Luxury journey information from world wide (July 2024)

In our newest round-up of luxurious journey information, we convey you a choice of essentially the most thrilling updates from the world of high-end journey. From revolutionary developments in personal jet reserving to new alliances enhancing out of doors luxurious experiences, our newest version is filled with various inspiring developments. Read on to to find out about a few of the world’s most interesting lodging developments and the newest information on unique luxurious journey companies.

Equinox Hotels, a revolutionary chief in high-performance luxurious hospitality, is proud to announce plans for the opening of Equinox Resort Treyam, one among Magna’s twelve locations, situated on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. Magna’s locations, together with Treyam, are a part of NEOM, the evolving regional growth, taking form in northwest Saudi Arabia.

Promising an unmatched hospitality expertise in one of many world’s most gorgeous and undiscovered places, Equinox Resort Treyam brings Equinox Hotels’ high-performance way of life to an imposing vacation spot between the mountains and the ocean.

MIRAI is a pioneering personal jet dealer that has embraced know-how to revolutionise the personal aviation business. In addition to providing prompt quotes and bookings, MIRAI additionally supplies discounted real-time Empty Legs flights, the place flexibility is proscribed however costs are decrease.

World of Hyatt is inviting visitors and members to immerse themselves in memorable out of doors experiences and stays at Under Canvas’ 13 out of doors resorts, together with Under Canvas’ new luxurious out of doors resort, ULUM Moab. The new alliance supplies members with unprecedented entry to iconic, upscale experiences throughout many U.S. nationwide parks and different notable out of doors locations. World of Hyatt members can now guide their stays at Under Canvas camps and ULUM Moab via Hyatt to start out incomes and redeeming factors.

The Under Canvas and ULUM out of doors resorts provide World of Hyatt members a few of the most sought-after and curated luxurious out of doors experiences. Spread throughout spectacular locations within the U.S., resembling Montana’s Yellowstone National Park, Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, Acadia National Park in Maine and Yosemite National Park in California (anticipated opening in May 2025), Under Canvas camps provide extraordinary upscale hospitality, with safari-inspired tents and complimentary programming resembling nightly campfires with s’mores, board video games, yoga and child’s actions. The camps additionally provide healthful and nutritious meals and beverage choices via revolutionary menus that embrace seasonality and thoughtfully sourced components.

Air France has inaugurated a brand new airport journey for its La Première clients at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, that includes a newly created check-in foyer and airport suites. Upon arrival, La Première visitors are welcomed by a devoted concierge who attends to their baggage and guides them to the unique check-in foyer. Here, an attentive Air France workforce handles all departure-related procedures, together with check-in and baggage help.

The check-in foyer is furnished with 15 seats and two personal lounges, accommodating La Première passengers each arriving and departing. Customers can chill out post-flight, use the accessible bathe services, and simply retrieve their checked baggage, guaranteeing a seamless and opulent journey expertise.

Capella Hotels and Resorts have introduced plans for his or her first resort in Taiwan, Capella Kenting, which would be the model’s second property within the nation. This world-class resort, set to be the primary of its variety in Southern Taiwan, will occupy 99,000 sq. meters alongside the western shoreline of Taiwan’s Hengchun Peninsula in Pingtung. The resort is designed by famend Italian architects Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel of ACPV ARCHITECTS, who drew inspiration from Pingtung’s indigenous structure and the wealthy pure setting of the Hengchun Peninsula to create their refined and complicated masterpiece.

Hilton is increasing its luxurious resort choices by including almost 400 boutique properties from the Small Luxury Hotels of the World assortment. These properties will now be accessible for reserving via Hilton.com and the Hilton Honors app.

The SLH assortment joins Hilton’s luxurious manufacturers, together with Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, LXR, and Signia. Hilton Honors members can now earn and redeem factors for stays at these new boutique resorts, including to their journey choices throughout the Hilton portfolio.

Viking has introduced that its latest ocean ship, the Viking Vesta®, has been “floated out”, marking a big building milestone because the ship touches water for the primary time. With a gross tonnage of 54,300 tons and 499 staterooms for 998 visitors, the small ship is about to debut in July 2025, providing itineraries within the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

The conventional float-out ceremony occurred at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Ancona and signifies the ship coming into its closing building part, the place water fills the constructing dock, permitting the Viking Vesta to drift.

InterContinental Hotels & Resorts introduced that InterContinental Bellevue on the Avenue is open to visitors. This 208-room luxurious resort, located throughout the $1bn+ Avenue Bellevue complicated developed by Fortress Development, marks the model’s debut within the Pacific Northwest. With breathtaking views of Lake Washington and downtown Seattle, InterContinental Bellevue on the Avenue is poised to grow to be a premier vacation spot for native, regional, and world vacationers.

Renowned way of life resort model INNSiDE by Meliá has simply opened its first property in Portugal: the INNSiDE Braga Centro within the iconic Retiro das Convertidas constructing. This fashionable resort has been totally renovated to supply visitors a seamless mix of leisure and enterprise. With its designer areas, informal environment designed to unwind and encourage, and accessible premium service, the resort is the right place to begin to find the native scene within the metropolis. 

INNSiDE Braga Centro is within the coronary heart of town, on Avenida Central, making it straightforward for curious travellers to discover the vacation spot’s most iconic landmarks. Just steps away from the resort lie The Portas de Braga and the majestic Sé de Braga Cathedral, two of town’s most historic monuments. 

Vietnam Airlines has introduced the launch of a nonstop service between Hanoi and Phnom Penh. Additionally, the airline has signed cooperation agreements with key companions in Cambodia to foster aviation and tourism growth between the 2 international locations.  The new route is about to start on 27 October 2024, with a frequency of 4 flights every week on Mondays; Wednesdays; Fridays; and Sundays on Airbus A321. Passengers at present travelling from Hanoi to Phnom Penh should transit via Vientiane, Laos, on the airline’s Indochina service. 

This new route will convey Vietnam Airlines’ complete variety of routes between Vietnam and Cambodia to 5 by the top of October, together with 4 direct routes: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh; Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap; and one Indochina route. The complete variety of flights between the 2 international locations will attain 86 per week. 

Launched in May 2024 by Kessler, Kessler Charters is the most recent luxurious boat firm in Savannah providing excursions and excursions with their fleet of two vintage, hand-crafted wood vessels. Groups of as much as six folks can expertise an intimate, timeless journey of the Savannah waterways to soak within the metropolis’s basic attraction and hidden historic gems.

Palace Hotel Tokyo, a luxurious property beloved since its opening in 2012, has been awarded Three Keys by the MICHELIN Guide. This recognition highlights the resort’s achievements in delivering the world’s most extraordinary keep experiences.

As one among solely three properties in Tokyo to obtain this high distinction, Palace Hotel Tokyo enhances its repute as the one Japanese-brand resort to attain this elite standing. The resort additionally boasts a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star score for 9 consecutive years and just lately acquired a Five-Star score for its evian SPA TOKYO, one among solely 4 in Japan.

Perched atop Santorini‘s highest point in Imerovigli village, Kivotos Santorini invites you to bask in the lap of personalised luxury. From the moment you arrive, every aspect of your experience at this sublime hideaway is meticulously customised to suit your preferences, style and aesthetic. Here’s a glimpse into how this stylish and cavernous boutique resort is redefining luxurious via bespoke companies and curated gastronomy, reworking every keep into an unforgettable story you not solely get to inform but additionally form! 

A novel museum devoted to ties, the Cravaticum – Museum Boutique of the Cravat, situated in downtown Zagreb, has formally launched. The museum’s idea and ethos is as an example the  historic significance of neckties, and contribute to the worldwide promotion of Croatia, as a homeland of the cravat.

Despite its deal with a 400-year-old artifact, this treasure home of ties is way from outdated. Cravaticum celebrates each the introduction of the cravat, dropped at the world by the Croatian troopers within the seventeenth century, and the evolution of this vogue accent to the current day. From immersive uniforms of a Cravat regiment to revolutionary designs of Juraj Zigman, the famend Croatian dressmaker who has labored with Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Rit U.O., Cristina Aguilera, Cardi B and others.

Chef Prin Polsuk of Bangkok’s newly minted Michelin-starred Samrub Samrub Thai takes over Six Senses Samui‘s signature restaurant, Dining on the Rocks, for two evenings this August to showcase Chef Prin’s distinctive cooking idea.

Chef Prin’s culinary rules is to protect conventional Thai cooking strategies and long-lost recipes dated again to the period of King Rama VI and reinterpret them utilizing seasonal native components embodying his ethos of dwelling in concord with nature’s cycles. His menu for this take over in Samui can even hyperlink with how native fishermen get pleasure from their delicacies, through which Chef Prin and his workforce beforehand had their experiences first-hands.

EVA Air, Taiwan’s main unbiased airline, has gained but extra accolades, this time from Travel + Leisure’s  readers as one of many World’s Best International Airlines of 2024. Based on their experiences with cabin consolation, inflight service, customer support and worth, readers responding to the publication’s annual “World’s Best Awards” survey ranked EVA tenth on the listing. Survey outcomes can be found on the “Travel + Leisure” web site . 

The “World’s Best Awards” survey covers 125 classes and roughly 186,000 “Travel + Leisure” readers accomplished the 2024 survey, casting greater than 700,000 votes for greater than 8,700 distinctive properties, airways, airports, resorts and cities. EVA, together with Singapore Airlines, La Compagnie, Emirates, All Nippon Airways, Qatar Airways, Korean Air, Japan Airlines, Thai Airways International and Etihad Airways, has been chosen as one of many Top 10 International Airlines this 12 months.

A brand new boat-rental market, Boatsy, is pioneering a brand new technique to guide crusing holidays. Founded by a collective of sea-loving entrepreneurs with roots in tourism and know-how, Boatsy will redefine the patron expertise of reserving seafaring journeys.

Boatsy goals to rework the standard boat rental course of, turning mere leases into unforgettable experiences, and empowering clients to seamlessly guide their itinerary and most well-liked boat in a single streamlined course of. Thanks to a community of native consultants in key crusing locations, and user-friendly platforms on the net and cellular apps, visitors have ultimate-autonomy, and might even ‘instant book’ their journey. The platform reduces gray areas and guarantees the utmost predictability of any journey, from the finer particulars of an itinerary to probably sudden gas prices, equipping shoppers with all of the must-have info to guide a profitable vacation at sea.

With quite a lot of tour choices and availability remaining this 12 months, plus thrilling new alternatives in 2025, AdventureSmith Explorations is the go-to for skilled journey planning.

Experiencing the magic of the long-lasting Galapagos Islands is not like some other journey on Earth. That’s why the journey consultants at AdventureSmith Explorations, the chief in small-ship journey cruises, have curated a group of Galapagos cruises that invite vacationers to embark on the journey of a lifetime aboard a few of the most luxurious and revolutionary vessels within the archipelago right this moment. With a spread of recent ships and distinctive itineraries, vacationers are positive to create core reminiscences in one of many world’s most pristine pure environments.

Grand Hotel Tremezzo – the epitome of magnificence, deeply rooted in conventional Italian values of household and hospitality – has proudly unveiled an enhanced spa and wellness program at T Spa. Through years of mastery, Grand Hotel Tremezzo’s skilled spa therapists have mastered conventional strategies and now introduce revolutionary therapies, together with the Italian Hammam ritual and the Moroccan Dream Hammam to their spectacular spa menu.

The Pierhouse Hotel at Port Appin has teamed up with one of many nation’s main journey cyclists, Markus Stitz, to place Argyll on the map with a brand new biking retreat.

From 18th to twentieth October, biking fanatics will probably be provided the chance to affix Markus as he explores a few of his favorite Argyll cycle trails on gravel tracks, quiet roads and cycle paths by day. Markus can even host a dinner and an entertaining discuss for visitors on the Saturday night.

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Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxury Travel Blog and has labored within the journey business for greater than 30 years. He is Winner of the Innovations in Travel ‘Best Travel Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. In addition to different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of the world’s best travel blogs” and “best for luxury” by The Telegraph.