“We are grateful for what we have achieved in our first decade. Grateful, in part, because so much of life is an accident. You stumble on something, you react to the opportunity, and sometimes you don’t always know where it’s going to lead you….” – Adrian Zecha,...

Mary Gostelow is a prominent travel journalist, luxury hotel expert, and author. With over four decades of experience in the industry, she has become a leading authority on the world’s most luxurious hotels and destinations. She is the founder and...

As the new year kicks in, I’m allowing myself a moment of indulgent and happy stock-taking. LHC absolutely roared through 2022! Assignments took us both near and far – introducing us to fresh iterations of hospitality across UAE, Costa Rica, Switzerland, France,...

The luxury travel market has performed well over the last few months and exciting new trends are emerging from the embers of the pandemic. There’s a noticeable boom in the hunger for private aviation, demand for total buyouts of villas and...

“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new” – Jules Verne – I’ve been watching the wonderful re-make of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, and find myself missing the days of leaping on planes to such far-flung...

And here we are… days from 2022! As the year draws to a close, my mind likes to enjoy a quick meander back across the months, trying to get a sense of things. How did 2021 compare to 2020? Have we found any fresh stability for the industry yet? And, if I’m...

During my time at hotel school, we were forever being reminded that the magic words for any new hotel were ‘location, location, location’. But, in light of recent events, I wonder if it has changed. Shouldn’t we be thinking about ‘people, people, people’? It’s no...

“We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves.” – David Attenborough The pandemic made it crystal clear that what happens in one part of the world impacts another. Borders have not kept COVID at bay: We are...

The following interview with Liv originally appeared on the Hertelier website: https://www.hertelier.com/post/5-wellness-trends-in-luxury-hotel-operations-with-liv-gussing-burgess We chatted with Liv about what should be on our radar with all the changes taking shape...

My four-year-old stood confidently in front of her class and announced: “My mother’s job is to say hello and good-bye to all the people who come to visit her hotel.” She then placed one hand on her hip and extended the other, pretending to shake someone’s hand....