Luxury Travel

Kessler Collection hands hotel operations to Highgate, keeping ownership to focus on expanding its boutique brands faster.

Emblems shows Accor’s soft-brand ambitions at the high end. It looks smart on paper, but it only adds value if Accor keeps it feeling selective.

Treating every interaction as an opportunity to make people feel seen and valued, a tenet of the bestselling book by Will Guidara, applies as much to meetings and incentives as it does to restaurants and hotels.

The smartest brands are learning to build for uncertainty.

The super-high end of hospitality has become its own ecosystem — one defined by absurd expectations, staggering personalization, and record-breaking business for those who can play the new game.

Capella wants enough hotels that wealthy travelers encounter the brand across continents, but few enough that each one still feels like a discovery. Not as simple as it sounds.

Once synonymous with excess, luxury has now become an expression of intention: the choice to spend time well. Today's affluent travelers value privacy, space, and emotional connection over status and…

Middle East travelers are blending faith, family, and digital sophistication to redefine what meaningful, modern travel looks like.

Mandarin Oriental is being taken private by its majority shareholder as part of a broader reset. The company is cutting real estate, revamping its brand, and aiming to scale more quickly.

At Skift Global Forum 2025, Global Hotel Alliance and Minor Hotels showed how a shared loyalty platform and carefully targeted expansion can help independent brands scale smarter in an unpredictable market.