Valentina De Santis, Owner and CEO of Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Lake Como, is in Forbes' choice of 100 most influential females in Italy. As well as running the hotel, she also looks after her family. As her GM, Silvio Vettorello, says: "She is always present in the company and with the same desire to always [...]
Category: People
Bill Bensley’s sustainability plea
During his keynote address at the Thailand Tourism Forum 2020 in Bangkok on 20 January, Bill Bensley launched his open-source “Sensible Sustainability Solutions” white paper for the global Hotel Industry, incorporating over three decades of experience from designing over 200 hotels around the world and in celebration of 30 years since he created BENSLEY. Deeply [...]
Wanna cruise with Gwynnie?
goop, the modern lifestyle brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow, is partnering with Celebrity Cruises to create the first goop at Sea experience. Scheduled to take place on the soon-to-debut Celebrity Apex, the event will see Paltrow and goop’s Chief Content Officer, Elise Loehnen, join an 11-night wellness cruise through the Mediterranean on 26 August 2020 to host a [...]
Tom Kerridge shows chefs can ski
Momentum Ski's seventh annual Mountain Gourmet-Ski Experience is scheduled for 12-15 March 2020, at Courmayeur Mont Blanc Italy, with sponsors including The Financial Times and Swiss airlines. This year's star chef is Tom Kerridge, whose airline affiliation is, perhaps ambiguously, with British Airways - his name is plastered all over his national carrier's M&S food-to-buy [...]
25hours Hotels Company launches 25hours People
Christoph Hoffmann, CEO of Hamburg-based 25hours Hotels Company, says “We are looking for people from all over the world who have character and individuality and who take pleasure in contributing their personalities and talents with enthusiasm, whilst also continuing to shape the 25hours brand as part of a team. For us, personal qualities are more important [...]
Amazing Experiences guru Doug Gollan discusses transporting Carlos Ghosn
Miami-based media veteran and man-around-the-world Doug Gollan specialises in private jets, and anything out of the ordinary. His website http://www.dgamazingexperiences.com covers such helpful suggestions for uber-luxury travellers as his choice of Top California resorts: 1. Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur 2. Brewery Gulch Inn, Mendocino 3. Solage, Calistoga 4. Resort at [...]
The industry needs to realise people can get to the top without specific training
Nickie Sheils is GM on RSSC’s Seven Seas Mariner. She runs everything except the ship’s bridge and engine rooms. She has a maximum of 750 passengers to look after. They all check out (disembark) between 8 am and 9 am at the end of a cruise, and the next lot of passengers check in from [...]
Does Forbes take hotels, hospitality and travel seriously?
As always, Forbes magazine publishes its list of the world’s 100 most important women. Yet again, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the rankings, and this year, for the first time, climate change prodigy Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, comes in at spot-100. But there is only one "hotelier" in the list: Ivanka Trump, who has actually [...]
News: Luxury hoteliers always in demand
Frankly, there is a shortage, industry-wide, of hoteliers who truly understand luxury (it could be said that Le Cheval Blanc and Rosewood lead the brands that gobble up the coveted few. This week has seen two GMs who are luxury, through and through, announce they are moving on. One day, Klaus Kabelitz, who persevered for years [...]
What is a meaningful escape? Ask Capella
Capella Hotel Group’s new Meaningful Escapism guest experiences have three cornerstones: community, spirituality and sustainability. As company CEO Nicholas Clayton says, We want to meet the needs of mindful travellers who are looking for more conscious travel experiences that enrich their lives and positively impact members of the local community Capella, which is part of Global [...]