The ultra-luxury playbook: Cracking the code of the world’s wealthiest travellers 

An opulent luxury hotel suite lounge.

Who is the new ultra-luxury traveller? Reports and trends pieces abound, and with them, confusion and contradiction.  Just eighteen months ago, The New York Times was heralding the ubiquity of ‘quiet luxury’ and ‘stealth wealth’, in which ultra luxury status is coded and telegraphed almost invisibly. In 2025, we’re seeing feverish talk in the Financial […]

Heritage hotels – Stuck in luxury’s past?

Street view image of the exterior of a Hotel located in London flying the Union Jack flag

Whether you’re in central London, on Park Avenue in New York, or in Singapore’s Downtown Core, you’re never more than a stone’s throw away from a hotel that has played host to royalty and served cocktails to epoch-defining power brokers. As backdrops to culture-defining liaisons and world-shaping events, for the grandest hotels there is an […]