New properties, new standards, and what the index itself shows as it grows. Every entry carries its sources, for the same reason every score does.
From the index · 2026-08-19 · 1 min
The Global Wellness Institute puts wellness tourism at roughly 830 billion dollars and growing faster than tourism itself. The money is real. The measurements behind the word are not keeping pace, and that gap is where saturation shows first.
From the index · 2026-08-19 · 1 min
Sleep has become hospitality's favourite promise, from sleep concierges to mattress menus. Read the records underneath the promise and the two things that decide a night, light and sound, are the least published subjects in the industry.
Standards · 2026-08-19 · 2 min
Building biology, the discipline our assessment methods draw on, calls the building the third skin, after the skin you were born in and the clothes you put on. Sixty years of German practice sits behind the phrase, and it is the frame that makes measuring a bedroom make sense.
Standards · 2026-08-19 · 2 min
Every certification in the market measures something real. None of them measures what a hospitality building does to the body sleeping in it, across all eight pathways, on site. That is the whole differentiation, stated against the market's own registries.
From the index · 2026-08-05 · 3 min
We scored 146 wellness and eco properties on what they publish about the buildings guests sleep in. Across eight pathways the pattern is the same: plenty of named systems, almost no numbers. On EMF, 115 of 146 publish nothing at all.
Standards · 2026-08-05 · 3 min
WELL, LEED, GSTC, Fitwel, EarthCheck, Green Key, Green Globe, B Corp, The Long Run, BIO HOTELS, Nordic Swan and Building Biology, read against their own published criteria. EMF is the only column with no middle ground: one covers it, eleven do not.
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