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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.

Business Travel

Cultural Immersion Versus Appropriation

It's a difficult topic for the travel industry to discuss, especially as experiences get more immersive. But just because it can be uncomfortable doesn't mean we should shy away from confronting it and calling out bad behavior.
Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago
Business Travel

Is Luxury Hospitality Guilty of Cultural Appropriation?

Education delivered directly from local communities, and informed by tradition, is what distinguishes immersion from appropriation. It's the job of luxury professionals to facilitate the experience without adding the influence of their own lens.
Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago
Business Travel

How Millennials and Chinese Consumers Will Change Luxury Travel

Even if you think you've heard enough about millennials and Chinese consumers, it's worth keeping an eye on how both are reshaping the luxury travel industry — especially as brands are looking to target them in the coming years.
Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago
Business Travel

Millennials and Chinese Consumers Are Rewriting the Luxury Rulebook

The luxury goods market is going to be worth more than $450 billion by 2025 and many of its trends are relevant to travel as well. Younger consumers see brands in a different way than previous generations — and for them consistency is key.
Laura Powell | 7 years ago
Business Travel

The Winners and Losers in Accor's Loyalty Revamp

Hotel loyalty programs are evolving especially with new forms of accommodation coming online. Change is inevitable but that doesn't mean everyone is going to be happy.
Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago
Business Travel

What the Growth of Solo Travel Means for Luxury

With older people much more confident about travel than they were a couple of decades ago, it's perhaps understandable that they are happier to travel on their own.
Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago
Business Travel

Inside the Rise of Solo Luxury Adventure Tourism

Forget millennials. It's their parents who have the money and time to sign up for luxury experiences around the globe. With the aid of digital communications, going alone no longer feels like tragedy but an asset.
Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago
Business Travel

Royal Caribbean Places a Big Bet on Expedition Cruising

With expedition cruising set for serious growth over the next few years, it is understandable that one of the big cruise companies has decided to get more involved. The question now is will the others follow?
Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago
Business Travel

Taking Luxury Hotel Service to Sea

Hotel-cruise crossovers are pretty rare these days, so it will be interesting to see how the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection fares. Will the brand power be enough to entice land-lovers to take to water?
Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago