ABOUT TRAVEL TO WELLNESS
TraveltoWellness.com is the FIRST (and as far as we know the ONLY) editorially-drive, monthly online magazine and free newsletter that caters to the growing number of wellness-minded travellers and the expanding spa and wellness travel niche. Read more...
Founder and editor of Travel to Wellness is award-winning travel and spa writer Anne Dimon. A professional magazine and newspaper writer/columnist for the last 17 years she has travelled the world for a variety of publications.
In additional to being the editor of traveltowellness.com, her outlets include Metro Toronto News (one of Toronto's largest dailies); Spa Business (published in the U.K.) Spa Asia, Singapore Airlines Magazine, Meetings & Incentive Travel Magazine (for the last 15 years), Hotelier Magazine, Oxygen Magazine, Canadian Government Executive Magazine and Clean Eating, a new healthy-eating magazine launched December, 2007 and available on magazine stands in Canada and the U.S. Anne also writes the Best Spas in Canada guide for Glow Magazine. Michelin Publications' 2004 Must Sees of Toronto guide book is another of her credits.
She was a travel columnist with the Toronto Star for close to nine years; as well as a travel columnist for the Calgary Herald and Halifax Herald for almost that long. Her latest project, Travel to Wellness Canada, the first editorial online travel guide to Canada as a spa and wellness destination, is now live.
Prior to her life as a journalist, she was president of her own public relations company. In her early career, she worked in broadcasting - radio and television - both on-camera and behind the scenes.
Anne is also the creator of a line of fashionable travel, resort, cruise and spa wear. The line is called Arrivez
A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC), she was the 2003 recipient of the TMAC Professional Integrity Award presented by Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and in 2004 she received TMAC's Business Travel Award presented by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. She is also a recognized, anti-smoking spokesperson for Ontario's Heart & Stroke Foundation, and the former media spokesperson for Ontario Blue Cross. She has recently been included in the Ontario Free-Tobacco Network for her contribution to the implementation of the Smoke-Free Ontario Act on May 31, 2006.
For interviews, to pitch story ideas or receive permission to reprint any of the copyright material found on this site, please contact Anne at editor@traveltowellness.com
What is Wellness Travel?
Wellness Travel is about travelling for the primary purpose of achieving, promoting or maintaining maximum health and a sense of well-being. It's about being proactive in discovering new ways to promote a healthier, less stressful lifestyle. It's about finding balance in one's life. It begins with intent.
Travel on the path to wellness can include spa treatments, healthy eating, outdoor fitness activities (hiking, cycling, mindful walking, yoga, paddling and cross-country skiing or snoeshoeing), inspirational outings and adventures that clear or expand the mind, and educational programs that teach us how to incorporate healthy habits into our everyday lives. It can be as simple as taking off for a wellness weekend to relax, refresh, reenergize and rejuvenate. Think of it as pulling off the road of life to admire a sunset when you're stuck in a traffic jam, or tearing yourself away from your laptop to water the garden, when you're up-to-your-eyebrows in deadlines. Wellness Travel is the pause that reenergizes and rejuvenates.
Each month Travel to Wellness.com will feature new stories written by professional travel and spa writers. Stories will be about personal visits to spas, wellness resorts and hotels, wellness programs, plus tales on fitness-oriented activities and inspirational adventures.
The spas and wellness destinations written about on this site do not pay to be included. This is a magazine model where advertising supports the editorial content. Stories that are part of Travel to Wellness are journalistic effort by impartial writers.
For the novice spa-goer, Travel to Wellness.com also offers Spas 101 which includes types of spas, a glossary, spa tips for first-timers, types of treatments, what to wear, what men need to know, how to select a spa or wellness destination that suits your specific needs and personality, plus lots more.
Articles is where you'll find a number of spa reviews, fitness adventures and other travel stories to help with the research, planning and booking your spa vacation and/or wellness holiday.
The Travel to Wellness Newsletter is a monnthly update e-mailed free to subscribers. Subscriber e-mails will NOT be shared with anyone else. In fact, in order to keep up-to-date on what's happening on the spa and wellness travel scene, why not Sign Up right now!
Thank you for browsing our pages. We hope you find the information useful and will visit us again. Oh yes, and please tell your friends. We'd also love to hear from you so please send comments, suggestions, advice for other wellness-minded travellers to editor@traveltowellness.com