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The Lux Collective launches advertising campaign and consumer magazine

The global Life Extraordinary campaign focuses on its flagship brand LUX, and includes the launch of a magazine for travellers

Oetker Collection to open its first USA hotel in 2023

The brand will open its first stateside property with The Vineta Hotel in Palm Beach, scheduled for late 2023

WTM 2022: Onyx hospitality unveils big new expansion plans

Hotel group Onyx Hospitality will be highlighting its expansion plans with a focus on its home destination of Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia

Video: Agents share their highlights from TTG and Iberostar fam to Majorca

Hear from some of the eight travel agents who joined the TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes fam to Majorca to discover Iberostar’s Wave of Change sustainability movement

The hotel group that's good for your clients and the planet

Eight travel agents recently travelled to Majorca to ride Iberostar’s Wave of Change sustainability movement and improve their knowledge of responsible travel

Kelly Fagan appointed Palladium business development executive

Alongside senior business development advisor Joanne Peters, Fagan will work to promote the hotel group and grow brand awareness amongst agents

Ex-AmaWaterways boss Stuart Perl set to return with new river line

The former Amawaterways managing director will take the lead on a German hotelier’s entrance into the river cruise market as Riverside Luxury Cruises

CV Villas hires Caribbean expert Marc McCollin

Former Barbados Tourism senior business development officer Marc McCollin to bring two decades’ experience to new destination expert role with villa specialist

Is this London’s most Christmassy luxury hotel?

Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane is offering a huge snowglobe, a hot chocolate cart and Christmas tree decoration kits

Sun Resorts rebrands as Sunlife and unveils hotel renovations

The Mauritian hotel group has rebranded, unveiling renovations at several of its properties and a range of new guest experiences

Rosewood Milan slated to debut in 2025

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will open the Rosewood Milan in 2025, becoming the brand’s fourth hotel in Italy

The Chedi El Gouna to launch in December

The property is set to open in the Egyptian resort on 1 December, offering 82 rooms and suites

Edinburgh tourist tax comes closer to being introduced

Edinburgh set to be the first Scottish destination to introduce a tourist tax

Solmar adds Amalfi coast to European villa collection

A new collection of properties in the Italian region have been unveiled by the company

Leading Hotels of the World seeing ‘extraordinary growth’

The international hotel collection has seen suite and villa bookings, average daily rates and revenue surge during 2022

Four Seasons announces new president and chief executive

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has named former Apple Leisure Group chief Alejandro Reynal as its new president and chief executive

Onefinestay launches trade partner platform

The luxury private rental specialist has launched a Partner Portal, offering agents training and a range of pre-made marketing materials

Nine weddings and honeymoons updates you need to know

FLOATING DINNER

Couples staying at Sun Siyam Olhuveli can now enjoy a four-course dinner with wine while floating gently on a private pontoon in the resort’s protected lagoon. Resort is bookable through Gold Medal, If Only and Hummingbird. sunsiyam.com

The Hoxton set to debut raft of new European hotels

Lifestyle brand plans rapid expansion with seven new hotels planned across Europe

What does the cost of living crisis really mean for travel?

These are the questions TTG will be asking in the latest Agenda 2022: New Year New Fears? seminar taking place on the afternoon of 1 November.

The free-to-attend event will begin at 2pm and will feature exclusive data collected by PwC and TTG examining consumer attitudes to travel in the current climate, as well as data from travel chief executives as to how confident they’re feeling about the months ahead.

Webinar: Stuba announces brand-new hotel search

Stuba reveals details of its brand-new hotel search, which uses curated collections to help agents make bookings more quickly and efficiently to boost profits and reputations

Cruise ships considered as Liverpool hotels sell out for Eurovision '23

Hotels have started selling out following the announcement the city is to host European competition

New Lux overwater resort in Vietnam a ‘first for the region’

The Lux Collective will open a Maldivian-style luxury overwater resort in Vietnam under the Lux brand in late 2024

Belmond launches new luxury river ship in France

Coquelicot will sail ’bespoke itineraries’ and take travellers ’deeper into the effervescence’ of Champagne