For luxury concierges, personal touch remains key, Hyatt's Wellbeing Ideation Labs, the high-end coffee emporium: A sign of Asia’s changing neighborhoods and Morocco tourism.

For luxury concierges, personal touch remains key
Thursday, 14th March 2019

A group of luxury concierges at the ITB Berlin agreed that the profession’s old rules still ring true: never forget a face and never say no.

Steve Kalthoff, head of the German branch of online luxury concierge Quintesentially agreed, adding that his customers often meld business and pleasure travel, a category his company calls 'bluxury' >>

Six Senses Krabey Island opens in Cambodia
14 Mar 2019 : Six Senses Krabey Island has flung open the doors of its 40 private pool villas to welcome its first guests as they step off the speedboat to this gem of an island hideaway with dense tropical jungle, and rocky coastline surrounded by azure waters >>

Hyatt launches the Hyatt Wellbeing Ideation Labs
14 Mar 2019 : Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced the launch of Hyatt Wellbeing Ideation Labs, a new series designed to bring together industry experts to explore ways to better enhance the day-to-day wellbeing for guests, colleagues and customers >>

Westin Hotels & Resorts champion #JOMO
14 Mar 2019 : Ahead of World Sleep Day, Westin Hotels & Resorts around the world are recognizing the power of #JOMO and in lockstep with a growing global demand for well-being and an increased awareness of the value of self-care, Westin will reward guests who find the ‘Joy of Missing Out’ and take time back for extra sleep, exercise or a break from technology >>

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The High-End Coffee Emporium: A Sign of Asia’s Changing Neighborhoods
Thursday, 14th March 2019

Tokyo’s Nakamenguro neighborhood has come a long way from its days as a backwater industrial area with a polluted river to a popular cherry blossom watching spot during hanami season.

As urbanization surges worldwide, areas once avoided by residents have made roaring comebacks that have changed the physical and cultural fabrics of their cities. With cafes and boutiques often the first sign of change, the evolution of a neighborhood can have a big impact on the entire real estate investment landscape >>

Fosun CEO Says Mattel Learning Clubs Key To Growth
The first of these 'Miniversities' is to open in the Bund Finance Centre in Shanghai. The club is to include a play area, a classroom and day care, retail space featuring Mattel, Club Med and additional Fosun-affiliated products, as well as a food and beverage area >>

Amaze It Forward
You’ve heard of the concept of Pay It Forward, many people use the phrase to describe doing a good deed for someone with no other expectation than that person doing something nice for someone else and so on, creating a chain of good deeds: Don’t pay it back, pay it forward >>

Morocco Tourism: Hotel Developments, Local Tourism and Emerging Source Markets Underpin Growth
Morocco is amongst the best developed tourism markets in Africa, benefitting from its close proximity to Europe.

A wide variety of landscapes and attractions, year-round warm weather in parts of the country, and a more stable political and security environment than some of its regional competitors >>