NCL’s Walk for Wellness Challenge is back baby, and it’s bigger than ever. Coinciding with several October mental health initiatives, this inspiring and uplifting industry walking challenge gives you 31 days to boost your spirits, upgrade your wellbeing, and connect across the travel community. Yes please, sign me up!
Originally borne amid the 2020 lockdowns, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) encouraged travel partners across Australia and New Zealand to ‘Walk for Wellness’. When upheaval was more common than upgrades, NCL’s initiative was a welcome reminder to place emphasis on our mind, body, and soul as we sailed uncharted waters. Being so well received and popular this led to a continuation of the walk again in 2021, much to everyone’s delight.
In 2022, the challenge’s third year, it’s helpful with the opposite problem: the positive and almost manic return to cruising! As things have ramped back up, has your self-care dwindled?
Take the pressure off
While every month should be a wellness month, life often gets in the way, thanks to invoices, screaming kids, laundry and the like. The pressures of the everyday person in 2022 ($9 lettuce, anyone?) makes NCL’s Walk for Wellness Challenge a no-brainer to sign up for.
NCL’s timing this year is more important that ever: World Mental Health Day is 10 October; it’s Mental Health Month in NSW, VIC and the ACT; there’s a dedicated Mental Health Week in QLD, SA, VIC, and WA. In short, this October is the best time to reclaim your wellbeing.
Which is why we’re super amped to be involved! On NCL’s dedicated Walk for Wellness app, you can track your steps as you get active. While we may not be walking as one merry crowd, together we journey virtually aboard the all-new Norwegian Spirit’s inaugural journey to New Zealand.
Departing Hawai’i, join your fellow peers (last year more than 900 agents participated!) as we sail through French Polynesia and the South Pacific, and on to Australia and New Zealand. If there’s ever a more exciting journey to inspire you to get your sneakers on and get outside, it’s this one.
Virtually walk on water & WIN!
While we think it’s motivating enough to join in and Walk for Wellness, NCL’s virtual milestones and fun weekly challenges that encourage industry interactions get us hyped! Especially as the whole journey takes place against the backdrop of such an epic virtual voyage.
Where you actually walk is up to you. Take time in nature to get those steps in, walk the kids 15 times around the block, heck, jump on one of those desk treadmills if you have one. The key thing here is to move yo body!
If you need extra bribes (ahem, encouragement) to get yo body moving, however, how about the chance to win over $16,000 worth of prizes? NCL’s highest value prize pool ever! We’d walk for three months to have a chance to win the main prize of a cruise onboard Norwegian Spirit’s inaugural sailing, in an Oceanview stateroom, departing from Sydney 22 December 2022! Like we said, sign us up!
Want to see who won what last year? Check this out!
Sign up to Walk for Wellness Now
If 2022 has snuck up on you (like, how is it September already?), it’s time to prioritise your mental health and wellbeing. This busy (and exciting) cruise revival is showing no signs of slowing down, so this is your opportunity to Walk for Wellness and reclaim balance in your life.
Whether you’re a travel agent or a travel industry peer, all are welcome to unite for this brilliant initiative. To take part in the third annual NCL Walk for Wellness Challenge, register here by 30 September. Everything you need to know to get started is on the landing page, plus once you register you can download the handy and free NCL app.
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