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.

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Environmental Sustainability Is the Next Frontier in Luxury Travel

Environmental sustainability will be the mark of luxury as we move into the future with discerning customers demanding that the businesses they patronize do everything possible to mitigate their impact.

Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago

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How Trends Evolve and Shape Consumer Travel Habits

Focusing on current micro-trends will allow prescient travel businesses to get a leg up on the competition. The key, though, is distinguishing between a micro-trend and a fad.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

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How to Create a Better Brand Extension for Luxury Travel Consumers

Is affordable luxury an oxymoron? Do luxury products risk diluting their images by brand extensions? We speak with a global branding expert about the underpinnings of luxury brands.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

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How Monte Carlo Embraces Change for a New Luxury Customer

Monte Carlo might be known for its traditional luxury offering, but a deeper look shows a hospitality group that's keenly aware of its positioning, the changing market and how it must adapt to ensure a spot of the ultra-wealthy's jet set itineraries.

Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago

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Travel Journalists Pivot to Custom Luxury Travel Planning

Another high-end, membership-based travel consultancy opens up shop. We wonder how these businesses will distinguish themselves as competition grows in the realm of "curating bespoke experiential localized" travel.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

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India’s Luxury Sector Poised for Exponential Growth

India is ready for a jump in luxury travel, but it will need to catch up in terms of the accommodations and services that it can offer while also being conscious that local residents, not just multinationals, benefit from this growth.

Samantha Shankman | 7 years ago

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Ritz-Carlton Enters the Luxury Cruise Business With 3 Custom Yachts

We've seen both luxury hotel and luxury cruise companies develop private jet products recently, but only one hotel brand is currently taking its moniker to sea. This is easily the most interesting thing the otherwise traditional Ritz-Carlton has ever done.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

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BMW Picks Butterfield & Robinson as Its Exclusive European Tour Operator

European car pick ups have been a thing for decades now, but BMW's move to add B&R to the mix is an additional selling point for the right kind of traveler.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

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What the Growing Market for Luxury Goods Tells the Travel Industry

There's good and bad in this report. Spending will continue, of course, but it is shifting into new markets and leaving some legacy markets in the lurch.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

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How to Tell the Difference Between Luxury and Affluent Travelers

The quick takeaway: Not all wealthy U.S. travelers travel the same way.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago