This luxury travel market bounces back after two difficult seasons, but today is a prosperous tourist spurning the excess of the boom years of supporting the authentic experience.
"2009 has been a challenging year for the luxury travel industry, but we see recovery in 2010," Nick Perry, chairman Ultratravel magazine, told a forum at the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes last week.
Super-rich travel sector, which caters to rock diva, millionaire tycoons and happy out of money for such a unique experience just a short trip outside the earth's atmosphere, remain unaffected by the economic downturn.
But the high-end corporate travel sector has fallen by 25 percent and the entertainment market has offset this decline, executives said at the two-day conference in this French Riviera resort.
"We still have some business from the family, and like the Christmas season booked out. Luxury travelers are not ready to forget their annual family trip," said Paul Jones, chairman and Only One Resorts.
Rich but not uber wealthy tourists have started to hunt for attractive prices on the Internet and ask for discounts, executives said the conference is more than 3 000 of the world's leading luxury travel suppliers and buyers.
This search cost conscious that offers luxury travel and eco-friendly values seems set to continue and also put pressure on the travel industry to respond to new expectations.
"The bling has gone. It's all about the quality of experience and sense of space," the award highlighted the hotel and restaurant designer Glenn Pushelberg.
Given the high cost of housing in the major cities, a new luxury living today, according to Sonu Shivdasani, founder and CEO of Six Senses group, which has been a pioneer in sustainable tourism.
His group also found a new explanation for the "super" suite.
Forget the presidential suite, the lovers are willing to pay between $ 6 000 and $ 8 000 (about R40 000 and R60 000) a night, can now book "reserve" on the new Soneva Kiri Six Senses on a tropical island in Thailand Kood.
Massive 1 001 square meters with a spacious wooden villas own 209 square meter swimming pool and a tree house for children is probably the largest of any resort, said the six senses' chief commercial officer Vincent Gillet.
There are also guest does not need to feel guilty about it as a luxury resort grow their own organic products, using solar power and also involve the local community, who helped build it.
Experience-driven destinations in Latin America, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are the hot tips, while Beirut, Madeira and Morocco are also a place to watch.
Bahrain with a rich history, culture and cuisine is widely expected to become the new fashion destination Middle East.
Increasing the number of tourists able to find one that goes beyond the experience of luxury and even prove life-changing.
Ritz-Carlton in Cancun, offering guests the opportunity to volunteer for community work in local villages.
Travel Indagare Melissa Biggs Bradley said conference participants how to help one of his clients at a local orphanage during holidays and returned overseas regularly to support them.
Space travel also looks ready to take off, with no shortage of people willing to pay the astronomical amount of light as an astronaut floating in specially modified aircraft.
Tom Shelley, Vice President of Space Adventures, the only company so far has sent citizens above the atmosphere, said the 2008 and 2009 was their most successful year since the business began in 1998.
And this week's news that British billionaire Sir Richard Branson is ready to test a rocket ship that will carry paying passengers into space could add a new dimension to the world of luxury travel. - AFP
"2009 has been a challenging year for the luxury travel industry, but we see recovery in 2010," Nick Perry, chairman Ultratravel magazine, told a forum at the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes last week.
Super-rich travel sector, which caters to rock diva, millionaire tycoons and happy out of money for such a unique experience just a short trip outside the earth's atmosphere, remain unaffected by the economic downturn.
But the high-end corporate travel sector has fallen by 25 percent and the entertainment market has offset this decline, executives said at the two-day conference in this French Riviera resort.
"We still have some business from the family, and like the Christmas season booked out. Luxury travelers are not ready to forget their annual family trip," said Paul Jones, chairman and Only One Resorts.
Rich but not uber wealthy tourists have started to hunt for attractive prices on the Internet and ask for discounts, executives said the conference is more than 3 000 of the world's leading luxury travel suppliers and buyers.
This search cost conscious that offers luxury travel and eco-friendly values seems set to continue and also put pressure on the travel industry to respond to new expectations.
"The bling has gone. It's all about the quality of experience and sense of space," the award highlighted the hotel and restaurant designer Glenn Pushelberg.
Given the high cost of housing in the major cities, a new luxury living today, according to Sonu Shivdasani, founder and CEO of Six Senses group, which has been a pioneer in sustainable tourism.
His group also found a new explanation for the "super" suite.
Forget the presidential suite, the lovers are willing to pay between $ 6 000 and $ 8 000 (about R40 000 and R60 000) a night, can now book "reserve" on the new Soneva Kiri Six Senses on a tropical island in Thailand Kood.
Massive 1 001 square meters with a spacious wooden villas own 209 square meter swimming pool and a tree house for children is probably the largest of any resort, said the six senses' chief commercial officer Vincent Gillet.
There are also guest does not need to feel guilty about it as a luxury resort grow their own organic products, using solar power and also involve the local community, who helped build it.
Experience-driven destinations in Latin America, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are the hot tips, while Beirut, Madeira and Morocco are also a place to watch.
Bahrain with a rich history, culture and cuisine is widely expected to become the new fashion destination Middle East.
Increasing the number of tourists able to find one that goes beyond the experience of luxury and even prove life-changing.
Ritz-Carlton in Cancun, offering guests the opportunity to volunteer for community work in local villages.
Travel Indagare Melissa Biggs Bradley said conference participants how to help one of his clients at a local orphanage during holidays and returned overseas regularly to support them.
Space travel also looks ready to take off, with no shortage of people willing to pay the astronomical amount of light as an astronaut floating in specially modified aircraft.
Tom Shelley, Vice President of Space Adventures, the only company so far has sent citizens above the atmosphere, said the 2008 and 2009 was their most successful year since the business began in 1998.
And this week's news that British billionaire Sir Richard Branson is ready to test a rocket ship that will carry paying passengers into space could add a new dimension to the world of luxury travel. - AFP
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