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.

Luxury

Five Types of Travelers Driving Premium Demand

Premium is evolving beyond a product category to become an entire ecosystem. Instead of chasing each other’s offers and upgrades, travel brands should leverage the premium economy through the lens of customers they already interact with.

ZS + Skift | 4 days ago

Highgate Takes Over Lotte’s New York Palace — How it Feeds the Next Deal

Buying and flipping broken hotels is lumpy and cyclical. Highgate's fees for third-party hotel management are a steady drip that keeps the lights on between the big, risky trades.

Sean O'Neill | 1 week ago

Hotels

One Year Into Private Equity Ownership, Soneva Is Rebranding — New CEO on What’s Changing

Where KSL is taking Soneva is firmly in the zeitgeist of what one segment of ultra-luxury travelers wants right now: less glitz, more optionality.

Sean O'Neill | 2 weeks ago

Luxury

Luxury Retail’s Hospitality Problem Isn’t a Training Problem

Saying luxury retail should be more hospitable ignores how most of the industry works.

Colin Nagy | 3 weeks ago

Hotels

Capella’s New President Wants to Crack Luxury’s Top Tier Within a Year

Capella’s pitch under its new president: scarce, personalized, and aiming for the top tier of ultra-luxury. The growth job goes to Patina.

Luke Martin | 1 month ago

Luxury

Luxury Brands Have Been Marketing to Humans. But Their Next Booking May Be AI.

Luxury brands have spent two decades optimizing for the human eye. A meaningful share of their traffic will soon belong to something else entirely.

Colin Nagy | 2 months ago

Luxury

Inside the $2.4 Billion Agency Powering Luxury Travel’s Elite Advisors

For years, Global Travel Collection's $2.4 billion in sales has been spread across legacy brands, masking its true scale. Its brand unification is a signal that scale is becoming the defining competitive advantage in luxury travel.

Global Travel Collection + Skift | 2 months ago

Steve Case’s Onefinestay Is Shedding Rentals to Chase Luxury Travelers: Exclusive

Onefinestay, a luxury vacation rental brand, will cede management of 200-plus homes to Veeve. The move is part of a tactical shift for a brand that had an urban and less exclusive tilt under its previous owner.

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago

Hotels

Hyatt and Airelles Win ‘White Lotus’ Season 4 — Four Seasons Is Out

Turns out three seasons were enough for Four Seasons.

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago

View from inside a luxury suite at a luxury hotel in Paris called Cheval Blanc Paris on a bright, sunny day. Looking out, big windows with the latest in luxury furniture.

Hotels

LVMH’s Bumpy Quarter: What War Impact Signals About Luxury Travel

The travel industry can glean signals from LVMH's quarterly results on how the Middle East conflict is reshaping demand for high-end travel and hospitality.

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago