoul Medical Tourism International Forum/Seoul International Travel Mart for Medical Tourism 2022 (Seoul, South Korea)
- 27-29 September: International Congress on Thermal Tourism (Ourense, Spain)
- 23 & 25 August: Health & Wellness Task Force / Membership Meeting (Willemstad, Curacao)
- 19 August: Busan International Wellness Conference 2022 (Busan, South Korea)
- 7 August: Through Inspired Eyes: Travel can heal No 75: Beyond the Basic Search for Wellbeing with HTWWLife (podcast)
- 5 July: Wellness Tourism as a Game Changer Approach, International Wellness Conference & Festival
- 27-28 June: From Luxury to Necessity: Defining YVW (Your Version of Wellness) (St Anton, Austria – video here, snippet here and here) Medical Wellness Congress 2022
- 24 April: The Challenges of Wellness Data – Inspiring Conversations with Wellness Warriors by StarrCast wtih Jan Freitag of CoStar (podcast)
HTWWLife Team delivered the following talks, presentations and trainings in 2021:
- Video interview highlights
- 18 November: How Travel Professionals and Travel Companies Can Make a Travel Experience a bit more Wellnessified? (webinar recording)
- 13-14 October: NoRSA-ESPON Fonference (hybrid)
- 8 October: Spa & Wellness Tourism – Development, Perspectives and Experiences, Singidunum International Tourism Conference (hybrid, proceedings)
- 25 August: Inspiring Conversations with Wellness Warriors by StarrCast (podcast)
- 23-25 July: Busan International Wellness Conferece (hybrid, recording)
- 24-25 May: Wellness Travel 2030 – Arabian Travel Market (online)
- 19 May: Las Nuevas Fronteras del Turismo de Salud y Bienestar (podcast with Victor Saadia)
- 18-19 May: Spring into Recovery Webinar, International Institute Gastronomy, Culture, Arts & Tourism (online)
- 21 April: Asia Pacific Spa & Wellness Coalition ThinkTank 2030 – Wellness Travel 2030 Part 1 (recording)
- 14 April: Wellness Experience by Organic Spa Magazine (Getting to the Heart of Wellness & Low Impact, High Experience Travel Sessions)
- 26 March: Challenges and Opportunities for Thermal and Medical Spas in the V4 Countries (WellSpaV4 research report)
- 26 March: Asia Pacific Spa & Wellness Coalition Webinar: Spilling the Beans on Wellness (recording)
- 25 March: Health Tourism: Light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel webinar (presentation & recording)
- 12 March: ITB Expert Forum Wellness: Wellness & Travel. Outlook for Europe post-COVID19 (presentation)
- 25 February: TravTalk MiddleEast Digital Conclave: TRAVEL in 2021 – Finding happiness through wellness travel (online)
- 16 February: Wellness in Hospitality with Sonal Uberoi (online)
We have run series Webinars on Health Tourism in 2020 and 2021. You may find the transcripted discussions here:
- Health Tourism Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes (recording)
- Health Tourism: Light at the End of the COVID19 Tunnel (recording)
- Health Tourism Markets: Working Towards the Thaw (recording)
- Health Tourism: The Road Ahead Updated (recording)
- Health Tourism: The Road Ahead after COVID19 (recording)
- Health Tourism Grounded: Crisis Communication (recording)
HTWWLife Team delivered the following talks, presentations and trainings in 2020:
- 14 December (online): ΣOUL TAILORΣ TALK: Medical, Wellness & Health, the merge and opportunities arising (link)
- 9 December (online) Spa Business Education: Wellness Tourism Now & In the Future
- 29 November (online workshop) insigHT2020/Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council Conference: Post-COVID Marketing for Medical Tourism to Stay Ahead
- 13 November (online) Future of Wellness Conference: How many pillars of wellbeing exist?
- 12-13 November Crikvenica International Health Tourism Conference: Clusters & Associations 4.0 (presentation)
- 10 November (online) Medical Tourism International Forum: What does Wellness Mean Post-COVID19?
- 8 October (online) LitCare Podcast Series with Grazvydas Morkus: Health Travel During COVID-19. A Paradigm Shift?
- 1 October (online) Arabian Hotel Investment Conference/AHIC Day 3: Investing in Wellness the Right Way to Ensure ROI (review)
- 11 September (online) IGCAT Annual Conference: Exploring Linkages Between Food, Well-being and Sustainable Tourism
- 27 July Music Cities Community Webinar: Panel on Music and Wellbeing (review)
- 22 June WTM Global Hub: What Industry Stakeholders can tell us about the Future of Wellness Tourism
- 11-13 March & 29-30 April (Chur, Switzerland) Minor in Health Tourism Management Course (Fachhochschule Graubünden)
- 10-14 February (Parnu, Estonia) Health Tourism Course (University of Tartu, Parnu Kolledz)
- 24 January (Vilnius, Lithuania) Health Tourism: Luxury or Necessity Forum
HTWWLife Team would have delivered the following talks, presentations and trainings in 2020:
- 19-21 March (Seoul, South Korea) Medical Korea 2020
- 11 March (Da Nangh, Vietnam) APSWC Annual Workshop 2020
- 5 March (Berlin, Germany) Expert Forum Wellness ITB 2020
- 11-12 May (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) Punta Cana Wellness
You can learn about our talks and approaches from a selection of presentations we are happy to share with you. You can access them via our SlideShare account.