Articles tagged “membership clubs”

Tourism

Understanding China’s Current Travel Boom

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at hotel CEO pay, profiting from China's travel boom, and the tricky business of private clubs and hotels.

Rashaad Jorden | 6 months ago

Understanding China’s Current Travel Boom

Hotels

Gansevoort Hotel Adds Members Club: Founder’s Lessons To NOT ‘Hemorrhage Money’

It's rare for boutique hoteliers to share lessons learned the hard way, at least in public. Kudos to Michael Achenbaum, creator of The Gansevoort in New York, for revealing some missteps to avoid when adding a members club to a hotel.

Sean O'Neill | 6 months ago

Gansevoort Hotel Adds Members Club: Founder’s Lessons To NOT ‘Hemorrhage Money’

Online Travel

The Best-Compensated Online Travel CEOs

With a discussion with Executive Editor Dennis Schaal, today's special edition of Skift's daily podcast goes deeper into our annual list of best-compensated online travel CEOs.

Rashaad Jorden | 7 months ago

The Best-Compensated Online Travel CEOs

Hotels

Cracking the Code for a New Wave of Members Clubs

There is a boom in private clubs around the world. But, in the race to garner members and open outlets, personalized service and the underlying craft have gone missing. True hospitality plus thoughtful social and commercial dot-connecting remains a nice open white space.

Colin Nagy, Skift | 7 months ago

Cracking the Code for a New Wave of Members Clubs

Hotels

Soho House Wants Members to Buy Extras in Path to Unlocking Profits

Know what's cool? Having cool people join your member's clubs. Know what's even cooler? Having members buy your high-margin upsells, like food and skincare products.

Sean O'Neill | 7 months ago

Soho House Wants Members to Buy Extras in Path to Unlocking Profits

Hotels

IHG’s Six Senses Is Adding Luxury Global Membership Clubs

Six Senses CEO Neil Jacobs would like to multiply consumers' encounters with his brand beyond occasional hotel and resort stays. A potential paid membership product would let luxury travelers hop among new clubs, building on a model Soho House has popularized.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 8 months ago

IHG’s Six Senses Is Adding Luxury Global Membership Clubs

News Blog

Inspirato and Saks Enter Into Marketing Pact Mixing Travel and Fashion

Would you like a luxury travel subscription from Inspirato with those Amina Muaddi Rosie 95MM Metallic Leather Slingback Pumps from Saks Fifth Avenue? Saks Stylists will mix pitches to buy Inspirato Passes with style recommendations under a partnership between the companies. Source: Saks That could conceivably be a sales pitches as Inspirato entered into a…

Dennis Schaal | 9 months ago

News Blog

Soho House Parent Changes Name to, Surprise, Soho House & Co.

Membership Collective Group is best known for its Soho House upscale member’s clubs and hotels and for being unprofitable for decades. The London-based company wants to change both of those things, it said during a Wednesday earnings call. In a few weeks, it will change its name to Soho House & Co., and its executives said they have…

Sean O'Neill | 9 months ago

News Blog

Soho House Founder to Retire From CEO Role; Company Cutting Back Growth Ambitions

Nick Jones said on Wednesday that he would step down from being CEO of Membership Collective Group nearly three decades since he founded the original Soho House that eventually led to the creation of the public company and owner of the Soho House chain. Andrew Carnie, president of Membership Collective Group, will succeed Jones as…

Sean O'Neill | 1 year ago

News Blog

Hapi Travel Launches Subscription Service for the U.S. Market

Subscription travel platform Hapi Travel Destinations has launched in the U.S. More brands are building paid travel subscriptions, powered by shifts in traveler priorities and work-life flexibility, but Hapi Travel also wants to expand by offering "additional income in the new gig economy." A subsidiary of direct-sell specialist Sharing Services Global Corporation, it plans to…

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago