Panhou Retreat: It’s not only the destination but also a place to return

The lovely bangalow rooms are tucked among the breathtaking countryside.

According to Grand View Research, the market for "wellness tourism" will exceed $10 billion by 2022. This amount is predicted to rise to roughly $100 billion by 2030, offering massive opportunity internationally over the next decade.

Traveling to understand and find yourself

"Wellness" in English refers to health, which includes both physical and spiritual components. Health and wellness retreats have been the most empathic kind of travel in modern culture, particularly during the COVID-19 epidemic, which has had a tremendous influence and pushed the trend of travel. Travel is about more than simply the location; wellness tourism encourages everyone to discover a place where they can take care of themselves.

Stepping out of your comfort zone, retreating to nature to calm the senses and emotions, and enjoying balancing treatments are all ways for humans to slow down, purify and rejuvenate themselves, and discover positive energy for a happy existence.

The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) projects that the health and wellness tourism market will expand at a 21% annual pace from 2020 to 2025, outpacing all other sectors of the entire health care industry.

Visitors choose to relax in regions with plenty of green space and away from densely populated residential areas (Photo: Yoga by the stream at Panhou Retreat).

Meanwhile, according to a recent Wellness Tourism Association poll, 76% of respondents would spend more money on vacations to enhance their health, and 55% would be prepared to pay more for psychological counseling services or activities. In the future, wellness tourism will be a long-term development trend.

Vietnam is not immune to this tendency. According to a survey on the real estate consumer psychology index published by Batdongsan.com.vn in early 2022, middle-class and wealthy consumers in Vietnam prefer to live in regions with greater green space and distance from heavily crowded areas.

Clearly, humans are increasingly seeking emotional equilibrium in Mother Nature, to be "healed" in body, mind, and soul, as Jane Austen, a British author of the early 18th century, put it: "They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."

Unleashing a New Energy Horizon

Charming bungalows are tucked among the towering mountains of Hoang Su Phi, near centuries-old terraced rice fields recognized as National Heritage. The Panhou Retreat is nestled in this gorgeous setting, a green treasure nourished and concealed by the old forest, and a source of pride for the Ha Giang people.

Panhou Retreat, which has welcomed thousands of international visitors for the past 20 years, still maintains the genuine qualities of Hoang Su Phi's fundamental history. "When seeking nature, we can go to the forest or the sea," said Dr. Nguyen Hong Thuc, Director of the Institute for Migration Studies. The active water helps to reduce tension, rekindle excitement and desire, and awaken our most remorseful side. But going to the forest means returning to peace and knowledge. Nature teaches us so much!"

"Young trees will strive to rise and embrace the light of humanity beneath the old forest canopy." The older the tree, the less it sways, and as it develops, it chooses to stand still. It keeps one peaceful by being patient, modest, and aware that life is about giving rather than receiving."

Panhou Retreat is a place to return to, to discover our true selves in an open heart with nature, to harmonize our soul with the grass, flowers, and leaves, and to receive the "nurturing" and "healing" methods that enter our subconscious and activate new energy fields within each individual.

Bathing in medicinal Dao leaves according to a secret formula passed down through the centuries by the Red Dao people themselves.

Aside from healing the body, mind, and spirit, visitors may also practice yoga by the stream, cycle to appreciate the breathtaking natural surroundings, or simply relax in natural hot springs. Those who want to push their boundaries can run or walk over the Hoang Su Phi mountain range's extensive pathways without the need for modern equipment.

Many travelers come to Panhou Retreat as if they have discovered a familiar spot, surrounded by nature and calm, to get fresh energy released from inside themselves, owing to the loving and therapeutic therapies that nature has carefully concealed and entrusted here.

"When you step into nature, you are healing your internal wounds." Only by regaining your inner optimism will you be able to revitalize the connections around you. Listen to your feelings in order to return to nature on time!"

Tourists may enjoy listening to their body, mind, and spirit with each resort service experience here. For example, whether they immerse themselves in a Dao people's relaxing herbal bath made from fresh materials selected from the Panhou garden, or thoroughly rest their bodies with traditional therapeutic massages... It is not only the beneficial experience of medical treatment measures for the body, but it is also in that quiet place that we learn philosophical ideas and receive and activate the condition of self-regenerating energy in the subconscious. Tourists may relax with "Meditation tea" and let go of the ego in the art of thinking and logical reasoning while savoring the historic Snowshan tea...

The antique shan snow teapots not only help you relax, but the art of thinking and logical thinking - also benefit you.

Aside from healing the body, mind, and spirit, visitors may also practice yoga by the stream, cycle to appreciate the breathtaking natural surroundings, or simply rest in natural hot springs. Those who want to push their boundaries can run or walk over the Hoang Su Phi mountain range's extensive pathways without modern equipment.

Many travelers come to Panhou Retreat as if they have discovered a familiar spot, surrounded by nature and calm, to get fresh energy released from inside themselves, owing to the loving and therapeutic therapies that nature has carefully concealed and entrusted here.