Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Trends

The socialite - whose great-grandfather Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels - says she is ready to follow in the footsteps of her family as she believes she needs a new challenge in her career. We’ve already seen her become a reality TV star, a singer, have her own fragrances, a clothing line and appear in movies, and apparently she is now ready to try her hand at being a hotelier.

Wondering why you may not be as happy as you’d like? A glance at your passport might give at least one clue. A recent Gallup poll ranked 155 countries on their inhabitants’ well-being, based on in-person and phone surveys. By and large, rich countries are happier — and that’s no coincidence.

hotels have sold everything from beds and bathrobes to candles and a variety of home fragrances. Now the Dorchester Collection has taken this one step further by launching fashion accessories – their reasoning being that there is a Dorchester Collection hotel in every major fashion capital.

Sure, having Wifi on hand is convenient, but what’s the point of a vacation if it’s constantly being interrupted by email? To provide the most relaxing experience, expect to see more hotels and resorts that force (or allow) guests to unplug whilst they unwind, stowing away all electronics upon check in.

Relaxing and luxurious babymoon vacations for parents-to-be have been around for sometime. And so has medical tourism, for those looking to travel overseas for a medical procedure. As far as we know, the Marmara Hotel has created the first babymoon/medical tourism hybrid, a niche they’ve coined “birth tourism.”

A new wave of cool, movable accommodations are appearing and morphing every few months while tying into compatible events. Not always pricey, pop-ups give consumers something they can perceive as an exclusive discovery, to be grabbed “while it lasts.”

Omni Hotels is taking its sensory branding to the next level by making a lasting emotional impression on guests with customized scents “based on the destination’s particular ambiance” which they refer to as the ‘local color’ experience that they’re looking to create for each hotel.

I’ve recently been discussing in online forums a trend that many have been observing in journalism: Recently, there has been a proliferation of so-called “content providers” that carry no real writing credentials, and in many cases, produce articles that don’t even carry a byline. This is an especially big issue in critical journalism, notably, covering luxury products and services where special expertise and connoisseurship are required.

The Wall Street Journal reports that broadcast company, NBC Universal, is taking a new approach to advertising with behavior placement. “In just one week on NBC, the detectives on “Law and Order” investigated a cash-for-clunkers scam, a nurse on “Mercy” organized a group bike ride, Al Gore made a guest appearance on “30 Rock,” and “The Office” turned Dwight Schrute into a cape-wearing superhero obsessed with recycling.”

In case you haven’t noticed, the interest in vampirism has exploded. Media news and Nielsen online have reported the demographics for the growing trend toward vampiric entertainment. According to their reports: “There has been increasing mainstream interest in and gravitation towards all things vampire, most recently spurred by the Twilight books/movies and the HBO series, TrueBlood. And even if these aren’t familiar topics to you yet, marketers are keen to the vampire mystique.”