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.

Business Travel

Travel's Moment of Clarity: Sober Tourism Is a Real Business

There have always been travelers who don't drink, but the "sober curious" lifestyle movement has created a defined market of people who are eager for trips, tours, and experiences that aren't centered around alcohol. It's surprising that the travel industry has only just started to respond.

Rosie Spinks | 5 years ago

Luxury

Meditation Apps Battle for Airline Partners

If you think about it, airlines and meditation apps make a perfect pairing. Headspace currently has a stronghold when it comes to in-flight meditation, but the new Inscape and JetBlue partnership could chip away at its dominance.

Leslie Barrie | 5 years ago

Luxury

Luxury Gets a Status Boost From Cold Temperatures

Travel marketers need to think outside the box. The icebox, that is. A new research study reports that temperature can impact consumer perceptions of luxury and status.

Laura Powell | 5 years ago

Luxury

Cooler Temperatures Can Heighten Perception of Luxury

How consumers feel about luxury products may depend on how they feel. That is, whether they perceive something to be hot or cold.

Laura Powell | 5 years ago

Luxury

SoulCycle Launches Wellness Retreats to Keep Pace With a Shifting Market

SoulCycle is smart to try and cash in on the wellness retreat trend — and look for other ways to make money so it can keep up with Peloton. For that to happen, though, it’s going to need to garner a lot of interest.

Leslie Barrie | 5 years ago

Business Travel

SoulCycle's Move Into Retreats Will Test Loyalty of Its Spin Fanatics

Considering SoulCycle is a fitness company, it’s not outlandish to think it would want to get into the wellness retreat business. Whether it will actually earn enough of a profit from the trips to make it worth its while is another story.

Leslie Barrie | 5 years ago

Luxury

How Los Cabos is Transforming Luxury Tourism in Mexico

Today’s luxury travelers want the world at their fingertips. But not all destinations have managed to adapt their offerings to suit the demands of this new mindset. Now, thanks to its unique luxury-friendly amenities and a new brand positioning, the Los Cabos region of Mexico is emerging as a new luxury hotspot.

Los Cabos Tourism Board + Skift | 5 years ago

Luxury Travel Has to Make Sense of All 5 Senses

In the multisensory world of travel, it's surprising that it's taken so long for luxury operators to realize that appealing to all five senses is quite sensible.

Laura Powell | 5 years ago

Airlines

Case Studies in Wellness Tourism That Go Beyond the Spa: New Skift Research

Wellness tourism is here for the long term. Understanding what it is today can help stakeholders find their place in this booming sector.

Meghan Carty | 5 years ago

Hotels

What Luxe Hospitality Can Learn About Engaging the Senses From a Live-Fire Chef

The state of luxury is evolving and morphing. And the commonality of those who are forging resonant experiences is that they are looking outside of some of the tried-and-true formulas, mining heightened sensory territories that evoke something deeper in guests.

Colin Nagy | 5 years ago