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

The End-to-End Luxury Travel Experience Has Never Mattered More

The needs and wants of luxury travelers have evolved dramatically in recent years, which means the services looking to reach them need to offer a fully vetted, curated, and unique experience — this is especially true of sharing economy services.

Luxury Retreats + Skift | 7 years ago

Taking Personalization Up a Level

Wealthy tourists are happy to flash a helluva lot of cash to ensure what they are doing has rarely – if ever – been done before.

Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago

Business Travel

Targeting a New Microgeneration of Luxury Travelers

Just when you started having it up to here with ballyhooed buzzwords like millennials, authenticity and experiential travel, along comes J. Walter Thompson with a whole new compendium of marketing terminology. Let's see what sticks.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

Business Travel

Can a Dedicated Wellness Cruise Line Really Succeed?

While wellness tourism might be growing in popularity, setting up a dedicated cruise line is another matter. First you've got to finance the venture, then you must convince consumers that you're a better bet than the existing lines.

Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago

Business Travel

Travel Megatrends 2018: Asian Travelers Create a Luxury Tipping Point

2018 will see greater numbers of Asian luxury travelers, but also greater challenges to meet more complex needs. As these travelers want to play in Asia, new high-end agencies are entering, while old ones are restructuring, creating new luxury divisions, or launching new luxury brands.

Raini Hamdi | 7 years ago

Business Travel

Luxury Brands Invest in Airport Pop-Ups to Reach Coveted Customer Base

Airports are the shopping malls of modern times and one of the most effective ways for luxury brands to engage target markets worldwide.

Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago

Business Travel

Wellness Programs Help Luxury Travel Connect Mind, Body and Vacations

The wellness concept has enticed the luxury travel industry. Many of today's high-end travelers want something more than just first-class flights and a fancy hotel -- and there are plenty of companies out there happy to service that need.

Patrick Whyte | 7 years ago

Business Travel

The Definition of Luxury Is Being Reshaped by Changing Consumer Behavior

Luxury is in the midst of a metamorphosis. While luxury once meant the most expensive or most well-known product or experience, today it's become a way of being or moving throughout the world.

Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago

Business Travel

Wellness Activities Will Have Strong Ties With Luxury Travel in 2018

The luxury travel market is often a starting point for themes that may, on first glance, seem a little bit out there. But given that some crazes withstand the test of time, it's worth assessing which ones might have staying power.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

Luxury

Colombia’s Natural Wonders Attract a New Generation of Luxury Travelers

Tourism in Colombia has surged in recent years, partly thanks to the fact that tourism leaders are positioning the country as a leading destination for nature and outdoor adventure experiences.

ProColombia + Skift | 7 years ago