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04. What’s New and Next in Luxury Travel (opens the original)
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A lot can happen between editions of What’s New and Next. Hotels open, renovate, and reopen. Brands announce projects years in the making, and airlines redraw routes. Meanwhile, innovative wellness offerings and fashion collaborations give us fresh reasons to revisit destinations we’ve long known and loved.Since launching this series in June, our premise has been simple: identify the travel news that changes the w
03. What’s New and Next in Luxury Travel (opens the original)
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When we joined Virtuoso in 2010, the factors motivating client travel decisions looked vastly different. For starters, Instagram didn’t even exist yet (the app wouldn’t launch until October of that year). The iPhone was only three years old, and the idea of traveling with your itinerary, Google Maps lists—likely culled together after watching a hundred TikToks—and a WhatsApp thread with the hotel concierge in your pocket was still a long way off.Travel planning was, by nature, far more tactile.
The August Edit: your 2027 Travel Trends Report has landed 🛬 (opens the original)
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In July, our first monthly edit landed in your inbox. It rounded up the articles that hit our site at the height of summer, covering everything from the envy-inducing stops on Dua Lipa and Callum Turner’s honeymoon to fresh itineraries and guides through Greece, along with deep destination dives from Napa to the Seychelles. In case you missed it, we’ve linked the edit below.<a class="image-link image2" href="h
02. What's New and Next in Luxury Travel (opens the original)
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Last month, we launched our first-ever Stay Awhile edition of “What’s New and Next in Luxury Travel” as an expanded version of our long-standing Instagram series updating you on the hotel openings, hospitality partnerships, museum musings, fashion collaborations, and restaurant news that we think deserve a moment on your radar.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c
Some of the most interesting hotels right now aren’t trying to be “luxury” at all (opens the original)
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In a hospitality landscape where brand positioning dominates so many conversations and client decisions, we’re always looking for an outlier. The brand that does something a bit differently—one whose risk pays off.Hyatt fits this mold of risk being met with reward in more ways than meet the untrained eye. Years ago, Hyatt saw an opportunity to pave the way for a different approach to their portfolio, intentionally building it to position “lifestyle” not as an aspirational rung below luxury, but
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