Articles tagged “resorts”

Mass-market operators built all-inclusive on price and volume. Ennismore is trying to prove its lifestyle brands can carry the format upmarket.

The all-inclusive operator's executive chairman says he isn't selling the company, despite rumors, but is instead pouring tens of millions into properties to drive rate premiums.

Apple is turning Wallet from a place to store hotel keys into a live trip surface. Disney shows how far that could go when a pass starts carrying more of the trip.

Posadas called its own luxury-heavy signings a ‘red flag,’ and is rebalancing as a soft quarter hit its luxury hotels hardest.

With Lefay, Marriott aims to convince developers that a wellness-themed resort can command enough of a rate premium to justify a separate brand.

Cruises are carrying TUI’s results, but distribution is moving away from the web and toward apps and artificial intelligence.

Aman appears to be working on a third ultra-luxury hotel brand, Atma. The first U.S. hotel may have 185 suites, an unusually high room count for the group. Here's what Skift found by sleuthing.

Ascott is doing what global chains often preach but rarely practice: sticking to markets it actually understands. The company’s Asia-first strategy isn’t bold so much as obvious.

Rosewood's rebrand as a "discovery-led lifestyle forum" sounds like ChatGPT-powered consultant-speak. Strip away the jargon, though, and the underlying ads and employee training have a plausible, justifiable logic.

Luxury innovators Neil Jacobs (the former Six Senses CEO) and Alexandra Walterspiel (CEO of Sensei) slammed cookie-cutter hotels and resorts. They championed instead one-to-one service that reflects traveler values over egos.