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

SoulCycle Launches Wellness Retreats to Keep Pace With a Shifting Market

SoulCycle is smart to try and cash in on the wellness retreat trend — and look for other ways to make money so it can keep up with Peloton. For that to happen, though, it’s going to need to garner a lot of interest.

Leslie Barrie | 7 years ago

Business Travel

SoulCycle’s Move Into Retreats Will Test Loyalty of Its Spin Fanatics

Considering SoulCycle is a fitness company, it’s not outlandish to think it would want to get into the wellness retreat business. Whether it will actually earn enough of a profit from the trips to make it worth its while is another story.

Leslie Barrie | 7 years ago

Luxury

How Los Cabos is Transforming Luxury Tourism in Mexico

Today’s luxury travelers want the world at their fingertips. But not all destinations have managed to adapt their offerings to suit the demands of this new mindset. Now, thanks to its unique luxury-friendly amenities and a new brand positioning, the Los Cabos region of Mexico is emerging as a new luxury hotspot.

Los Cabos Tourism Board + Skift | 7 years ago

Luxury Travel Has to Make Sense of All 5 Senses

In the multisensory world of travel, it's surprising that it's taken so long for luxury operators to realize that appealing to all five senses is quite sensible.

Laura Powell | 7 years ago

Airlines

Case Studies in Wellness Tourism That Go Beyond the Spa: New Skift Research

Wellness tourism is here for the long term. Understanding what it is today can help stakeholders find their place in this booming sector.

Meghan Carty | 7 years ago

Hotels

What Luxe Hospitality Can Learn About Engaging the Senses From a Live-Fire Chef

The state of luxury is evolving and morphing. And the commonality of those who are forging resonant experiences is that they are looking outside of some of the tried-and-true formulas, mining heightened sensory territories that evoke something deeper in guests.

Colin Nagy | 7 years ago

Luxury

New Report: The State of Global Wellness Travel

We’re more connected than ever thanks to technology — but at the same time, it often feels like this connection hasn’t really amounted to much. Perhaps this ongoing search for connection — with nature, our communities, and ourselves — is what’s driving the rapid growth of wellness travel and tourism.

OCTAVE Institute + Skift | 7 years ago

Skift Trend Report:
The State of Global Wellness Travel

The massive growth of the global wellness tourism market How wellness tourism activities are blending the best of Eastern and Western cultures The wellness orientation of China and Southeast Asia…

OCTAVE Institute + Skift | 7 years ago

Can Fitbit Backed by Google’s Parent Take On Apple Watch?

If Alphabet does indeed buy Fitbit, it'll be great news for the tracking brand. To keep in step with Apple Watch, though, Fitbit will have to ramp up its innovation. Needless to say, Alphabet has its work cut out for it.

Leslie Barrie | 7 years ago

Airlines

Defining a New Era of Wellness Tourism: Latest Skift Research

Wellness has long been an important part of the travel experience, but it has just recently exploded as a full-fledged trend. Travel industry stakeholders looking to attract wellness-minded consumers need to understand what wellness tourism means today in order to successfully find a place within it.

Meghan Carty | 7 years ago