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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.

Maravillas Ranch
Business Travel

Ranchers Wrangle Luxury Travelers to Wide-Open Spaces

As we frequently report in Skift New Luxury, five-star accommodation is no longer confined to the hotel sector. Shipping containers, tiny homes, and tents are all being tricked out to satisfy the high-end traveler's need for novelty. And now, cowboy wannabes can even go posh by renting out a ranch.
Laura Powell | 6 years ago
Luxury

Is a Peloton Hotel Next?

Whether it’s travel companies looking to partner with fitness brands, private equity firms buying up exercise businesses, or new investors looking to pour money into fitness-tech startups, the outlook is rosy for the exercise industry.
Leslie Barrie | 6 years ago
Business Travel

Inside IHG's Plan to Rejuvenate Regent

For years Intercontinental Hotels Group lacked the brands to truly compete at the luxury end of the hotels market, but by buying Regent and Six Senses, it has totally transformed its high-end offering.
Patrick Whyte | 6 years ago
Business Travel

How California Plans to Target Big-Spending Middle East Tourists

Despite suffering from the Trump administration's travel bans, the Middle East is a target for Visit California. The region's luxury travelers are big spenders abroad and it makes sense for destinations to try and work out how best to capture some of that cash.
Patrick Whyte | 6 years ago
Golden Gate Bridge
Business Travel

California Leads U.S. Destinations' Efforts to Target the Middle East Luxury Traveler

In the effort to attract high-spending tourists, states often look overseas. That's a good idea — international visitors typically spend more than domestic travelers. But certain international markets present a more complicated consumer landscape than others. That's what Visit California has discovered as it starts wooing more travelers from the Middle East.
Laura Powell | 6 years ago
Luxury

Luxury Travelers Want to Spend on Self-Care

There’s now a wellness-themed trip out there for almost every traveler’s wants, whether that’s an ultra-exclusive self-care summit or an intense hiking tour in a remote locale. So it comes as no surprise that the already booming wellness industry is now benefiting from people hitting the road.
Leslie Barrie | 6 years ago