Travel for the purpose of promoting one’s health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities is done with the wellness tourism. Mindfulness and meditation while their travel time, Ayurveda and herbal treatments (indigenous medicine) are the main yearns for energizing physical and mental health. Most of travelers are seeking a new kind of break with their travel time. So wellness tourism is a trend taking the industry by storm. The complete happiness with physical and mental health is the main expectation through the Blissful journey.
Ayurveda and indigenous medicine are holistic approach to health and wellbeing, and are based on herbs and diet. Sri Lanka is blessed with an abundant supply of medicinal plants, herbs and spices, which are carefully used not just to heal or mitigate a particular disease or ailment, but also to promote the overall wellbeing of the patient. It also emphasizes harmony of body, mind and spirit. In Ayurveda & indigenous medicine, a combination of herbs, diet, massage, hydrotherapy and oil treatment is used to treat everything from stress to diabetes, migraine, asthma, arthritis, high blood pressure and all other diseases.
Sri Lanka does not need to rebrand itself as a wellness tourism destination because the distinction is clear. Most tourists who have been to Sri Lanka once are sure to recommend or return that is because it satisfies them in a way no other holiday does. Western medicine which treats only the body, towards a more holistic approach, But Sri Lanka has become ideal destination for those seeking solace in the Ayurveda and indigenous medicinal principle of body, mind and soul. It emphasizes on the harmony of mind, spirit and body in curing the body and focus is on prevention rather than cure. Physical and mental existence is together with personality as a unit, each element of the body having the capacity to influence the others.
The concept of wellness tourism dramatically broadens the appeal of medical tourism. Sri Lanka has been receiving medical tourists from western and European countries, South Asian countries and African regions also. Global travelers who come here for cheaper medical service and other travelers who are coming from highly developed countries and seek preventive treatments to develop their personal wellbeing and their mental health too. Meditation plays a major role in maintaining a perfect mental health of human being. Buddhist meditation mainly deals with right mindfulness, right concentration and right view, three of the Noble Eightfold path.
When consider the physical and mental health of body and mind, the ideal destination is Sri Lanka to seek solace with bliss for mindfulness and physical wellbeing with your journey. Although it would not heal your body or mind and may uplift your senses to a godly realm, shopping therapy is provide you a temporary bliss and Sri Lanka provide unique opportunity to immerse in shopping choosing between brilliant jewels and jewelry, finely carved wood, pottery and metal ware, porcelain, batik, spices and tea. The craftsman ship of the country’s jewelers, weavers, woodworkers and ivory carvers had amazed the world for the last three thousand years ever since their creations were exported to many a corner of the civilized world and you may wondrous to buy such kind of products for your memories in Sri Lanka.