Last year, a series of LUTE Lockdown Lounge webinars examined how the luxury-travel industry should respond to the various crises precipitated by the unfurling pandemic. While the C-word continues to…
As rag to riches tales go, Britnie Turner’s is an impressive one. Today a very, very rich 32-year-old, just over 10 years ago the South Carolina native was living in…
By John O’Ceallaigh Prolific Bangkok-based hotel designer Bill Bensley is renowned for his brilliantly unconventional properties. That’s a reputation he looks set to consolidate further as word of the forthcoming…
By John O’Ceallaigh For me, Italy is shorthand for indulgence. When I go there on holiday I’m signing up for gelato for breakfast and a conveyor belt of beach club…
By John O’Ceallaigh There’s a slight problem when it comes to planning a Great Migration holiday in Tanzania and the clue’s in the name: the spectacle moves through the immensity…
By John O’Ceallaigh In a riff on those ‘want to feel old yet?’ memes that show child actors of yesteryear as addled by middle-age as the rest of us, spare…
By John O’Ceallaigh Clearly, there’s never been a more challenging time to kickstart a new hotel brand but the imminent debut of three new hotel groups on British shores is…
By John O’Ceallaigh We’ve become so accustomed to bad news, that a recent notification about the forthcoming spring launch of Marbella Club’s new Clubhouse seemed to have been beamed in…
By John O’Ceallaigh A disclaimer: I seem to be innately predisposed towards Ashford Castle on the Galway-Mayo border in the west of Ireland. I grew up an hour away in…
By John O’Ceallaigh The president and founder of Red Carnation Hotels, Beatrice Tollman may be from South Africa, but it is in Botswana, at the enticingly named Paradise Island in…
