New Partnerships and Dates Announced for the 2024 World Wellness Weekend

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7,400 venues nationwide have already announced planned events on the World Wellness Weekend map.
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The eighth annual World Wellness Weekend will be celebrated from September 20 to September 22, 2024. It was announced that 7,400 venues have created a free page on the World Wellness Map detailing their planned activities and events to support the growing annual event, with hopes that 10,000 venues will organize fun and free group activities in 160 countries.

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Since 2017, the World Wellness Weekend has gained support from 14 ministers and governors, 30 mayors and 60 professional associations nationwide. This year, the group has revealed new strategic partnerships.

World Health Organization and the United Nations in Geneva will raise awareness with their Art Impact for Health & SDGs event. For the first time, professionals across hospitality, tourism, fitness, beauty, spa and nutrition are invited to co-create an artistic physical and digital mosaic mural at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Fondazione SportCity Day will support the vision of Repubblica del Movimento with fun and free sports activities in 150 cities with CIWAS (Confederazione Italiana Wellness and Sports) and 651 venues signed up on the Wellness Map of Italy. The reported objective of the collaboration is to extend the resonance of Italian Sport Cities internationally and increase the impact of initiatives related to the European Week of Sport from September 23 to 30, 2024.

Endurance Zone plans to launch a Wellness App that rewards healthy habits by recording minutes of movement and mindfulness, with an international leaderboard with 16 countries and rewards from leading brands in fitness.

World Cleanup Day, celebrated in 2023 by 19 million people in 198 countries, shares the same date as the start of World Wellness Weekend on Friday, September 20, 2024. The two organizations plan to share vision, passion and actions to encourage people to thrive and promote Wellness For All: Wellness for People and the Planet.

International Week of Happiness at Work, occurring from September 23 to 27, 2024, will work in tandem with World Wellness Weekend to encourage businesses and corporations to organize some wellness activities in the workplace and instill a culture of wellness for people to flourish.

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