Group Fitness in Europe

In 2012, EuropeActive started to systematically conduct research on multiple topics in the

health and fitness sector. The first publication in this series was the book titled The state of

research in the global fitness industry. This publication was based on a systematic search and

review, summarising 5,348 studies in total.

In 2018, the most comprehensive study on personal training in Europe was published by

EuropeActive and Edelhelfer (Gronau and Titze, 2018). This s...

HORIZON 2030

The future of the health and fitness sector

In the decade that just has come to an end, the European fitness market (based on EuropeActive & Deloitte data) has seen tremendous growth. The total number of members active in our 62,000 facilities grew from 37 million in 2008 to 62,2 million in 2018, a growth of 68% in a decade, or almost 7% per annum on average.

These numbers illustrate that the changes in market size have been enormous. But not just in size. This exponential grow...