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Can hotels become the towns of the future?

By Rhiannon McGregor and Holly Friend 29 : 09 : 2021 Travel : Workplace : Hospitality

By providing a blueprint for future living, Tara Medina and Andrés Saavedra, co-founders of MUSA, are blurring the boundaries of hospitality and home.

Can hotels become the towns of the future?

The Future of Travel Publishing:

New magazine Sablos aims to build an anti-TripAdvisor so travellers can truly eat, drink and live like a local. LS:N Global speaks to...

Travel : Hospitality : Media

In-transit Retail Innovations:

How do the three Ts – technology, targets and trends – help turn travel time into valuable retail time? LS:N Global talks to Lennard...

Travel Retail : Airport Futures : Travel & Hospitality

Dining Deluxe:

LS:N Global speaks exclusively to creative agency Construct about crafting experience design for a new era of luxury dining.

Luxury : Dining Experience : Hotel Experience

State of Luxury: India:

A booming middle class of premium aspirers and the consistent increase of UHNWIs’ wealth strongly establish India as no longer an...

Luxury : India : Indian Luxury Market

Young Nativists:

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

Youth : Travel : Hospitality

Elevating Travel Narratives:

AboundStudio’s founder James Huntly discusses design’s role in creating meaningful brand narratives that reflect travellers’ changing...

Travel : Design : Hospitality

Targeting Ultra-high-net-worth Individuals on Social Media:

Social media specialist Lily Power argues that getting digitally social with the 1% is all about exclusivity, authenticity and tapping...

Luxury : Advertising & Branding : Retail

No-lo Taste Lifts:

Vicky Berry, the European business development manager of global flavouring manufacturer Synergy, explains how the future of no- and...

Food And Drink : Non Alcoholic Drinks : Flavour Manufacturing

Bleisure Redefined:

Initially capturing work and leisure fusions for business travellers, the Bleisure concept is now rapidly changing the travel industry.

Travel : Work States : Bleisure

How Travel Retail is Evolving:

For the travel retail marketplace, Chinese shoppers are still the predominant target customers as they resume overseas trips. We round...

Retail : Travel : Beauty

Luxury Members’ Club Market:

In the post-Covid-19 inflationary landscape, affluents are flocking to third spaces to socialise, connect and indulge in lavish...

Luxury : Travel & Hospitality : Society

Riding the Wave of Surfing Futures:

A stream of women surfers and newcomers of colour are making the practice mainstream while boosting demand for surf tourism, equipment...

Travel & Hospitality : Surfing : Sport & Leisure

Latam Afrocentric Itineraries:

A new wave of Afro-Latino travel innovators are focusing on Black narratives in the South American tourism market.

Travel : Hospitality : Tourism

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Reports : Events

The Dorchester: Reframing Future Heritage:

London’s The Dorchester has undergone a significant rebranding, rooted in its 1930s inception. We speak exclusively to creative agency...

Luxury : Hospitality : Design

Future Airport Commerce:

A new report by Kinetic Consultancy explores how digital enhancements and new concept developments can improve the airport customer...

Airports : Commerce : Retail

Cruise Ship Market:

As it navigates post-pandemic travel the cruise industry is redefining its purpose to keep up with travellers’ demands for...

Cruise : Mobility : Luxury Yacht

Next-level Luxury Pop-ups:

Brands are experimenting with niche campaign moments and product drops via pop-ups – with the aim of better understanding regional and...

Luxury : Retail : Advertising

Brand-led Immersive Travel:

What’s next for rarefied, luxury travel? We speak to brand consultant Joel Bartfeld about his new travel platform, Joel Found, and the...

Travel : Hospitality : Luxury

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 : Carbon Neutral

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five Luxury Hotels Elevating Sleep Tourism:

From AI-powered mattresses to in-house sleep specialists, high-end hotels are placing next-generation restorative facilities at the...

Travel & Hospitality : Luxury : Hotels

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

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