Travel Trend - Sleep Tourism

Can’t sleep? Then you’ll appreciate a growing vacation trend – sleep tourism – with hotels focusing on experiences designed specifically to improve your sleep, and therefore your overall health.

Hotel bedroom to illustrate article on new sleep toursm trends_ecoxplorer — Hilton photo

Choose from relaxation experiences such as sound baths in Singapore, sleep yoga sessions in the Maldives, and immersive sleep concerts in China, along with comfy mattresses and pillows, blackout curtains and soothing decor back in your room.

The idea is that it’s not just about where you stay, but how well you rest while you are there.

Here are some of the sleep tourism hotels and the programs they offer at various Hilton brand hotels and resorts.

Not surprisingly, most of them are in Asia and the Pacific, where meditation and mindfulness are more of a tradition, even an integral part of the culture, than in North America.

Hilton Nanjing Niushoushan

This initiative features a 60-minute Singing Bowl Healing session, where the resonant tones of singing bowls guide guests into deep relaxation and tranquility.

To amplify this experience, guests can reside in Zen-themed rooms and partake in activities like tea tasting and calligraphy.

These offerings create a culturally immersive environment intended to refresh both mind and body.

The Singing Bowl Healing sessions are available every Saturday, so you have to get to sleep on your own the rest of the week.

Over-water bungalow in the Pacific_evelynkanter — Photo: Hilton Maldives

Hilton Maldives Amingiri Resort & Spa

Situated on the serene Amingiri Island in the North Malé Atoll, where the new Sleep Wellness Menu includes the revitalizing Hammam Evening Ritual, which blends ancient practices with contemporary luxury.

Also appealing is the Under the Skye experience, where guests can indulge in an open-air massage, serenaded by the soothing sounds of the ocean beneath the starry sky.

For those seeking a more private retreat, the In-villa Rest & Relaxation treatments provide the same tranquil experience within the comfort of guests’ own rooms.

Next Hotel Melbourne, Curio Collection

Following recent research from Hilton Australasia, which reveals that 44% of Australians select hotels based on the quality of mattresses, bedding, and linens, this hotel now offers guests to chance to enjoy luxury hotel sleep at home.

The DreamWeave Bed, crafted locally in Melbourne specifically for Next Hotel Melbourne, boasts a plush, custom-designed mattress paired with a luxurious pillow top. Hilton Honors members get a 25% discount on both mattresses and bases.

Conrad Singapore Orchard

Reimagining the classic turndown service, this night-time ritual is designed to help travelers establish their own personal relaxation routine.

To escape the city’s hustle, guests can enjoy a soothing in-room sound bath accompanied by ‘Singapore Sleep’ tea, crafted from indigenous botanicals. For an optimal sleep experience, the hotel provides luxurious bed linens and a diverse pillow menu for personalized comfort.

Upon waking, guests can embrace the new day with Morning Intention Sessions by the pool, setting a positive tone for their day ahead.

Conrad Bengaluru

This hotel features soundproof rooms and mattresses designed to minimize motion disturbances, and choices from an extensive pillow menu that includes memory foam pillows, body pillows, and vegan alternatives such as buckwheat pillows.

To guarantee ideal sleeping conditions, the hotel equips each room with blackout curtains and adjustable temperature controls, ensuring a serene environment for restful slumber.

As a distinctive touch to their nightly turndown service, instead of a tiny chocolate or cookie, guests get soaked almonds, believed to naturally support a deeper, more restorative sleep.

Hilton Shanghai lobby to illustrate article on "sleep tourism" programs in Asia and the Pacific_evelynkanter — Hilton photo: Shanghai City Center

Hilton Honors and BUND 31 ‘Sleep Concert’ Experience

Like other major urban destinations, Shanghai is busy, congested and loud.

Hilton in China has teamed up with the new BUND 31 Performing Arts Center in Shanghai to deliver a series of unique and extraordinary experiences, beginning with their pioneering ‘Sleep Concert’.

Held in a softly illuminated theater infused with the calming scent of lavender, participants relax on beds, don eye masks, and drift into tranquility accompanied by soothing natural sounds.

Like other major urban destinations, Shanghai is busy, congested and loud.

onors, the acclaimed loyalty program, allows over 195 million members who book directly with Hilton to accumulate Points for stays and access exclusive experiences beyond mere monetary value.

So where will you choose to sleep on your next getaway?

ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter is a journalist with 25+ years of experience as a newspaper and magazine writer, radio & TV news producer & reporter, and author of guidebooks and smartphone apps – all focusing on travel, automotive, the environment and your rights as a consumer.