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Ireland has a new Taoiseach: Leo Varadkar, only just 38 years old, a gay doctor whose previous political role was Minister of Transport, Tourism and Sport, which bodes well for Ireland's hospitality industry. One of the first places he visited after his appointment was Dublin's glorious Merrion Hotel (sadly, when he came to…

This is the year of Jane Austen. The 200th anniversary of her death, at only 41, is 18 July 2017. From September she will be the one face…

Having flown across the Atlantic, found immigration at Miami somewhat eased – thank goodness – I travelled north to Surfside. Where is…

How lovely to come into contact with a hidden secret, and like many others, fall in love with it straight away. That is what Pierre Cardin did when he first saw the six-storey Paris house that the Duke of Morny had built in 1854. Morny, the illegitimate son of Hortense de Beauharnais, was Napoleon III's half-brother and, after a…

One of Europe's most famous luxury hotels has undergone such a face-lift that it is more a face transplant. Go into Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin…

Want stunning classical music and sincere luxury? Now is exactly the right time to head to that unique luxury hotel, Hotel Le Negresco Nice, 'Made…

As always, anyone who is anyone in the glorious world of luxury hotels was in Cannes this last week for the 15th annual International Luxury Travel Market. It started officially Monday 15 December 2016, and it ran through Thursday 8 December 2016. And, true to form, CEOs and other top people arranged to be in town just for this…

India's Andaman Islands, in the Indian Ocean, will be the next must-visit destination on traveller's hot lists. I had been there before – briefly,…

When a luxury hotel partners with a health retreat both parties benefit – as do consumers. In the Philippines, for some years now, The Peninsula…

The biennial gathering of Preferred Hotels & Resorts convened Wednesday 12 October 2016, at Palazzo Versace Dubai. And what a suitable spot: four years ago it was The Leela Palace Delhi, two years ago it was Pebble Beach in California, and now here, the Emirate's latest opulent hotel, with crystal toothmugs and…