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.

Business Travel

Luxury Travel Agents See Demand for Vacations Based on Specific Themes

Luxury travel advisors tell us clients are getting super-specific when it comes to certain destinations. It seems "the same as everyone else" just doesn't cut it anymore.

Patrick Whyte | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Luxury Travel Is Becoming Even More Specialized

Here's a concept you are likely to hear more about soon: silo travel. It's all about going to a place for a very specific reason, and luxury travelers are all over it.

Laura Powell | 8 years ago

Business Travel

IHG Wants a Better High-End Offering

Growing the luxury side of the business is clearly a priority for newish CEO Keith Barr, and IHG does need another high-end offering to truly compete with the likes of Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons. We're wondering which brands IHG is looking at buying.

Patrick Whyte | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Thought Leadership Conferences Target High-End Travelers

Nowadays, luxury travel is all about discovering new frontiers. It's not just about expanding physical and geographic boundaries. The travel cognoscenti are "brain dating" around the world in order to stretch their minds.

Laura Powell | 8 years ago

Business Travel

The End-to-End Luxury Travel Experience Has Never Mattered More

The needs and wants of luxury travelers have evolved dramatically in recent years, which means the services looking to reach them need to offer a fully vetted, curated, and unique experience — this is especially true of sharing economy services.

Luxury Retreats + Skift | 8 years ago

Taking Personalization Up a Level

Wealthy tourists are happy to flash a helluva lot of cash to ensure what they are doing has rarely – if ever – been done before.

Patrick Whyte | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Targeting a New Microgeneration of Luxury Travelers

Just when you started having it up to here with ballyhooed buzzwords like millennials, authenticity and experiential travel, along comes J. Walter Thompson with a whole new compendium of marketing terminology. Let's see what sticks.

Laura Powell | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Can a Dedicated Wellness Cruise Line Really Succeed?

While wellness tourism might be growing in popularity, setting up a dedicated cruise line is another matter. First you've got to finance the venture, then you must convince consumers that you're a better bet than the existing lines.

Patrick Whyte | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Travel Megatrends 2018: Asian Travelers Create a Luxury Tipping Point

2018 will see greater numbers of Asian luxury travelers, but also greater challenges to meet more complex needs. As these travelers want to play in Asia, new high-end agencies are entering, while old ones are restructuring, creating new luxury divisions, or launching new luxury brands.

Raini Hamdi | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Luxury Brands Invest in Airport Pop-Ups to Reach Coveted Customer Base

Airports are the shopping malls of modern times and one of the most effective ways for luxury brands to engage target markets worldwide.

Samantha Shankman | 8 years ago