ELITE TRAVEL TRENDS
ELITE TRAVEL TRENDS Hotel & Tourism SMARTreport #41 2019 Winter Edition 17 17 © Simo Räsänen THE LUXURY BUCKET-LIST… MORE EXTRAVAGANT AND CRAZY THAN EVER In the next pages, we examine some key trends in luxury travel, spotlighting two big end of year events – the Signature Network meeting in Las Vegas, and ILTM Cannes. At the latter, Virtuoso named its selection of the nine “must-have” experiences for 2019. They include skydiving in New Zealand, cruising the Norwegian fjords to the North Cape to mark the summer solstice on June 21, traveling by luxury rail from Paris to Istanbul on the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, savouring an incomparable culinary experience in Barcelona by dining at Tickets, helmed by the Adrià brothers of El Bulli fame, visiting the beaches of Normandy in northern France on a river cruise to commemorate the 75 th anniversary of D-Day, taking-in a Rugby World Cup match in 2019 host country Japan, exploring the undersea world by submarine at the Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru, viewing the 2019 solar eclipse July 2 with a glamping experience in Northern Chile, then cap off the trip by heading south to wine country… and calling on Croatia’s coastal communities from the comfort of a private yacht. What tops YOUR clients’ bucket list? Austnesfjorden, Austvågøya, Lofoten, Norway
