Luxurious journey information from around the globe (July 2024)

In our newest round-up of luxurious journey information, we convey you a number of essentially the most thrilling updates from the world of high-end journey. From modern developments in non-public jet reserving to new alliances enhancing outside luxurious experiences, our newest version is filled with numerous inspiring developments. Learn on to to study a number of the world’s most interesting lodging developments and the newest information on unique luxurious journey providers.

Equinox Inns, a revolutionary chief in high-performance luxurious hospitality, is proud to announce plans for the opening of Equinox Resort Treyam, one in all 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 beautiful and undiscovered areas, Equinox Resort Treyam brings Equinox Inns’ high-performance life-style to an imposing vacation spot between the mountains and the ocean.

MIRAI is a pioneering non-public jet dealer that has embraced expertise to revolutionise the non-public aviation trade. Along with providing instantaneous 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 friends and members to immerse themselves in memorable outside experiences and stays at Below Canvas’ 13 outside resorts, together with Below Canvas’ new luxurious outside resort, ULUM Moab. The brand new alliance supplies members with unprecedented entry to iconic, upscale experiences throughout many U.S. nationwide parks and different notable outside locations. World of Hyatt members can now guide their stays at Below Canvas camps and ULUM Moab by way of Hyatt to begin incomes and redeeming factors.

The Below Canvas and ULUM outside resorts provide World of Hyatt members a number of the most sought-after and curated luxurious outside experiences. Unfold throughout spectacular locations within the U.S., equivalent to Montana’s Yellowstone Nationwide Park, Tennessee’s Nice Smoky Mountains, Acadia Nationwide Park in Maine and Yosemite Nationwide Park in California (anticipated opening in Might 2025), Below Canvas camps provide extraordinary upscale hospitality, with safari-inspired tents and complimentary programming equivalent to nightly campfires with s’mores, board video games, yoga and child’s actions. The camps additionally provide healthful and nutritious meals and beverage choices by way of modern menus that embrace seasonality and thoughtfully sourced substances.

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

The check-in foyer is furnished with 15 seats and two non-public lounges, accommodating La Première passengers each arriving and departing. Prospects can chill out post-flight, use the obtainable bathe amenities, and simply retrieve their checked baggage, guaranteeing a seamless and splendid journey expertise.

Capella Inns 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 type 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 surroundings of the Hengchun Peninsula to create their refined and complex masterpiece.

Hilton is increasing its luxurious resort choices by including practically 400 boutique properties from the Small Luxurious Inns of the World assortment. These properties will now be obtainable for reserving by way of 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 major building milestone because the ship touches water for the primary time. With a gross tonnage of 54,300 tons and 499 staterooms for 998 friends, the small ship is about to debut in July 2025, providing itineraries within the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

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

InterContinental Inns & Resorts introduced that InterContinental Bellevue on the Avenue is open to friends. This 208-room luxurious resort, located throughout the $1bn+ Avenue Bellevue complicated developed by Fortress Improvement, 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 change into a premier vacation spot for native, regional, and world vacationers.

Famend life-style 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 contemporary resort has been absolutely renovated to supply friends a seamless mix of leisure and enterprise. With its designer areas, informal ambiance designed to unwind and encourage, and accessible premium service, the resort is the proper start line to find the native scene within the metropolis. 

INNSiDE Braga Centro is within the coronary heart of town, on Avenida Central, making it simple for curious travellers to discover the vacation spot’s most iconic landmarks. Simply 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 Airways has introduced the launch of a nonstop service between Hanoi and Phnom Penh. Moreover, the airline has signed cooperation agreements with key companions in Cambodia to foster aviation and tourism growth between the 2 international locations.  The brand new route is about to begin 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 by way of Vientiane, Laos, on the airline’s Indochina service. 

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

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

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

As one in all solely three properties in Tokyo to obtain this prime distinction, Palace Lodge Tokyo enhances its fame as the one Japanese-brand resort to realize this elite standing. The resort additionally boasts a Forbes Journey Information 5-Star score for 9 consecutive years and just lately obtained a 5-Star score for its evian SPA TOKYO, one in all solely 4 in Japan.

Perched atop Santorini‘s highest level in Imerovigli village, Kivotos Santorini invitations you to bask within the lap of personalised luxurious. From the second you arrive, each facet of your expertise at this elegant hideaway is meticulously customised to fit your preferences, fashion and aesthetic. Right here’s a glimpse into how this stylish and cavernous boutique resort is redefining luxurious by way of bespoke providers and curated gastronomy, reworking every keep into an unforgettable story you not solely get to inform but in addition form! 

A singular 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.

Regardless of its concentrate on a 400-year-old artifact, this treasure home of ties is much from outdated. Cravaticum celebrates each the introduction of the cravat, delivered to the world by the Croatian troopers within the seventeenth century, and the evolution of this style accent to the current day. From immersive uniforms of a Cravat regiment to modern 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, Eating on the Rocks, for 2 evenings this August to showcase Chef Prin’s distinctive cooking idea.

Chef Prin’s culinary ideas is to protect conventional Thai cooking methods and long-lost recipes dated again to the period of King Rama VI and reinterpret them utilizing seasonal native substances embodying his ethos of residing in concord with nature’s cycles. His menu for this take over in Samui will even hyperlink with how native fishermen take pleasure in their delicacies, during which Chef Prin and his staff beforehand had their experiences first-hands.

EVA Air, Taiwan’s main impartial airline, has received but extra accolades, this time from Journey + Leisure’s  readers as one of many World’s Finest Worldwide Airways of 2024. Primarily based on their experiences with cabin consolation, inflight service, customer support and worth, readers responding to the publication’s annual “World’s Finest Awards” survey ranked EVA tenth on the listing. Survey outcomes can be found on the “Journey + Leisure” web site . 

The “World’s Finest Awards” survey covers 125 classes and roughly 186,000 “Journey + 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 Airways, La Compagnie, Emirates, All Nippon Airways, Qatar Airways, Korean Air, Japan Airways, Thai Airways Worldwide and Etihad Airways, has been chosen as one of many High 10 Worldwide Airways this 12 months.

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

Boatsy goals to remodel the traditional boat rental course of, turning mere leases into unforgettable experiences, and empowering prospects to seamlessly guide their itinerary and most popular boat in a single streamlined course of. Because of a community of native specialists in key crusing locations, and user-friendly platforms on the net and cellular apps, friends have ultimate-autonomy, and may even ‘instantaneous guide’ their journey. The platform reduces gray areas and guarantees the utmost predictability of any journey, from the finer particulars of an itinerary to probably surprising gasoline prices, equipping customers with all of the must-have data to guide a profitable vacation at sea.

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

Experiencing the magic of the long-lasting Galapagos Islands is in contrast to another journey on Earth. That’s why the journey specialists at AdventureSmith Explorations, the chief in small-ship journey cruises, have curated a set of Galapagos cruises that invite vacationers to embark on the journey of a lifetime aboard a number of the most luxurious and modern vessels within the archipelago as we speak. With a spread of latest ships and distinctive itineraries, vacationers are certain to create core recollections in one of many world’s most pristine pure environments.

Grand Lodge Tremezzo – the epitome of class, deeply rooted in conventional Italian values of household and hospitality – has proudly unveiled an enhanced spa and wellness program at T Spa. By years of mastery, Grand Lodge Tremezzo’s knowledgeable spa therapists have mastered conventional methods and now introduce modern remedies, together with the Italian Hammam ritual and the Moroccan Dream Hammam to their spectacular spa menu.

The Pierhouse Lodge 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 shall 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 will even host a dinner and an entertaining speak for friends on the Saturday night.

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Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxurious Journey Weblog and has labored within the journey trade for greater than 30 years. He’s Winner of the Improvements in Journey ‘Finest Journey Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. Along with different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of many world’s greatest journey blogs” and “greatest for luxurious” by The Telegraph.