The 20 Most Sought-After Luxury Hotel Brands Worldwide


Skift Take

Although lifestyle hotels are trendy, hotel brands are wise to focus some of their marketing efforts on the luxury sector, where interest is heating up.

The global appetite for a luxury hotel experience and its subsequent price tag is growing, according to research from the Digital Luxury Group and Samad Laaroussi, the chair of luxury hospitality at Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne. Perhaps mirroring an improving global economy, global consumer interest in the luxury hospitality industry increased 7.7 percent from the one-year period July 2013 to June 2014 compared with a year earlier. The data are based on analy