Interviews

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact for tourism and hotel operators in New Zealand over the past 5 weeks or so since the government locked down borders to visitors. This week, LATTE chatted with Kiwi tourism figurehead and CEO/General Manager of The Rees Hotel Queenstown, Mark Rose, to get an update on how his luxury property is…

This week LATTE chats with the team at Quark Expeditions, in Australia and based in Toronto, to learn how the polar expedition specialist is handling the…

This week LATTE chats with Evan Petrelis, the Managing Director of Renaissance Tours. Evan joined Renaissance Tours in mid-2016 after a successful 20-year…

As ILTM (International Luxury Travel Market) Asia Pacific draws nearer, LATTE recently spoke with ILTM Portfolio Director, Alison Gilmore, to find out the benefits of attending for hosted buyers. Here is what Alison had to say in our exclusive one-on-one interview.

This week LATTE chats with the General Manager of one of the Maldives' newest luxury retreats, the InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort which opened…

Dream Cruises is one of the newest cruise lines to operate in the Australian market, deploying its newest ship Explorer Dream to local waters in October. The…

Washington DC welcomed a record 23.8 million visitors in 2018, a figure that was up 4.4% year-on-year. That figure was overwhelmingly weighted by domestic travellers (21.9 million), with the US Capital's international markets (excluding northern and southern neighbours, Canada and Mexico) accounting for 1.9 million down more than 5% compared to the…

This week LATTE chats with Jarrod Zurvas, Quark Expeditions' Regional Sales Director, Asia Pacific. Jarrod has been in the travel industry for over 10 years and…

This week LATTE chats exclusively with the President of Sri Lankan travel company, Authenticities. Shanitha Fernando shares with us the ethos of Authenticities,…

Next month she starts her sea trials, and in less than 200 days Virgin Voyages' first of four ocean cruise ships, Scarlet Lady, will enter service under the startup cruise line's "epic sea change".