JW Marriott, in collaboration with Aromatherapy Associates, yesterday announced the launch of The Mindful Travel Edit, a collection of four spa products aimed at relieving travel’s most common stressors. Just in time for a new year of travel, the kit includes a collection of bath and body essentials to allow travellers to stay relaxed during [...]
Category: Wellness
News: Coronavirus, learn more
The Pacific Asia Travel Association PATA is hosting a free webinar tomorrow, Thursday 6th February 2020, to look at current data and insights from ForwardKeys. The webinar is timed for 1600 Bangkok time. To register, contact zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x2EQ6-F-TLC1pavWKMb9KA ForwardKeys analyses global aviation capacity, flight searches and over 17 million flight booking transactions a day, to provide a look into the current [...]
Read more: Ted Turner’s unique Vermejo ranch
Vermejo Park Ranch is 40 miles west of Raton, NM, USA - it is four hours' drive south of Denver and four hours' drive north of Albuquerque. The 600,000-acre ranch, bought by Ted Turner, is home to 1,400 bison, plus antelope,1,400 bison, deer, elk, mountain lion, 180 species of birds. There is memorable fishing, Orvis-endorsed, on [...]
News: Is St-Jean Cap-Ferrat going to have another luxury hotel?
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, has apparently paid €200 million for Villa des Cèdres, Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, France. He bought it via his System Capital Management, SCM. The villa, built in the 1800s, is set in 35 acres of world-class botanical gardens. The seller, via Savills (who were marketing it all for $350 million) is the [...]
Read more: New wellness trends
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020, The Global Wellness Institute released its latest trends: Focus Shifts from Sleep to True Circadian Health We’ve never been so sleep-obsessed. We pony up for sleep-tracking Oura rings, the latest, smartest mattresses, and meditative sleep headbands; crawl into nap pods; and travel far to bed down at sleep retreats. We [...]
China advisory
The U.S. State Department has issued its highest travel advisory, Level 4, to the Hubei province in China due to an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, which was first identified in the capital city of Wuhan. Level 4 advisories urge travelers “Do not travel,” the strongest terms the system employs, ahead of the Level 3 “Reconsider travel,” Level [...]
Staying there: Setai Miami Beach
Why is The Setai Miami Beach so special? This is the hotel that is obviously packed out not only for Art Basel Miami but for other special events: for Super Bowl 2020, this coming Sunday, 2 February, it has sold its Penthouse for five nights, for $50,000 a night.... GM Alex Furrer can cope with anything. [...]
Staying there: a pair of Sacher hotels in Austria
Before starting on a tour of two remarkable hotels, let us look at sachertorte, universally the world’s best-known cake. Ever since Viennese pastry cook Peter Sacher created it in 1832, the cake has grown in popularity. At last count, the Sacher factory in Vienna, Austria, produces over 360,000 cakes a year, using 75 tons of [...]
News: HOTCO, Budapest – Day One
The fourth annual Hotel Investment Platform CEE & Caucasus, HOTCO, kicked off yesterday, Monday 20 January 2020, at Kempinski Hotel Corvinus, Budapest, Hungary (GM Stephan Interthal). Chairman Marius Gomola, who heads the Budapest office of Horwath HTTL, as always had worked a whole year to pull it together so successfully, and attracted 350 registered delegates. [...]
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 [...]