Size Matters
Contributor/ The Vulture The Vulture loves January. Who doesn’t? All that freshly-minted hope brightening the air, tangy in the nostrils. It’s bracing as long as you ignore the fact that all will be...
The Power of Influence
Written for BLLA Symposium in Santa Monica Hotels: cultural influencers and influences Influence is the lifeblood of today’s commercial world. Savvy brands understand the power of harnessing...
Hotels ne regrette rien
Contributor/ The Vulture Regrets? The Vulture has been known to have a few, although usually they fade after the sun’s come over the yard arm. For Sébastien Bazin, Accor chairman & CEO, it...
The Miami Beat
Miami is known for big statements, fast lifestyles and its vaunted heritage. But it’s much more culturally astute than ever before, perhaps unsurprising as it’s the spiritual home of art deco. It...
The Grand Revival
“Hotels are a place where people can live and pass through and feel. I find them highly motivating and highly creative.” Alexandra Champalimaud Grand hotels are the pillars upon which the...
Ministry of Ideas at LE Miami
Recently, at the hotel industry’s answer to Fashion Week, LE Miami, somewhere between the heat and the hotels at their Ministry of Ideas event, we were listening to Swedish economist and writer,...
Real Talk for LE Miami
The below feature was written for LE Miami ahead of the event taking place 7th-12th June, see the guestlist here. The contemporary travel industry is no stranger to evolution, with hotels perhaps...
Travel light
One could say that we live in a time where secretaries, desks and over-inflated offices appear excessive. Creatives from Generations X and Y are working within a network of people who’ve traded...
The places you’re going to go…
So the year started yesterday and already it’s ‘game on’ for hotel-land, but don’t be fooled in preparation for these projects, militant planning and negotiation started long ago....
Hands off the guest
Contributor/ The Vulture The Youth, I am constantly being informed, will tell you just about anything. Unbidden. Any old fact, photo, fart that they’ve just come up with, they’re eager to ram it in...
Brooklynite
Contributor/ Patrick Duffy No matter where you’re from, you have a feeling when you visit Manhattan. It’s an expectation of larger than life spectacles, grand spaces, and a stylish, well-heeled,...
There’s only one way of life
Contributor/ The Vulture I don’t know about you, but as far as I’m concerned, the most important person in my known universe is me. I have close friends, confidantes, cronies, but, when it comes to...
Morgans & Vice
So by now you’ve figured that strategic brand collaborations are the hot thing in hotel-land. Well, this is something quite different from the creators of “hotels as theatre”. Vice Media’s food...
Ace in the ‘hood
Every now and again a hotel brand will come along that makes a neighbourhood better, both fitting in with and enhancing the ‘hoods pulse, soul and sense of community. But believe us, it doesn’t...
The Mondrian Wayfarer
From the moment we set foot into the Mondrian on Sunset Boulevard in 2003, we knew we’d stumbled upon something pretty special. Parent company Morgans Hotel Group serve as the Godfathers of the...
The Montauk of it all
Contributor/ Patrick Duffy Just past the pomp and sprawl of the Hamptons sits Montauk Point. Through the years its remained largely untouched by the champagne, caviar, and culture of its glamourous...
Hello Hotel Week
If you’ve been wondering how hotels can change your life, read on. One can easily imagine how excited we got when we heard the chatter about Hotel Week. This slice of hotel-goodness is a week (or...
W/ Liberatum
We love it when hotels embrace their neighbourhoods. It’s a big thing for us, mainly because it means acknowledgment that guests visit a location as much as they visit a hotel, but it also shows us...
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