This Is the Biggest Trend in Luxury Travel—And It May Help You Live Longer
Longevity tourism is taking the world by storm. Here’s where to experience it on your next trip.
Sensei Lanai, A Four Seasons Resort/Tanveer Badal
No longer is health simply skin deep. There’s been an industry-wide shift in what consumers expect from wellness, and that trickles down to travel. Gone are the days of a spa treatment or a simple juice cleanse detox retreat being sufficient. The new luxury is longevity. Consumers are looking for bonafide biohacks and roadmaps that can be taken back home and integrated into their daily routines, providing a longer, healthier life. Here are three key players in the space.
Modern Elder Academy
Modern Elder Academy
Hospitality entrepreneur and author of Learning to Love Midlife Chip Conley recently opened the second location of Modern Elder Academy in Santa Fe. After the success of the first space in Todos Santos, Conley expanded his retreats to reframe relationships with aging. Activities include everything from mid-life edit workshops to interrelationship analysis. “Our program has three key pillars: navigating transitions, cultivating purpose, and owning wisdom. That all falls under the banner of how we reframe our relationship with aging,” says Conley. “We’re moving out of the era of knowledge and into the era of wisdom.”
Sensei Lanai
Sensei Lanai
At this bespoke wellness destination, the learning starts long before you arrive on the island. Working with Sensei’s guides, guests set their intention, and then work with the resort’s top tier coaches, doctors, and instructors to not only have best-in-class spa experiences and fitness programming, but gain a new blueprint on how to live a better, more fulfilled life once returning home. Programming includes everything from hiking retreats to hydrotherapy massages to fascia rolling and VO2 Max testing.
SLS Hotels
The Estate
Sam Nazarian, the founder of sbe, will debut his new line of hotels and residences called The Estate, in partnership with entrepreneur Tony Robbins. The new luxury hotel brand will be focused on wellness, longevity, and preventative medicine. The new endeavor will start out with the opening of a longevity and preventative medicine center slated to open in Los Angeles at Century Plaza in the second half of 2025, and will be followed by hotel openings in St. Kitts, Trento, Italy, and Montreux, Switzerland starting in 2026.
