Clinique La Prairie Residences in AMAALA
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Luxury wellness used to be easy to recognize. There was usually a meditation pavilion, a tranquil spa treatment room, or a yoga deck facing the ocean. It looked beautiful, but it often felt reserved for tourists on vacation.
That model is changing fast. Wellness is moving beyond the resort spa into the places people live, work, recover, and age. It is appearing in private clubs, medical centers, residential towers, remote island developments, and entire communities planned around health from the start.
That shift is the central theme of the 2026 Global Wellness Summit’s Global Glimpse survey, which frames wellness not as an amenity but as a development strategy. Increasingly, it is built into architecture, hospitality, healthcare, investment, and daily routines.
Sea Villas at Longevity Island in Abu Dhabi
Longevity Island
I spoke with Lynne McNees, president of the International SPA Association, about the change. “The spa experience has always been about more than pampering. Spa is where wellness begins. At their core, spas exist to restore the mind, body, and spirit, meeting guests wherever they are on their journey of wellbeing. What we’ve seen since the pandemic is a growing demand for authentic experiences that deliver meaningful results through relaxation, recovery, stress management, restorative sleep, and greater vitality. The industry’s core mission hasn’t changed, but consumer expectations have certainly evolved.”
Developers are moving quickly because there is a lot of money at stake. The Global Wellness Institute reports that the global wellness economy reached $6.8 trillion in 2024 and could grow to $9.8 trillion by 2029. The most successful new projects are not just building bigger spas. Instead, they focus on longer guest stays, encouraging repeat visits, preventive health, club memberships, branded residences, and entire communities designed for recovery and longer life.
The Middle East is especially active, with Saudi Arabia and the UAE including wellness in their tourism, real estate, and lifestyle plans. Cities like Miami, New York, Dubai, Bangkok, and Melbourne also show how broad the wellness sector has become. Wellness is no longer just for rural retreats or remote getaways. Now, it is part of city life, social activities, and daily routines.
Therme Dubai will be the world’s tallest wellness resort
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Credibility matters too. Offering massages or mountain hikes is one thing, but diagnostics, longevity promises, and clinical treatments are something else. The best projects make serious wellness feel personal, not like you’re spending your vacation in a lab.
Susie Ellis, co-founder and CEO of the Global Wellness Summit, told me how broad the field has become. “At this year’s Wellness Real Estate Symposium, we showcased the largest and most diverse group of projects underway globally to date,” she said. “What’s most striking and heartening to me is that while the luxury end of the market is booming, such as new longevity residences that bring preventative clinics home, the global market now shows wellness-focused real estate is being created at any scale, for any occupants, and at any price point, from multifamily to affordable housing. The market is going mainstream, and that will move the needle significantly for more people’s health and wellness.”
2026
Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort in Austin
Canyon RanchCanyon Ranch Austin — Austin, Texas
Canyon Ranch Austin introduces the brand’s health-focused approach to Texas Hill Country. Guests can enjoy fitness, nutrition, spa treatments, diagnostics, outdoor activities, and extended wellness stays. This new location marks a major U.S. expansion as wellness travel increasingly focuses on prevention and daily performance.
AMEYALLI Resort and Wellbeing Center in Utah
AMEYALLI Deepak Chopra’s Wellbeing Center at AMEYALLI — Utah
AMEYALLI is a residential wellness resort and historic hot springs destination, featuring a 50,000-square-foot Wellbeing Center. The resort highlights geothermal water, a mineral pool below ground, outdoor sauna experiences, comfortable residences, and a wellbeing program created with Deepak Chopra.
Open-air EQX Magnesium Pool at Equinox AMAALA Triple Bay
Equinox HotelsEquinox Resort and Residences AMAALA — Saudi Arabia
Equinox is introducing its wellness-focused approach to AMAALA on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, offering a resort and residences centered on fitness, recovery, movement, and healthy living. This is just one of several projects that help make AMAALA a true wellness destination, not just a single-brand resort.
EYWA Tree of Life tower in Dubai
EYWAEywa, The Tree of Life Tower — Dubai, UAE
Eywa is a luxury residence in Dubai inspired by the banyan tree. Its architecture centers on nature, water, crystals, and organic shapes. Spa and wellness areas, private homes, and a focus on biophilic design set it apart from other high-end towers in the city.
ROMM Convent in Bangkok
ROMM ConventROMM Convent — Bangkok, Thailand
Located in Bangkok’s Sathorn district, this urban residence puts wellness first. Instead of typical condo amenities, it focuses on recovery, sleep, movement, and calm. Spa-inspired spaces, hydrotherapy, fitness areas, and natural design help make it a peaceful place to live in one of the city’s busiest neighborhoods.
The Estate in St Kitts
SBETony Robbins’ The Estate — St. Kitts
Backed by hotelier Sam Nazarian and motivational guru Tony Robbins, The Estate is a high-profile longevity launch. The brand focuses on functional and preventive medicine, advanced diagnostics, and luxury hospitality. St. Kitts is expected to be one of the first resort locations.
Tri Vananda in Thailand
Tri VanandaTri Vananda — Phuket, Thailand
Tri Vananda is a residential wellness community in Phuket focused on healing, nature, and long-term vitality. Its health resort, developed with Clinique La Prairie, brings Swiss longevity programming to a tropical, multigenerational setting.
2027Aman Miami Beach — Miami Beach, Florida
Aman Miami Beach is now located on the oceanfront where the Versailles Hotel once stood, introducing the brand’s signature luxury and focus on wellness to South Beach. The project will include hotel rooms, branded residences, private club spaces, and Aman’s well-known spa experience.
Atria at One High Line in New York
GettyAtria at One High Line — New York, NY
Atria plans to build a 52,000-square-foot facility at One High Line that will connect the two luxury condo towers. The space will include imaging suites, movement studios, patient rooms, and a longevity cafe with views of the Hudson. This project highlights how preventive medicine is now seen as a luxury amenity in big cities.
Clinique La Prairie Health Resort, AMAALA — Saudi Arabia
Clinique La Prairie is introducing its Swiss medical-wellness approach to AMAALA, with a focus on diagnostics, prevention, cellular health, recovery, and personalized longevity programs. This addition makes the Red Sea project one of the region’s top wellness destinations.
Émerge Residences by Elysian
Emerge ResidencesÉmerge Residences by Elysian — Dubai, UAE
Émerge Residences features luxury apartments in Dubai with outdoor saunas, cold plunge pools, wellness amenities, landscaped spaces, and a club-like atmosphere. The Elysian Longevity Clubhouse adds treatments like Contrast Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and Cryotherapy. These homes are made for people who value health, style, and routines from the start.
Elysium Fields in Melbourne
GurnerElysium Fields — Melbourne, Australia
Gurner’s Elysium Fields is one of Australia’s most talked-about wellness-focused residential projects. The homes are designed to support longevity, recovery, and a club-like sense of wellbeing. Instead of just offering a gym and spa, the project creates a private health-focused environment for residents.
Jayasom Wellness Resort, AMAALA
JayasomJayasom Wellness Resort, AMAALA — Saudi Arabia
Jayasom is set to become one of AMAALA’s main wellness centers, bringing together integrative health, nutrition, fitness, spa treatments, and mind-body practices. Its size shows AMAALA’s goal to be a complete wellness destination, not just a resort with a spa.
Madison Grand / GQ Residences
GurnerMadison Grand — Melbourne, Australia
Madison Grand by Gurner presents itself as Australia’s first luxury high-rise focused on longevity, offering 41 stories and 398 residences designed for reverse-aging and high-performance living. The SAINT Wellness Suites feature in-home biohacking tools like a PEMF infrared therapy mat, a temperature-regulating ChilliPad, blue light-blocking lights, air purification, live plants, and a vitamin C-infused shower.
SHA Wellness AlJurf
SHA WellnessSHA Wellness Residences Emirates — AlJurf, UAE
SHA Wellness Residences at AlJurf introduces the Spanish brand’s focus on health to the UAE coast, located between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. This 1000-acre island is designed as a private destination for wellness and longevity, offering homes and access to SHA’s health programs.
Six Senses Tel Aviv
Six SensesSix Senses Tel Aviv — Tel Aviv, Israel
Six Senses Tel Aviv offers a hotel, spa, and branded residences set among restored heritage buildings and new structures. The brand’s focus on wellness comes to life in this urban Mediterranean location, featuring modern spa and wellness facilities.
Velvære in Park City
Velvære Velvære — Park City, Utah
Velvære features ski-in/ski-out homes in Park City, created for those who care about wellness and community. The center of the neighborhood is The Well, a planned 12,000-square-foot sanctuary that combines Cryotherapy and contrast bathing with an outdoor thermal circuit, hot and cold plunges, performance science, healing traditions, nutrition focused on the microbiome, biohacking, and integrative medicine.
2028
AKEN MIND, Kanora Bay Residences
AKEN MINDAKEN MIND, Kanora Bay Residences — Cartagena, Colombia
AKEN MIND centers on nature, water, mindful living, and restoration. It will blend ancestral therapies with modern technology. The beachfront property will include 152 Aken Mind Residences, and 120 Aken Soul hotel rooms.
Aman Beverly Hills — Beverly Hills, California
Aman Beverly Hills brings the brand’s calm, minimalist luxury to one of the best spots in Los Angeles. The property includes 10 acres of botanical gardens, a 78-room Aman hotel, and private Residences in two towers beside the hotel’s large wellness center.
Lefay Resort & SPA Lago di Garda
LefayLefay Wellness Residences — Lake Garda, Italy
Lefay Wellness Residences builds on the resort’s reputation for wellness on Lake Garda. The property offers 96 suites and private villas, along with a large wellness center that features five pools, seven saunas, and a fitness center. The brand’s unique wellness approach guides its programs and signature treatments.
Six Senses Comporta
Six SensesSix Senses Comporta — Comporta, Portugal
Six Senses Comporta will be located in one of Portugal’s most sought-after coastal areas. The resort will feature a 70-room hotel, 58 branded residences, and a modern wellness center with sensory suites and both hydro and thermal therapies. It is set to become one of Europe’s most exciting new wellness resort-residence openings.
Six Senses Residences Dubai Marina
Six SensesSix Senses Residences Dubai Marina — Dubai, UAE
Six Senses Residences Dubai Marina will soon stand among the tallest residential towers in the world. The building features 250 branded homes, including impressive Sky Mansions, and brings the brand’s wellness philosophy to urban life. Residents can enjoy a 61,250-square-foot wellness center across four floors, along with recovery areas, and fitness programs, all overlooking the marina.
Therme Dubai
Diller Scofidio + RenfroTherme Dubai, Islands in the Sky — Dubai, UAE
Therme Dubai is set to become the world’s tallest wellness resort, with 500,000 square feet of space and a height of 300 feet in Zabeel Park. The resort features three zones: Play, Relax, and Restore. Guests can enjoy thermal pools, saunas, steam rooms, mineral baths, water slides, restaurants, an indoor botanical garden, and event spaces.
2029
Buchinger Resort in the hills above Roquefort-les-Pins in France.
BuchingerBuchinger Wilhelmi Health Resort — French Riviera, France
This is the first Buchinger Wilhelmi resort in France. It has 95 rooms and four private villas, and is run by experts in therapeutic fasting and longevity medicine. The resort’s ten-day programs focus on physical, mental, and spiritual health, all within a structured clinical setting supervised by doctors, nutritionists, and therapists.
Gelephu Mindfulness City
Gelephu Mindfulness CityGelephu Mindfulness City — Gelephu, Bhutan
Bhutan is planning its most ambitious development yet: a new mindfulness city near the Indian border. The city will focus on wellness, sustainability, spirituality, and low-impact living. Unlike a resort, this project is a large-scale experiment to see how health and culture can guide development.
Silva Gigiri Residences
Silva GigiriSilva Gigiri Residences — Nairobi, Kenya
Silva Gigiri offers luxury wellness living in Nairobi’s diplomatic district. Residents enjoy high-end homes, hotel-style services, a wellness center, and eco-friendly design. This is one of the few branded wellness-residential projects in Africa.
The Wilds in Dubai
The WildsThe Wilds by Aldar — Dubai, UAE
Aldar’s The Wilds is a residential community in Dubai designed with nature in mind. Homes are set among green corridors and offer outdoor living spaces and a wellness sanctuary. This approach moves away from closed-off luxury towers and instead creates a neighborhood centered on walking, natural landscapes, and daily wellbeing.
TBD
Amansamar — Wadi Safar
AmanAman Residences, Amansamar — Wadi Safar, Saudi Arabia
Aman Residences, Amansamar at Wadi Safar is a luxury retreat set on a desert cliff just outside Riyadh. Guests can enjoy Aman’s focus on wellness, including hammam and banya houses as well as hydrotherapy facilities. These exclusive residences will be next to the 80-suite Aman hotel.
Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara
Equinox HotelsEquinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara — Anguilla
Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara is set within a superyacht community focused on regeneration and unique luxury experiences. The property features a 118-berth marina, a 62-room resort, and branded residences, including oceanfront and upland villas as well as Equinox homes.
Longevity Island in Abu Dhabi
Longevity IslandLongevity Island — Abu Dhabi, UAE
Longevity Island brings together regenerative medicine and luxury coastal living on the Al Jurf coast, between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. This golf and wellness community will feature upscale homes and a modern medical and bio-optimization center, offering advanced diagnostics, regenerative treatments, and preventive healthcare. The center will use the latest technology in genetic mapping, cellular rejuvenation, and longevity science.
Tavan Jargal Resort in Mongolia
Alberto Apostoli DesignsTavan Jargal Resort — Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The resort is located inside a National Park and offers 27 residential villas, a 20-room hotel with shared spaces, and a wellness center. Guests can enjoy two swimming pools, an onsen, and 20 Ger-pods, which are modern versions of traditional Mongolian dwellings. This setting lets you enjoy a peaceful stay surrounded by the future forest.
Aerial view of master plan of The Nest of Humanity in Los Cabos.
The Nest of HumanityThe Nest of Humanity — San José del Cabo, Mexico
The Nest of Humanity is the first working example of HUMĀNIKA, a regenerative community platform in the San José del Cabo Golden Zone. Founder Samantha Arroyo Curiel tells me “It’s a living ecosystem where longevity, biophilic design, community and human purpose are the architecture itself. For decades, wellness was experienced through destinations. Today, it is evolving toward communities intentionally designed to support longevity, wellbeing, belonging, and human connection as part of everyday life.”
The Residences at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Antigua
Nikki BeachThe Residences at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Antigua — Antigua
The Residences at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Antigua bring a wellness focus to the brand’s beach-club lifestyle. The 11,000-square-foot Nikki Spa will offer sound baths, sleep rituals, IV therapies, and programs for body optimization and recovery.
Other Openings To Watch
These projects are not part of the 33 highlighted properties, but they show a move toward longevity resorts, luxury branded residences, and private wellness clubs.
Eha Retreat in Estonia
Eha RetreatEha Retreat — Hiiumaa Island, Estonia
Eha is a unique, architecturally significant retreat on Hiiumaa Island, part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. With only eight suites and three forest cabins, guests can experience Estonian and ancestral healing traditions, thermal rituals, a floating pool, saunas, steam rooms, cold plunges, hydrotherapies, and quiet walks in the forest.
Maybourne Saint-Germain with Surrenne — Paris, France
Maybourne is opening in Paris with 101 rooms and 23 branded residences, which are said to be the first of their kind in the city. The Surrenne wellness and longevity club is set to become one of Paris’s top luxury spa and health spots, offering diagnostics, advanced testing, fitness, recovery, and beauty programs.
Six Senses Milan — Milan, Italy
Six Senses will open a new urban wellness hotel in Milan’s art quarter, offering 53 rooms and 16 suites. Designed by Tara Bernerd & Partners, the hotel features Arabescato marble and showcases Milanese craftsmanship. The spa includes a 50-foot indoor pool, two saunas, a steam room, and a cold plunge pool. Guests can choose from a range of therapies that combine modern recovery treatments with traditional holistic healing.
One&Only Hudson Valley
One&OnlyOne&Only Hudson Valley Longevity Hub — New York
The Longevity Hub by Clinique La Prairie is joining One&Only Hudson Valley, a planned 61-room resort with branded residences near the Culinary Institute of America. By bringing together food culture, a rural setting, and longevity programs, this will be the brand’s most advanced luxury longevity clinic yet.
Janu Al Marjan Island
JanuJanu Al Marjan Island — UAE
Aman Group’s sister brand Janu will bring a 132-room resort and branded residences to Al Marjan Island. The wellness center includes a yoga studio, hammam, banya and gym, with a private beach, beach club and residential tower with units ranging from one-bedroom apartments to standalone villas.
AMRA Integrative Wellness Resort — UAE
AMRA is an integrative wellness resort on the blue carbon coast of Umm Al Quwain. It features three sea-facing towers with 820 fully furnished serviced apartments. Guests can enjoy over 470,000 square feet of wellness facilities, including hydrotherapy pools and longevity-focused services.
TheLifeCo Longevity Village — St. Lucia
TheLifeCo is creating a physician-led wellness destination at A’ila Resorts in St. Lucia, focusing on detox, transformation, and medical wellness programs. This project is part of a $1.3 billion multi-phase development aiming to become the world’s first Longevity Village in the Caribbean.
Complete Master List By Opening Year2026
Canyon Ranch Austin — Austin, Texas
Deepak Chopra’s Wellbeing Center at AMEYALLI — Midway, Utah
Equinox Resort and Residences AMAALA — Saudi Arabia
Eywa, The Tree of Life Tower — Dubai, UAE
ROMM Convent — Bangkok, Thailand
Tony Robbins’ The Estate — St. Kitts
Tri Vananda — Phuket, Thailand
2027
Aman Miami Beach — Miami Beach, Florida
Atria at One High Line — New York, NY
Clinique La Prairie Health Resort AMAALA — Saudi Arabia
Émerge Residences by Elysian — Dubai, UAE
Elysium Fields — Melbourne, Australia
Jayasom Wellness Resort AMAALA — Saudi Arabia
Madison Grand — Melbourne, Australia
SHA Wellness Residences Emirates — AlJurf, UAE
Six Senses Tel Aviv — Tel Aviv, Israel
Velvære — Park City, Utah
2028
AKEN MIND, Kanora Bay Residences — Cartagena, Colombia
Aman Beverly Hills — Beverly Hills, California
Lefay Wellness Residences — Lake Garda, Italy
Six Senses Comporta — Comporta, Portugal
Six Senses Residences Dubai Marina — Dubai, UAE
Therme Dubai, Islands in the Sky — Dubai, UAE
2029
Buchinger Wilhelmi Health Resort — French Riviera, France
Gelephu Mindfulness City — Gelephu, Bhutan
Silva Gigiri / Silva Residences — Nairobi, Kenya
The Wilds by Aldar — Dubai, UAE
TBD
Amansamar — Wadi Safar — Saudi Arabia
Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara — Anguilla
Longevity Island — Abu Dhabi, UAE
Tavan Jargal Resort — Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Nest of Humanity — San José del Cabo, Mexico
The Residences at Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Antigua — Antigua
Other Openings To Watch
Eha Retreat — Hiiumaa Island, Estonia
Maybourne Saint-Germain with Surrenne — Paris, France
Six Senses Milan — Milan, Italy
One&Only Hudson Valley Longevity Hub — Hudson Valley, New York
Janu Al Marjan Island — Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
AMRA Integrative Wellness Resort — Umm Al Quwain, UAE
TheLifeCo Longevity Village — St. Lucia
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