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Tom Marchant on getting off the tourist trail

By Holly Friend 06 : 11 : 2017 Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

The co-founder of luxury travel agency Black Tomato on excessive tourism, competing with the internet and his brand’s move into wellness.

Tom Marchant on getting off the tourist trail

Leisurewear’s circular future:

Jun Kamei, founder and CEO of UK-based Amphico, on how material innovation will accelerate the leisure sector’s move to a sustainable...

Leisure : Sustainability : Materials

Future Forecast 2023: Travel & Hospitality:

The future of the travel and hospitality sector is a challenging one, but those brands and services that allow individuals to enjoy the...

Sustainability : Travel & Hospitality : Luxury

The longevity clinic of tomorrow:

Anna Bjurstam, wellness pioneer at hospitality brand Six Senses, discusses how its luxury longevity clinic RoseBar aims to redefine the...

Health : Wellness : Longevity

Travel-proofing beauty and wellness rituals:

Kate Cervini, CEO and founder of 100mL, discusses how the beauty and wellness sectors can better serve the modern traveller.

Beauty : Travel & Hospitality : Luxury

Airborne Stays:

A new category of travel experiences is taking off and catering for a growing appetite for air-scapism – airborne cruises where the...

Luxury : Travel & Hospitality : Technology

The Awe Economy:

Brands are harnessing the science behind awe to create experiences that invoke wonder and awaken self-transcendence.

Travel & Hospitality : Design : Architecture

Automotive Accommodation:

With global car sales in decline, premium automotive brands are entering the property market, using car-branded condos to diversify...

Mobility : Travel & Hospitality : Luxury

Guilded Luxury:

As the world enters a period of economic downturn, luxury brands are seizing strategies to build long-lasting and enriching...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

State of Luxury: Thailand:

As Thailand works to recapture its pre-pandemic tourism levels, the country is investing to become a premier luxury travel destination.

Luxury : Thailand : Hospitality

Why hotel rooms are the next retail frontier:

Brands are augmenting the guest experience by turning hotel and rentals into immersive storefronts, ushering in a long-awaited revival...

Travel & Hospitality : Retail : Hotels

Recuperative Tourism Market:

The healthification of the travel and hospitality sector has grown to encompass everything from recovery to medical intervention.

Travel & Hospitality : Luxury : Health & Wellness

Crypto-tels:

In a bid to bolster loyalty, appeal to a new demographic and extend market opportunity, hoteliers are diversifying their operations to...

Hotels : Travel & Hospitality : NFTs

The future of hospitality lies in nurturing local talent:

Harsha L’Acqua, the founder of hospitality training venture Saira Hospitality, explores how the sector is nurturing the next generation...

Travel : Travel And Hospitality : Tourism

Pet Hospitality:

After the pandemic pet boom, new owners are ready to travel again and looking for animal-friendly spaces to ease their pet-ernal anxiety.

Pets : Hospitality : Retail

Futures 100 Innovators : April:

The fourth instalment of our Futures 100 Innovators spotlights people designing hotel ambience, making alcohol healthier and uplifting...

Futures100 Innovators : F100 : Beauty

Why hotels are the next frontier for brands:

From streetwear hotels to decadent souvenirs, brands across sectors are embedding themselves in hospitality’s long-awaited comeback.

Hotels : Travel : Tourism

What’s next for luxury home ownership? Nomadism:

John Andrew Entwistle, founder of premium travel network Wander, envisages a future when people will roam the world for the same price...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Hotel Bar Market:

No longer coming second place to the wider hospitality experience, hotel bars are grabbing attention – and spending – by becoming...

Hotel : Travel : Hospitality

Futures 100 Innovators : March:

In our third instalment of Futures 100 Innovators, we spotlight the individuals transforming wellness UX, fighting food inequality and...

Futures 100 Innovators : Beauty : Design

Neo-collectivism:

Society is facing a mass re-organisation. United by values of empathy and community, consumers are shunning individualism in favour of...

Society : Retail : Workplace

Biomimicry Hotels:

Giving back to the land they have historically taken from, these regenerative hotels are being built by their natural environments –...

Sustainability : Travel & Hospitality : Luxury

Futures 100 Innovators : February:

In our second instalment of Futures 100 Innovators, we spotlight the people democratising Web3, giving voices to disabled youth and...

Futures 100 Innovators : Beauty : Food

How can hotels become community-centric?:

Using a hotel as a moniker for civic infrastructure, Amahra Spence, co-founder of MAIA Group, imagines how hospitality can be reshaped...

Hospitality : Travel : Leisure

Futures 100 Innovators : January:

Welcome to the Futures 100 Innovators, our annual longlist of global innovators and disruptors creating the future across 10 sectors.

Futures 100 Innovators : Beauty : Food

Humanity Hospitality:

Alternative hospitality networks that prioritise care over profit are emerging in response to the corporatisation of home-sharing models.

Travel : Hospitality : Hotel

The airports bringing humanity back into travel:

As the travel sector re-invents itself, airports are doing the same. From Kansas to Mexico, these are the aviation hubs elevating...

Travel : Retail : Airports

Decadence Hotels:

Hedonism is creeping into the hospitality space, as hotels expose the sense of debauchery and self-indulgence that their private...

Travel : Hospitality : Wellness

Traveltainment Market:

With travel burdened by bureaucracy for too long, brands are designing escapes that seamlessly blend tourism and entertainment to make...

Travel : Entertainment : Hospitality

What will 2022 hold for travel?:

From the return of China’s tourism economy to decarbonising the industry, experts made key predictions for 2022 at this year’s World...

Travel : Hospitality : Sustainability

The destinations living our slow tourism future:

Decelerated tourism is rapidly becoming a reality, as destinations adjust their travel marketing and take tactical approaches to...

Travel : Hospitality : Sustainability

Travel in 2030: Slow Honeymoons:

In this fictional future scenario, we meet Ming and Hui, a Generation Z couple who are struggling to balance their climate commitments...

Travel : Sustainability

Data-driven Escapes:

Designing expertly tailored experiences for travellers, media and technology brands are harnessing their consumer insights to power the...

Travel : Travel And Hospitality : Technology

Sideline Studios:

With the Creator Economy booming, broadcast studios are becoming an essential element in future residential, hospitality and leisure...

Media : Media And Entertainment : Technology

Can hotels become the towns of the future?:

By providing a blueprint for future living, Tara Medina and Andrés Saavedra, co-founders of

Travel : Workplace : Hospitality

Travel Agents Revisited:

In a fragmented tourism landscape, people are opting out of complex travel planning and hiring experts to navigate their future trips...

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Five comeback campaigns re-igniting travel:

From galvanising homebodies to shattering Zoom fatigue, these are the destinations enticing tourists back to their shores with...

Travel : Tourism : Advertising

How to target next-generation leisure-seekers:

Jade Akintola, founder of ITA Leisure, is elevating the outdoor goods market with a brand that lies at the intersection of nature,...

Travel : Tourism : Leisure

Expat Experiences:

As people swap short-term holidays for long-term relocations, travel brands are shifting their focus from tourists to an upcoming influx...

Travel : Hospitality : Workplace

Explore the next global luxury hotspots:

Five global locations are offering fresh opportunities in the inter-Covid era, as luxury brands and high-end hospitality put down...

Luxury : Covid-19 : Travel

Athletic Tourism Market:

Combatting sedentary lifestyles, travel industry leaders are making a play for active travellers by placing sports and fitness at the...

Travel : Hospitality : Hotel

The patriotic future of Chinese travel:

Closed to tourists until 2022, domestic travel is an important engine of growth for China, where travellers are raring to rediscover...

Travel : China : Tourism

Five brands elevating the outdoor leisure market:

As outdoor activities become more than just an occasional pastime, brands are reviving apparel and equipment with energetic palettes...

Travel : Leisure : Fashion

Wanderlust Beauty:

With consumers itching for escape, the sectors of beauty and travel are intersecting in new ways, tapping into our sunny holiday fantasies.

Travel : Beauty : Marketing

The future of luxury lies in escapism:

Author and analyst Erwan Rambourg is positively bullish about what lies ahead for the sector, sharing insights from his latest book,...

Luxury : Travel : Health & Wellness

Rail Travel Re-ignited:

As flying shame and a desire for slower travel take root among consumer mindsets, the ease and romanticism of train travel are reviving...

Travel : Transport : Sustainability

Why post-pandemic travel needs a loyalty upgrade:

The travel industry has been reset. With a post-vaccine boom on the horizon, it’s time for travel and hospitality brands to upgrade...

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Elastic Architecture:

Environmental crises have led architects to design adaptive buildings that can morph in line with the needs of our communities and planet.

Architecture : Travel : Sustainability

Inter-Covid Roadmap 2021 Webinar:

One year on from the first European lockdowns, this webinar looks at what new opportunities await global brands and businesses in the...

Covid-19 : Society : Health

Building hotels that uplift Black culture:

The co-founder and chief innovation officer of Homage, a growing US hotel chain, are centring the Black hospitality experience on rest,...

Hospitality : Leisure : Music

Black History Travel Market:

Around the world, Black people are using travel experiences as a way to heal from recent traumas and gain new perspectives on their...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Five future voices of community-first travel:

From Malaysia to Mexico, these innovators are re-establishing the meaning of community and placemaking in an industry devastated by the...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Post-conscious Travel:

Sustainable travel has been bastardised. A new wave of innovators are trading in buzzwords to redefine what it means to travel consciously.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Inter-Covid Roadmap 2021:

With the Covid-19 vaccine rollout offering a chance to rebuild our societies and economies, a host of new opportunities await brands and...

Covid-19 : Society : Health

It’s time for a regenerative travel revolution:

Conscious tourism is no longer enough. Amanda Ho, co-founder of Regenerative Travel, explains why travel brands should adopt a model of...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Next-gen Camping Market:

No longer associated with budget family holidays or seasoned adventurers, the camping experience is evolving, led by new demographics...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

The destinations betting on digital nomad futures:

With the pandemic showing people that they no longer need to work in an office to be productive, countries are now launching visa...

Travel : Tourism : Workplace

Why hospitality’s success lies in small cities:

Mario Tricoci, co-founder of Aparium, explains why business is booming at his local-first luxury hotels and why the brand was prepared...

Hotel : Travel : Luxury

The media-tels merging hospitality with tech:

With the worlds of technology and travel increasingly colliding, media-infused hotels are enhancing services and providing next-gen...

Hospitality : Travel : Tourism

Anti-travel Airlines:

Under pressure to diversify revenue streams, airlines are creating customer experiences that aren’t limited by travel restrictions.

Travel : Airlines : Tourism

Aerial wants to simplify travel carbon offsetting:

Aerial app co-founder Andreas Homer on his ambition to make tracking our travel carbon footprint as intuitive as counting calories or...

Travel : Sustainability : Hospitality

Scattered Schools:

With remote studying the new norm, school is becoming something that is no longer a physical space but a dispersed learning experience.

Youth : Generation Z : Travel

Wandering Workers:

With business travel grounded in 2020, the travel industry is exploring fresh directions in Bleisure and business stays that inspire...

Travel : Hospitality : Hotel

Ephemeral Hotels:

With experience-collecting guests concerned about their travel footprint, hoteliers are now helping to alleviate their worries by...

Hospitality : Travel : Luxury

Whisper Networks:

Luxury brands are focusing on invitation-only, experience-led micro-communities to uphold an aura of exclusivity in the

Luxury : Media : Technology

Omnilux Lifestyles:

The luxury experience of the future will no longer rely on tactile human-to-human moments, but anytime attainment, anywhere in the...

Luxury : Hospitality : Travel

Neighbourhood Tourism Market:

With the hospitality sector forced to accept a long-term drop in tourism, it's turning its attention towards local citizens.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

What’s next for Millennial family travel?:

Sara Clemence, co-founder of family travel network The Expedition, explains how nomadic lifestyles could shape the future of...

Travel : Millennials : Gen Alpha

Sensory Destinations:

As tourism emerges from a period of adversity, marketers are selling the sensorial nature of travel to consumers overwhelmed by screens.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Chinese Travel Market:

With Chinese consumers keen to unleash their pent-up spending power, tourism brands are innovating to restore consumer trust in travelling.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Inter-Covid hospitality:

Amid a tourism drought, hotels are repurposing their vacant rooms to cater for consumers seeking shelter, safety and privacy.

Hospitality : Travel : Health

Pandemic Dining Market:

As they respond to the coronavirus, restaurateurs have an opportunity to redesign future dining spaces and reclaim their role in the...

Restaurants : Covid-19 : Food & Drink

Anti-social Sanctuaries:

Reclaiming their liberation, affluent consumers are paying a premium for travel and dining services that promise total seclusion.

Luxury : Hospitality : Travel

Imagination Travel:

The virtual travel market of our post-pandemic future will swap clunky technology and headsets for the power of human imagination.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

A home-sharing revolution for a post-Covid world:

Martin Rosengaard, co-founder of Human Hotel, on how inner-city adventures and serendipitous home-sharing will shape post-pandemic travel.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Four ways travel brands can become pandemic-proof:

With the tourism industry on pause for the foreseeable future, explore four strategies to help travel and hospitality brands survive...

Travel : Hospitality : Covid-19

The State of Luxury: Vietnam:

With a burgeoning affluent middle class, Vietnam is entering a new era of luxury, bolstered by high-end developments and experience-led...

Luxury : Travel : Retail

The Covid-19 pandemic will reshape travel as we know it:

Travel has become meaningless. Now, the Covid-19 pandemic has granted travel brands an opportunity to contemplate – and moralise –...

Travel : Hospitality : Covid-19

Webinar: Covid-19 Future Planning:

A 30-minute webinar examining the pandemic’s impact across key sectors, and the steps to future-proof strategies for your organisation...

Society : Covid-19 : Retail

Covid-19 Contingency Planning:

Learn the immediate impacts of Covid-19 across key sectors, and discover best-in-class case studies and future considerations for your...

Covid-19 : Society : Health

Why travel could become a one-trip industry:

Yvonne Küpper of FairAway Travel, on travel brands’ sustainable responsibilitis, the impact of Covid-19, and how to avoid greenwashing.

Travel Experience : Travelling : Tourism

Before & After Travel:

Travel and hospitality brands are future-proofing their customer relationships by providing services to elevate the pre- and post-trip...

Travel : Hospitality : Hotel

Co-mmunity Spaces:

New hospitality spaces are drawing inspiration from co-working and members’ clubs with hybrid offerings that mix work, play and rest...

Workplace : Society : Hospitality

Romance Travel Reignited:

Romantic escapes are undergoing a systemic shift to cater for more fluid relationships, a modern desire for intimacy and heightened...

Travel : Hospitality : Society

Voyage Apparel:

Clothing and accessories brands are catering for Liberated Luxurians with new collections and services for ever-more peripatetic...

Luxury : Fashion : Travel

Hoteliers must embrace the rise of non-monogamy:

Retreats for more than two will emerge as people begin to take up multiple relationships or seek connections with various partners.

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

How to engage the Chinese travellers of tomorrow:

Will Zhuang, Chinese ambassador for VisitYork and VisitLeeds, on how brands are re-imagining British culture for a new generation of...

Food : Travel : Tourism

Psychedelic Wellness Market:

Psychedelics are being reframed as the wellness sector explores their transformative potential for mental wellbeing, retreats and...

Wellness : Travel : Medicine

Togetherness Travel:

With modern families and friends dispersed across the world, people are turning to travel as a way to stay physically connected.

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Young Nativists:

Generation Z are reconnecting with their indigenous roots, seeking communities and travel experiences that preserve ancestral...

Youth : Travel : Hospitality

Baby Boomer Travel Market:

Highly independent and driven by a hunger for knowledge, the over-55s are becoming a crucial target market for travel brands.

Travel : Baby Boomers : Hospitality

Tourism Decelerated:

With travellers exhausted by overcrowding, homogenised sights and a sea of smartphones, a counter-movement of slow tourism is gathering...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Five emerging travel destinations in 2020:

From Red Sea retreats to nomadic Mongolian adventures, in 2020 travellers will journey to these unexpected countries for unique...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

Georgia Travel Market:

Award-winning hotels, a liberal youth population and sommelier-approved wine tourism are luring culturally curious travellers to the...

Travel : Tourism : Hospitality

The future of hospitality is contemplative spaces:

Design Hotels founder Claus Sendlinger on how physical spaces can alter urban consumers’ sense of being in times of haste and...

Hospitality : Hotels : Travel

Staycation Market:

With carbon emissions at the forefront of travellers’ minds, a resurgence of the domestic travel market and the high-end staycation is...

Travel : Hospitality : Sustainability

Liberation Luxury:

As global wealth fluctuates, a new mindset is emerging centred on curiosity, flexibility and footloose living. In order to meet these...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Eco Clubs:

Eco-anxious clubbers are inspiring venue owners and festivals to consider cleaner, more sustainable practices to protect the environment.

Travel : Sustainability : Leisure

Brand Innovation Debrief: KLM:

With the launch of its in-house innovation hub, KLM is taking a leading role in shaping the future of sustainable, connected travel.

Travel : Sustainability : Tourism

Eco-tel Evolution:

Government policies are driving a new wave of environmental initiatives at high-end hotels, working to offset their impact while...

Hotels : Travel : Sustainability

The rise of eco-conscious luxury hotels:

Inge van Weert, general manager at QO Amsterdam, explores how sustainable stays are fast becoming a luxury status symbol.

Hospitality : Travel : Tourism

e-tourism:

Travel and hospitality brands are levelling up their services to embrace the thrills, sights and sounds of competitive gaming.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Neighbourhood hotels:

Liran Wizman, founder of Europe Hotels Private Collection, examines how luxury hotels can avoid exacerbating over-tourism by engaging...

Hospitality : Hotel : Travel

Inclusive Nomadism:

Remote and co-working is becoming more inclusive, driven by initiatives focused on community, access and career development.

Technology : Workplace : Travel

Gourmet Getaways:

Chefs are venturing into high-end hospitality, opening B&Bs that promise not only Michelin star-worthy food but immersion into their...

Food : Hospitality : Outdoors

The Elevated Outdoors:

Affluent consumers are swapping safaris and skiing for extreme outdoor experiences, turning to luxury brands to help boost their resilience.

Luxury : Fashion : Travel

Back to basics: the future of luxury retreats:

Dervla Louli Musgrave, founder of luxury booking portal Compare Retreats, on the desire for solo travel, silence and the opportunity for...

Wellness : Travel : Luxury

Meet the Generation Z anti-tourists changing travel:

Sam Blenkinsopp, co-founder of youth-driven travel collective Trippin, explains why brands must shape a new narrative around Generation...

Youth : Travel : Hospitality

Serendipity Hotels:

Luxury hotels, well versed in anonymity, are inviting guests to leave their inhibitions at the check-in desk and embark on chance...

Hospitality : Luxury : Travel

Literary Hospitality:

Increasing the provision of the printed page is fast usurping the large in-room flat screen as smart hoteliers’ core entertainment offer.

Hospitality : Travel : Luxury

LGBT+ Travel Market:

With the growing acceptance of the LGBT+ community around the world, travel and hospitality brands are recognising the opportunity to...

Travel : Hospitality : LGBT

The new rules of affluent Chinese travel:

With 100m new outbound Chinese tourists forecast in the next decade, travel brands will witness a seismic shift in their quest for...

China : Travel : Hospitality

Supercar Clubs:

As car ownership dwindles, luxury consumers with a passion for rare vehicles are turning to hyper-exclusive car...

Automotive : Luxury : Hospitality

Repurposed Resorts:

With rural villages becoming vacant and city homes lying empty, hoteliers are turning empty buildings into tourism opportunities.

Hospitality : Travel : Architecture

The State of Luxury: Poland:

As the country recovers from the global economic crisis, Poland’s emerging middle class are using luxury goods and services to signify...

Luxury : Retail : Hospitality

Life House is a Silicon Valley-backed luxury hotel:

Co-founder and CEO Rami Zeidan on how this nascent technology-driven hotel chain will unite guests and locals to create a community...

Luxury : Travel : Technology

Empowered Travel:

In an industry tainted by colonial roots, travel brands are shifting their priorities towards the empowerment and rights of indigenous...

Travel : Hospitality : Culture

John Pawson on the future of luxury hotel design:

The British architect on his recent project The Jaffa hotel, and why clarity and simplicity will shape the future of luxury hospitality.

Architecture : Hotels : Luxury Hotels

Why do consumers only pay lip service to sustainable tourism?:

Kathleen Ahamed-Broadhurst of sustainable tourism development firm EplerWood on the need for new metrics to help consumers make greener...

Travel : Sustainability : Tourism

How voice interfaces are transforming hospitality:

In-room AI assistants are allowing hoteliers to provide guests with a more personal experience, while boosting internal efficiency.

Hospitality : Travel : Artificial Intelligence

Why we travel – and maybe why we shouldn’t:

Next time a consumer has the impulse to travel, they should think twice about their reasons why, and their impact, says Bani Amor.

Travel : Culture : Spirituality

Designing a hotel for single parents:

Co-founder of architecture firm NOA* Stefan Rier and interior designer Joanna Lehnis explain why the hospitality sector needs to...

Travel : Hospitality : Travel & Hospitality Futures

The future of airport retail is hyper-personalisation:

With vast amounts of passenger data tied up in boarding passes, let’s use it to transform the airport retail experience, says Lee...

Airport Retail : Duty Free : Customer Data

Hotel Toiletries Upgraded:

Faced with concern over plastic waste and the need to cater for a diverse range of guests, hotels are re-evaluating their complimentary...

Travel : Hospitality : Beauty

Hospitality Fitness Market:

Reluctant to abandon the fitness regimes that have become such an integral part of everyday life, gym enthusiasts are seeking...

Travel : Hospitality : Wellness

How private aviation is broadening its appeal:

No longer the preserve of the billionaire set, private aviation is presenting new opportunities for both brands and aspirational luxury...

Travel : Luxury : Retail

Children’s Travel Market:

Modern travel brands are going above and beyond to ensure children are entertained on holiday.

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Top-tier Terminals:

Companies are embedding luxury services into airports to ease the limbo of waiting for flights.

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Connecting Clubs:

In an age of peripatetic living, digital nomads are seeking meaningful experiences and co-living spaces that foster real-life...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Polar Travel Market:

A rise in accessibility to the Arctic and Antarctica is offering consumers new ways to experience the polar regions, with innovative...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Why hotels must do more for disabled guests:

Bespoke Hotels Group co-founder and chairman Robin Sheppard on making hotels aesthetically creative and inclusive for disabled people.

Travel : Hospitality : Interiors

How cities can beat over-tourism:

In order to reverse tourism disparity and protect heritage sites, governments are taking back control.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

Bed and Beverages:

A new type of hotel is emerging where alcohol is not confined to the bar, but is at the core of the hospitality experience.

Travel : Hospitality : Drinks

What happened to the serendipity of Airbnb?:

With its push into the mainstream market, Airbnb risks losing the very elements of home-sharing that led to its success.

Hospitality : Travel : Luxury

Georgia’s post-Soviet future as a luxury travel destination:

Serdar Kutucu, executive vice-president of brand and strategy at Design Hotels, highlights the luxury potential of the Eurasian country.

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Does Pepper the robot represent the dawn of hospitality bots?:

Jonathan Boiria from Softbank Robotics discusses how its robot Pepper will infiltrate the West.

Hospitality : Travel : Technology

Wellness Tourism:

Hotels are offering new ways of supporting guests’ wellbeing beyond the traditional spa treatment.

Wellness : Travel : Hospitality

Snøhetta on the opportunities for eco-hospitality in the Arctic:

Zenul Khan, Snøhetta's senior architect, discusses the studio’s Svart hotel and designing sustainably for extreme environments.

Hospitality : Travel : Luxury

Millennial Family Travel Market:

As more and more Millennials enter parenthood, they are not giving up on their thirst for travel or their desire for sustainable...

Travel : Hospitality : Family

Are vegan cruises a moral and environmental oxymoron?:

The growing popularity of cruise ship holidays among consumers looking to visit areas of natural beauty will have a negative impact on...

Travel : Food And Drink : Sustainability

Room Service Revitalised:

To win over today’s travellers and compete with Airbnb, hotels are re-assessing the functionality, flavours and frills of...

Hospitality : Travel : Food

Chinese Duty-free Retail Market:

Chinese tourists’ passion for duty-free shopping is making Asia-Pacific the engine of growth for the travel-retail sector.

Retail : Travel : Luxury

Stripped-back Hospitality:

Luxury hotels are paring back superfluous services and features in the hope of offering a more streamlined experience.

Luxury : Hospitality : Travel

South Africa Travel Market:

As tourism in South Africa booms, a rise in the number of African travellers and of companies bringing about positive social change is...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

How robots are transforming the travel and hospitality sectors:

Service robots are appearing in a range of contexts from airport departure lounges to restaurants and hotels.

Hospitality : Travel : Technology

George Ritzer on the McDisneyisation of tourism:

The sociologist discusses how travel has succumbed to control, predictability and the wrath of McDonald’s.

Travel : Hospitality : Placemaking

Brandlords:

As our relationships with brands become increasingly intimate, future-facing businesses will expand their luxury services by offering...

Luxury : Hospitality : Architecture

Liberal Leisure Havens:

As political divides widen and people increasingly vote with their wallets, a new wave of liberal hoteliers are offering hospitality...

Hospitality : Travel : Politics

Emerging Youth Travel Market:

Emerging economies with youth populations eager to explore new territories will radically transform the travel and hospitality sector.

Travel : Youth : Hospitality

Members’ Club Market:

The growth of the premium co-working sector is transforming members’ clubs.

Hospitality : Work : Luxury

Brand Innovation Debrief: Airbnb:

Airbnb's latest initiatives show the multitude of ways in which the company is embedding itself into people’s everyday lives, from...

Travel : Hospitality : Architecture

Experience-collectors:

Luxury travel experiences are becoming the new collectors’ items – and the less accessible they are the more aspirational they are for...

Luxury : Travel : Hospitality

Activism Dining:

Food is now being used not only as a way to understand other cultures, but as a form of resistance against a backdrop of political unrest.

Food : Drinks : Activism

Tom Marchant on getting off the tourist trail:

The co-founder of luxury travel agency Black Tomato on excessive tourism, competing with the internet and his brand’s move into wellness.

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

Conscious Tourism Market:

Brands are increasingly using travel to promote inclusivity and sustainability, especially in emerging economies.

Travel : Hospitality : Community

Saudi Arabia Travel Market:

Under the guidance of a forward-thinking Millennial Crown Prince, the fifth largest country in Asia is opening up to tourism.

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

How extreme escapism has moved into hospitality:

Travel and hospitality innovators are tapping into the experiential nature of immersive theatre to offer next-level escapism.

Travel & Hospitality : Luxury : Experience

Sleep Easy Travel:

There is a new focus on sleep in the travel market as consumers look to avoid stress, fatigue and jet lag.

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

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Next-level Hedonism

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Radisson wants to revolutionise room service with on-site cloud kitchens

The Radisson Hotel Group has branched out into food delivery services by opening cloud kitchens on hotel premises.

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The Big Idea: Luxury landmarks reshaping cities

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The Trend: Guilded Luxury

This year, we have witnessed shifting dynamics between luxury brands and their clients, giving rise to what The Future Laboratory calls Guilded Luxury.

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