Luxury Travel

Dorchester is as picky as its premier guests when it comes to its expansion and is more concerned with maintaining brand standards in major metropolises than snatching up luxurious properties in lesser-known locales.

Will Jetsetter be able to take off under new ownership or will the once-hot flash sale site be a flash in the pan?

Turning around as storied a hotel brand as Radisson will take time and money, but trying to do it using a different or related brand like Blu is a smarter way of doing it.

Acquisitions ran rampant last year as operators that couldn’t keep up brand standards were dropped and then picked up by brands looking to renovate the space, or left to become individually owned.

Guests have to pay standard room rates with the expectation of little more than free Wi-Fi, although their names appearing on the GM’s VIP list may be helpful if they don’t mind sucking up a little.

The variety of luxury hotels in Toronto portrays the diversity of its evolving neighborhoods with room décor as varied as chic boutique to black-and-white photos of the city’s top athletes.

Passengers no longer have to wonder what it would take to actually feel rested at the end of a flight -- all you have to do is become a head of state.

Looking for hotspots these days means mostly international, and that means growth hubs like China, and still very nascent Latin American market.

There's apparently no discussion of a global recession inside this convention, where suppliers and travel agents debate which river cruises and space travel options are best for the young and affluent clientele.

The Jumeirah group paid almost $425 million in 2005 for the property and spent millions refurbishing it and turning rooms into condos. The latest sale excludes most of those condos.