Sleep tourism: the vacations of good sleep.

Sleep problems affect the attention, energy and health of more than 12 million Italians. "Sleep tourism" emerges as a solution, with facilities offering peaceful environments and solutions for restorative rest.

Sleepless nights, complicated awakenings: about 12 million Italians suffer from sleep disorders. The experts’ warning? Don’t underestimate the warning signs. Sleep disorders are ageless and affect a large percentage of the world’s population: a sleep deficit that results in metabolic and functional disorders.
Not only that.
Failure to rest generates serious repercussions on daily life: attention, energy, creativity, productivity and memory are affected.
Reflexes are slower, the mood is black and one feels tired.

Young people are also bad sleepers: culprit, techno stress
, i.e., PCs, tablets, smartphones, digital books with backlit screens, from the anti-melatonin effect, the hormone that the body naturally releases after sunset.To resolve a disorder, it is important to accurately report every detail to the doctor: what happens and when the insomnia episodes occur. The night is like a five-car train: the first three are for physical and mental recovery, the last two are devoted to imagination, dreams, and REM sleep. Understanding where on the train insomnia happens is critical to finding the most congenial remedy. Not only that. Treating sleep is a key crossroads for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases,” explains Professor Liborio Parrino, head of the Center for Sleep Medicine at the University of Parma.

Sleep well to live better.

Sleep is a vital necessity, like drinking and eating, so much so that a third of life is spent precisely sleeping.
A long period of time that is unaware of what is happening around us and allows the body to recover from physical exertions and the brain to record lived experiences.

Getting a good night’s sleep at home is often a challenge: young children to care for, outside noise, stress.
That’s why more and more people are planning vacations to places of silence and disconnection to regain balance between mind and body.
The bedtime vacation already has a first name, sleep tourism, a trend that is growing in popularity, particularly after the pandemic, and which the hospitality industry welcomes.

Good sleep and where to practice it.

Some offer customized pillows, high, low, with feathers or natural seeds, some well soundproofed rooms to avoid hearing the neighbor snore.
Others have an extra edge and have developed innovative sleep coaching programs: from aromatherapy to specific sessions with sleep specialists, beds that massage and anti-gravity chairs.

In Paris, in the Marais district, Gabriel Boutique Hotel has installed Night Cove, the sleep companion.
It is a sophisticated system capable of emitting sounds that conciliate sleep and melatonin activators following the natural sequences of rest.
For awakening, atmospheric music and lighting.
The hotel rooms are strictly in muted hues that inspire quietness.

In the city of Big Ben, in Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s noisiest crossroads, Zedwell, a hotel with an innovative soundproofing system that makes its guests believe they are on a desert island, has opened.
Interesting is the proposal of the Gradonna Mountain Resort Châlets & Hotel in the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park in Val Pusteria.
For her guests she puts together customized programs.The Sleeping Sommelier, a sleep professional who identifies natural solutions, specific meditations to ensure restful nights after an interview.
In California, there’s the Pebble Beach Resort where stressed-out managers and entrepreneurs go to try the Flotation Wrap, a 45-minute total nap on a special water mattress wrapped in a warm wrap while breathing in scents that conciliate dreams.

Anti-insomnia spa.

Surrounded by nature, immersed in silence Monticelli Spa is a perfect refuge to regain energy, regenerate ideas starting with relaxation and peaceful nights.

The secret is all contained in the thermal waters, which have been well known and appreciated since ancient times: they are waters contained deep underground and are extremely rich in valuable elements such as sulfur, iodine, chlorine, iron, calcium and other components that in different values and doses have important therapeutic characteristics.
Thermal baths, combined with steam baths, saunas, whirlpools and walks in the park, slow the heart rate and stabilize blood pressure, improving the quality of sleep.

The correct routine of good sleep:

Create a relaxing environment: dark, well-ventilated, quiet
Go to bed early: never later than 11:30 p.m.
Avoid caffeinated foods or drinks before bedtime
Putting aside anxieties and worries
don’t go to bed hungry
Avoid intense physical exertion in the six hours before sleep
Avoid bright screens before bedtime
Avoid staying in bed in the morning if you are no longer sleepy.

Alsoread .

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Sleep tourism: the vacations of good sleep.