luxury hotel brands
Amora Beach Resort Phuket Repositions as a Five-Star Property With Multimillion-Dollar Renovation
Amora Group | October 18, 2023
PHUKET, THAILAND – Amora Beach Resort Phuket receives extensive refurbishment costing THB 500 million (US$14 million) as part of its repositioning into a five-star modern lifestyle resort that meets the preferences of active and adventurous couples, friends and families. Located on a private 80m stretch on Bang Tao Beach, the 264-key resort is expected to re-open in December this year with newly built facilities. Owned and operated by Amora Hotels & Resorts, Amora Beach Resort Phuket first opened its doors in 1999 as a four-star resort, and with its refurbishment, serves as the flagship resort for the group in Thailand....
Europe’s Luxury Hotels Bounce Back From the Bottom
HotStats | June 2, 2022
Luxury hotels across Europe have made an about-face and are back to producing profit at the almost same rate as 2019, according to data from HotStats. It’s an extraordinary turn of events for a sector that saw its gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR) plummet during the dark days of the global pandemic, hitting a historical low of-€43.21 in May 2020. Now, March 2022 GOPPAR of €66 is only €4 off its March 2019 number and, at €24.12 year-to-date, it is 187% higher than at the same period a year ago. It’s a striking comeback that is still not complete and more remarkable given the depths of where it came from. The ...
LTI Announces the World’s Best Luxury Hotel Brands 2021
LTI – Luxury Travel Intelligence | October 15, 2021
October 15, 2021 – Welcome to our annual World’s Best Luxury Hotel Brands report. This is not just another World's Best list. LTI – Luxury Travel Intelligence - has taken the past 12 months to apply the perfect assessment process: a rigorously defined algorithm that measures the performance and values of luxury hotel brands. This year, our algorithm has 131 touch points relevant to the luxury hotel sector. Each has its own weighted score value with a total maximum accumulative score of 4736. The touchpoints relate to overall brand performance, rather than the performance of individual properties. It is all about a brand’s abi...
Why Don’t Luxury Hotel Brands Truly Differentiate? Have They Run out of USPs?
Jochen Ehrhardt | June 18, 2019
By Jochen Ehrhardt When Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, once famed co-owners of Studio 54 in New York, opened the Morgans Hotel in 1984 followed by the Royalton and the Paramount Hotel, both designed by Frenchman Philippe Starck, they created instant hits by ushering in a new era of so-called Boutique (Lifestyle) Hotels with “lobby socializing” like never seen before. These cool, hip, and chic spaces drew a crowd of like-minded hotel guests, including the author, as well as residents. For the first time, “luxury” became affordable and hotel bars were no longer money-losing must-haves but New York’s most sophisticated gathering ...
Study by Consultancy, Luxury Branding, Ranks the World’s Most Popular Hotel Brands for 2015
Luxury Branding | October 1, 2015
List includes surprising global winners and losers; underscores the influence of social media and public opinion among high-end consumers LONDON, UK (October 1, 2015)—A new study by Luxury Branding, a London-based consultancy that specializes in the global luxury market, reveals a fresh and unexpected ranking of the most popular high-end hotels and resorts worldwide for 2015. Surprising highlights, based on independent analysis of 2.25 million travellers' reviews, include: The Ritz-Carlton, owned by hotel giant Marriott International, takes top honors by a substantial margin—particularly impressive given its large network ...
