Reporting on where to stay, where to eat and who built it, from the week's openings and the people behind them.
A tented camp on stilts in Kafue National Park, three new treetop lodges in Touraine and a year-long renovation in Moab all claim the wilderness as their subject. Only one of them lets the site set the terms.
Massachusetts's commuter harbours, an island that empties in September and a Portland hotel scene that has finally caught up. Read as one corridor rather than three separate trips, New England's summer coast rewards precise timing more than budget.
Twenty-nine rooms in North Beach, 262 in Santa Monica, butler-delivered pina coladas in San Juan and a Great Lakes pitch with no hotels attached. The domestic shoreline is absorbing serious money, and not where you would expect.
Providenciales is closing on two million visitors a year. Eight point two square miles away, South Caicos has two luxury hotels and no public transport. Panama's Bocas del Toro is one stage behind, and Hawaii's Kohala Coast shows how the story ends.
Aspen Hospitality is spinning The Little Nell into a brand, Pelican Hill becomes the first St. Regis Estate, Marriott signs two all-inclusive conversions with Catalonia, and Accor commits 5,300 rooms in Vietnam with Sun Group.
Ageing well has been repackaged as a clinic-grade protocol. Read The Wordrobe's seven everyday rituals against the shelves of a Paris parapharmacie and the honest conclusion is that six of the seven cost nothing, and only two things on the counter earn their place in your bag.
Hong Kong's hotels have stopped treating drinks as an amenity and started building programmes that compete with the city's best independents. Singapore is doing the same thing with heritage. One of those strategies is easier to fake than the other.
The luxury group has hired the former Urban Resort Concepts chief executive to oversee global operations across Aman, Janu and its branded residence and lifestyle businesses.
A model room in Costalegre, 71 villas in Coorg and 15 suites above Lake Wakatipu suggest wellness has stopped being an amenity and become the organising principle. Some of these projects mean it. Some are renting the language for a season.
Arcora in Finnish Lapland, a nine-suite lodge coming to the Uluru dunes, Segera in Laikipia and a carbon-positive merino station in Central Otago all point the same way: the landscape is doing the work the spa used to do.
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