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 [...]
Category: What else is out there
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Time to think Madagascar
The island of Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean, celebrates the rare and undiscovered: home to obscure wildlife creatures and endangered species, such as lemurs and chameleons, otherworldly landscapes and a mosaic of unexplored coves in the sparkling Indian Ocean. A fascinating yet perplexing place, 85% of its biodiversity is found nowhere else on earth. Fringed [...]
What is Disney up to in Orlando?
Walt Disney World recently purchased an additional 235 acres of land to add to its Orlando hub, but there’s no word yet as to what the plot will be used for. The company made the acquisition through the Compass Rose Corporation, a subsidiary. The land, located just west of Disney’s Oak Trail Golf Course, was [...]
Read more: all-inclusive and luxury can go hand-in-hand
Apart from budget airlines, and flying Economy on other carriers, airlines offer free food and drink (what customers think of the quality thereof is another matter). In the cruise industry, the higher you go up the luxury scale the more you obviously pay and the more you get. At the peak, you get superb wines, [...]
Will private race tracks replace replace hotel golf courses?
It is reckoned there are about 16,000 golf courses in the USA and, for an 18-hole course, anything between 100 and 200 acres is needed. For an 18-hole course, the amount of water required depends on the location. Not surprisingly, courses in the South-West are the most thirsty – the National Golf Association reckons annual [...]
Go for Chinese – but in USA/Canada
This article from Jing Daily was written for the fashion market but is highly relevant to luxury travel: While many brands focus their efforts on reaching mainland Chinese consumers, the five million-plus Chinese residents based in the U.S. make for a massive — and overlooked — market opportunity. Despite growing up in China, Chinese consumers tend to [...]
Read more: learn from luxury goods sector thoughts
This article appeared on https://www.businessoffashion.com/ - and it shows that luxury fashion and goods are closely related to luxury travel, tourism and hospitality: 'Over the past decade, the luxury goods sector has expanded at a healthy rate of approximately two times global GDP growth, largely powered by the rise of China, where new waves of [...]