Luxury

This comprehensive archive offers the latest insights, trends, and developments in the luxury travel industry, tailored specifically for professionals and stakeholders in the field. Featuring in-depth analysis and updates on hotels, tours, airlines, and cruise lines, the news stories in this collection provide essential information for those seeking to stay ahead in this rapidly-evolving market.

Hotels

How Luxury Hospitality Is Tackling Conservation Efforts Globally

These days, it's not just one-off luxury properties that are investing in conservation projects. More companies see the value in protecting and restoring the land they're situated on, and ones that don't may be left behind.

Leslie Barrie | 5 years ago

Business Travel

Can Luxury Hospitality Play a Key Role in Land Conservation?

Outside of Africa where poaching, forestry, and resource exploitation can also threaten wildlife habitats, luxury hospitality leaders are playing a role in protecting land and creating opportunities around conservation.

Samantha Shankman | 5 years ago

Ground Transport

The 2020 Innovators in Travel and Hospitality: Winter Edition

Twice a year, this column looks at who is doing it right. Here are some of the most inspiring innovations in design, service, and guest experience in hospitality and travel. Let the debates begin.

Colin Nagy | 5 years ago

Hotels

How Certifying a Hotel's Wellness Bonafides Could Shake Up the Industry

Right now, a hotel can offer guests lemon water at check-in and call itself a wellness property. A new wellness certification might raise the bar for that distinction and help legitimize the industry.

Leslie Barrie | 5 years ago

Hotels

Are Hotels Ready for Wellness Certification?

As the new decade begins, it’s becoming more apparent to the travel industry that the well-being of the individual is intrinsically tied to the well-being of the environment. That’s why we are starting to see hospitality companies looking into getting certified for wellness.

Laura Powell | 5 years ago

Hotels

A Wish List for Hospitality and Travel in 2020

In 2020, the stakes for innovation and being customer-centric are higher than ever. Here are some gaps, opportunities, and much-needed prescriptions to improve travel and hospitality.

Colin Nagy | 5 years ago

Business Travel

CEO Ninan Chacko Is Out at Travel Leaders Group

Ninan Chacko's abrupt exit as CEO of Travel Leaders Group elicited "wows" across the travel industry when people heard the news. The reasons behind his departure, and what new strategy controlling shareholder Certares Management has in mind is mere speculation for now.

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Business Travel

A New Market for On-Demand Luxury Fashion Delivers

Rental is the future of fashion, and the trend could transform how we pack and plan for upcoming trips. What businesses are ready to serve the demand?

Samantha Shankman | 5 years ago

Luxury

Dubai's Demand for Niche Spiritual Retreats on the Rise

Spiritual retreats have become all the rage in Dubai as the wellness travel industry continues to grow, particularly across developing markets. Tailored experiences may be the key to the growth of this niche market, as more mindful travelers are now seeking exclusivity and holistic healing methods.

Reem Abdellatif | 5 years ago

Luxury

When Luxury and Wellness Travel Collide

Wellness and luxury travel overlap in more ways than one — like when high-end hospitality companies start to offer more niche travel experiences. Expect more overlap in 2020.

Leslie Barrie | 5 years ago