Articles tagged “boutique hotels”

Balcone di Giulietta in Verona is a romantic spot for Valentine's Day. Yet it's also a high-design "network hotel" that lacks a lobby or a breakfast room but has close ties to local venues.

What is it like to work with your father to create and run a luxury boutique brand when you're new to hotel operations? Hint: It can be messy.

Billionaire Petter Stordalen's new hotel in Oslo, Sommerro, and his soon-to-open sister property, Villa Inkognito, are noteworthy. They take the experiential travel trend in new directions.

The boutique brand AlmaLusa is betting that more tourists want to stay in places that deeply reflect Portuguese culture. It's testing whether luxury travelers care about authenticity rather than just location and amenities when picking hotels.

Ace Hotels has had a significant impact on the hotel industry, helping change the way brands look to attract younger travelers. Here are five important moments in its evolution that we've covered as it prepares now to be acquired by Sortis Holdings.

Ace only has about a dozen properties, but it has punched above its weight in brand impact. Here's our analysis of whether Sortis is a good home and if $85 million is a good price.

It's no small feat for Loes Dingemans to grow a boutique hotel chain to six properties during a pandemic. But she may face high barriers to expanding the Pillows brand across Europe.

Sustainable, high-end nature lodges have been popping up worldwide. Making the concept succeed in Italy, however, may be a challenge, given that it has to out-compete so many established attractions.

Ah, the challenges of delivering quirkiness at scale.

Demand for “small, mindful" travel is supposedly on the upswing, and Small Luxury Hotels of the World is looking to take advantage. But can the marketing organization move the needle in the shadow of giant hotel groups?