Equinox Accommodations, a revolutionary chief in high-performance luxurious hospitality, is proud to announce plans for the opening of Equinox Resort Treyam, certainly one of Magna’s twelve locations, positioned 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 places, Equinox Resort Treyam brings Equinox Accommodations’ high-performance life-style 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 trade. Along with providing on the spot quotes and bookings, MIRAI additionally gives discounted real-time Empty Legs flights, the place flexibility is proscribed however costs are decrease.
World of Hyatt is inviting company and members to immerse themselves in memorable out of doors experiences and stays at Beneath Canvas’ 13 out of doors resorts, together with Beneath Canvas’ new luxurious out of doors resort, ULUM Moab. The brand new alliance gives 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 e-book their stays at Beneath Canvas camps and ULUM Moab by way of Hyatt to start out incomes and redeeming factors.
The Beneath 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. Unfold throughout spectacular locations within the U.S., similar 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), Beneath Canvas camps provide extraordinary upscale hospitality, with safari-inspired tents and complimentary programming similar 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 components.
The whole lot you want to plan your journey in 2024
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 company 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 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. Clients can calm down post-flight, use the accessible bathe services, and simply retrieve their checked baggage, guaranteeing a seamless and splendid journey expertise.
Capella Accommodations 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 sort 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 atmosphere of the Hengchun Peninsula to create their refined and complicated masterpiece.
Hilton is increasing its luxurious lodge choices by including practically 400 boutique properties from the Small Luxurious Accommodations of the World assortment. These properties will now be accessible 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 motels, 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 development milestone because the ship touches water for the primary time. With a gross tonnage of 54,300 tons and 499 staterooms for 998 company, the small ship is ready 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 development section, the place water fills the constructing dock, permitting the Viking Vesta to drift.
InterContinental Accommodations & Resorts introduced that InterContinental Bellevue on the Avenue is open to company. This 208-room luxurious lodge, located throughout the $1bn+ Avenue Bellevue advanced developed by Fortress Growth, 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 international vacationers.
Famend life-style lodge 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 lodge has been absolutely renovated to supply company a seamless mix of leisure and enterprise. With its designer areas, informal environment designed to unwind and encourage, and accessible premium service, the lodge is the proper start line to find the native scene within the metropolis.
INNSiDE Braga Centro is within the coronary heart of the town, on Avenida Central, making it straightforward for curious travellers to discover the vacation spot’s most iconic landmarks. Simply steps away from the lodge lie The Portas de Braga and the majestic Sé de Braga Cathedral, two of the 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 ready to start on 27 October 2024, with a frequency of 4 flights per week on Mondays; Wednesdays; Fridays; and Sundays on Airbus A321. Passengers at the moment travelling from Hanoi to Phnom Penh should transit by way of Vientiane, Laos, on the airline’s Indochina service.
This new route will deliver Vietnam Airways’ complete variety of routes between Vietnam and Cambodia to 5 by the tip 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 entire 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 picket vessels. Teams of as much as six individuals can expertise an intimate, timeless journey of the Savannah waterways to soak within the metropolis’s traditional allure and hidden historic gems.
Palace Resort Tokyo, a luxurious property beloved since its opening in 2012, has been awarded Three Keys by the MICHELIN Information. This recognition highlights the lodge’s achievements in delivering the world’s most extraordinary keep experiences.
As certainly one of solely three properties in Tokyo to obtain this prime distinction, Palace Resort Tokyo enhances its popularity as the one Japanese-brand lodge to attain this elite standing. The lodge additionally boasts a Forbes Journey Information 5-Star ranking for 9 consecutive years and not too long ago acquired a 5-Star ranking for its evian SPA TOKYO, certainly one of 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 lodge is redefining luxurious by way of bespoke companies and curated gastronomy, reworking every keep into an unforgettable story you not solely get to inform but in addition form!
A novel museum devoted to ties, the Cravaticum – Museum Boutique of the Cravat, positioned 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 deal with a 400-year-old artifact, this treasure home of ties is much 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 trend accent to the current day. From immersive uniforms of a Cravat regiment to modern designs of Juraj Zigman, the famend Croatian designer 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 ideas 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 may even hyperlink with how native fishermen take pleasure in their delicacies, wherein 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 Journey + Leisure’s readers as one of many World’s Finest Worldwide Airways of 2024. Based mostly 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 checklist. 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, motels 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 Prime 10 Worldwide Airways this yr.
A brand new boat-rental market, Boatsy, is pioneering a brand new approach to e-book crusing holidays. Based by a collective of sea-loving entrepreneurs with roots in tourism and know-how, Boatsy will redefine the buyer expertise of reserving seafaring journeys.
Boatsy goals to rework the standard boat rental course of, turning mere leases into unforgettable experiences, and empowering prospects to seamlessly e-book their itinerary and most well-liked boat in a single streamlined course of. Due to a community of native specialists in key crusing locations, and user-friendly platforms on the internet and cell apps, company 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 doubtlessly sudden gasoline prices, equipping shoppers with all of the must-have info to e-book a profitable vacation at sea.
With quite a lot of tour choices and availability remaining this yr, plus thrilling new alternatives in 2025, AdventureSmith Explorations is the go-to for knowledgeable journey planning.
Experiencing the magic of the enduring Galapagos Islands is in contrast to some other journey on Earth. That’s why the journey specialists 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 modern vessels within the archipelago in the present day. With a variety of latest ships and distinctive itineraries, vacationers are positive to create core reminiscences in one of many world’s most pristine pure environments.
Grand Resort 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. Via years of mastery, Grand Resort Tremezzo’s knowledgeable spa therapists have mastered conventional strategies and now introduce modern remedies, together with the Italian Hammam ritual and the Moroccan Dream Hammam to their spectacular spa menu.
The Pierhouse Resort 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 fans shall be supplied 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 may even host a dinner and an entertaining discuss for company on the Saturday night.
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 ‘Best Travel Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. Along with different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of the world’s best travel blogs” and “best for luxury” by The Telegraph.
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