Articles tagged “boutique hotels”

Boutique brands love to talk about authenticity and consistency. Surviving the majors’ loyalty programs is a different conversation.

RARE India's partnership with SAMHI Hotels is a measured bet on a familiar problem: how to build commercial infrastructure around a product that derives its value from resisting it. The opportunity lies in scaling access while preserving the experience — without standardizing it.

An Antler Room. Personal golf carts. A private observatory. These are not your average hotels.

IHCL is acquiring smaller chains to make the most of the hospitality boom in India. But it does not seem interested in overhauling how these chains actually operate as long as their models work.

Ian Schrager created culturally resonant boutique hotels for decades. He's back to prove he can scale the Public Hotels brand despite changing market dynamics.

Rosastays gives United Hospitality Management a foothold in the part of India’s hotel market that’s growing fastest. Sometimes the small stuff is the strategy.

Small Luxury Hotels is betting on India’s hinterland - bold, given even the tourism ministry is looking to crack this. But if anyone can send global elites road-tripping through Himachal, it’s those who built a business on charming tiny hotels in the middle of nowhere.

Death & Co., the cocktail establishment that helped ignite America's craft-cocktail renaissance, is rolling out a hotel brand. The goal is to make the bar the heart of the hotel, not just an afterthought.

For football icon Lionel Messi, the partnership allows his hotel brand to scale without the burden of direct management. For Meliá, there's a potential to turn athlete branding into long-term global growth.

Relais & Châteaux may one day have a loyalty program. But it won’t be because others do. It will be because they’ve found a way to make it fit their very specific model.