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It's that time again: ILTM Cannes time. This year between 3–6 December 2018 it attracted 1,880 exhibitors from 101 countries, plus, from 80 countries, 1,816 invited 'buyers' (travel advisors from one person through to billion-dollar companies).

Park Hyatt Sydney was deemed best hotel, Australasia, at the Ultras, held in Dubai on 21 November 2018.  The Ultras are honestly now the most global luxury…

There is excellent air connection between Australia and Mauritius via Singapore Airlines, and, once on the Indian Ocean island, plenty of luxury resorts await.…

New York's 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge has so many touchpoints I keep on thinking, in retrospect, of yet more things. Opened in February 2017, it is adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge Park, a conversion, thanks to then-Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, from old warehouses. It is an 11-floor structure, a glass and metal new-build by Marvel Architects, with…

Shanghai is one of those world cities that seems to launch new luxury hotels with every new moon, and of course, all of them seem to be successful in an…

Girlahead Mary Gostelow explores three of Beijing's newest luxury properties: The Peninsula Beijing, Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center and Bulgari Hotel…

The Indonesian capital has many splendid hotels, and there are several additions coming up within the next three years. In Mary Gostelow's column this week she takes us from the historic Hotel Indonesia Kempinski to the modern Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta Capital Place.

Many had waited with anticipation to see the stunning new Murray in Hong Kong. Ever since the 25-floor, open-square building was designed by Ron Phillips in…

Tel Aviv is fast becoming one of the world's most with-it beach destinations – think Bondi, or, in the US, Miami Beach in Florida, Venice in California. Now, at…

When Australians first enter the lobby of Trump International Hotel Washington DC they invariably cast their eyes nine floors up to the glass ceiling over its football field-sized – and they gaze in awe, says the hotel's MD, Mickael Damelincourt. He is probably there to see this. He uses one of the tables in the lobby lounge as his all-day office,…