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Luxury Travel

In-depth coverage of luxury travel, including hotels, cruises, private jet travel, travel advisors and agents, and tour operators.

Hotels

Startup Want Me Get Me promises free perks for booking through its site

Guests have to pay standard room rates with the expectation of little more than free Wi-Fi, although their names appearing on the GM’s VIP list may be helpful if they don’t mind sucking up a little.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

The growth of luxury hotels in Toronto mirrors the city’s changing landscape

The variety of luxury hotels in Toronto portrays the diversity of its evolving neighborhoods with room décor as varied as chic boutique to black-and-white photos of the city’s top athletes.

Skift | 12 years ago

The growth of luxury hotels in Toronto mirrors the city’s changing landscape

Airlines

World leaders enjoy private bedrooms on Boeing’s new business jet

Passengers no longer have to wonder what it would take to actually feel rested at the end of a flight -- all you have to do is become a head of state.

Skift | 12 years ago

World leaders enjoy private bedrooms on Boeing’s new business jet

Hotels

Four Seasons hunts for the next luxury hotspot

Looking for hotspots these days means mostly international, and that means growth hubs like China, and still very nascent Latin American market.

Skift | 12 years ago

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6 upcoming luxury travel trends from Virtuoso Travel Week

There's apparently no discussion of a global recession inside this convention, where suppliers and travel agents debate which river cruises and space travel options are best for the young and affluent clientele.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Former owner of Jumeirah Essex House buys it back to rebrand as JW Marriott Essex House

The Jumeirah group paid almost $425 million in 2005 for the property and spent millions refurbishing it and turning rooms into condos. The latest sale excludes most of those condos.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hoteliers argue against new luxury tax on five-star hotels in New Delhi

The government's plan to draw revenue from rich tourists is a blow to the hotel industry in an already wavering economy and may be enough to drive tourists into other Indian states, or even countries.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

The top 10 cities in the U.S. for luxury hotel room market share

Florida and California demonstrate that being (geographically) tall and thin does equal luxury and collectively take up seven of the top ten slots.

Skift | 12 years ago

Cruises

Exclusive French luxury cruise line bought by a sandwich chain

Prêt a Manger's parent company has investments in many industries so the purchase of Compagnie du Ponant's three-ship cruise line isn't too far-fetched. No word on whether its all-inclusive price packages includes a sandwich-making station.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Soho House expansion in Berlin offers members fully serviced apartments

Soho House is hiding on a bit of a high this year with new openings and refurbishments helped along by a cash infusion by billionaire/man-about-town Ron Burkle.

Skift | 12 years ago