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21% Of Global Travel Spending Will Come From Chinese Tourists In 2018
The total revenue generated by in the travel and hospitality industry by tourists from China continues to grow in 2018. The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates that spending from Chinese tourists overseas now represents 21% of the global tourism spending. Interestingly, Chinese traveller spends on average more per person per trip than tourists from any other country in the world. source: Luxe Digital The impact of Chinese tourists on the luxury industry is thus remarkable. Hotels, restaurants and retailers all need to adjust their offering if they want to attract these new consumers. In a new report, Luxe Digital identifies four essential trends that are reshaping the luxury…
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Hong Kong’s New, Creative Heart: Victoria Dockside, The $2.6 Billion USD Art And Design District
New World Development, a leader in property, retail and hotel development, last year announced its plans for Victoria Dockside, a $2.6 billion, 3 million square foot art and design district, on the promenade of Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Set to fully open in 2019, the mixed-use development will offer Grade A office space, an ultra-luxury Rosewood Hotel, Rosewood Residences, and premier art, design and leisure experiences with views of Victoria Harbor and Hong Kong Island. But in April, 2018, Victoria Dockside’s newest event, #MakeWaves, is set to begin. It will take place at the K11 ATELIER, a creative workspace in the new Victoria Dockside neighborhood, set to reinvigorate…
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Adrian Cheng’s LUXBA Group And Luxury Footwear Label, Sergio Rossi, Announce New Growth Collaboration
LUXBA Group, Hong Kong’s leading luxury fashion brand management and distribution house, recently announced a new collaboration with Italian luxury footwear label Sergio Rossi. The new partnership focuses on accelerating Sergio Rossi’s growth in the complex China market, while also strengthening LUXBA Group’s presence in the fashion industry. Luxury brands associated with LUXBA gain invaluable insights on how Chinese millennials and Gen Z’s consume, and what they desire in luxury brands. Founded by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng in 2007, LUXBA Group is an all-encompassing fashion, lifestyle, brand management, and distribution company based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The new collaboration allows Sergio Rossi to leverage LUXBA Group’s unique expertise to penetrate…
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An Homage to Culture With A Cinematic Flow: The Baku Flame Towers In Azerbaijan
If there has ever been a country defined by wealth and power, in both positive and challenging ways, it is Azerbaijan. Though independent now, the country has been occupied by multiple conquering hordes: those of Cyrus The Great, Alexander The Great, the Seljuks, the Mongols, the Persians, the Russians, the Ottomans and the Soviets. But since 1991, Azerbaijan is free, and exceptionally wealthy due to their vast oil and gas reserves. The country is on the western tip of the Caspian Sea, and is literally at the crossroads between Western Asia and Eastern Europe, as it borders Russia to the North; Georgia and Armenia to the West and Iran to…
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LOUIS XIII Le Salmanazar presents the one-and-only 9-liter decanter
LOUIS XIII Le Salmanazar A landmark creation and decanter at the peak of art is unique in its mastery, size and stature, the creation called for over 20 master crystal-craftsmen to handle the over 15 kilos of crystal. With skills drawing from this elite body of artisans and their combined expertise worked together through the blaze of the furnace to the calm atelier, each aspect from the dentelles to the fleur-de-lys stopper, all molded by the master crystal artists, choreographed and executed with finesse. To accomplish this great challenge, that only masters could create, LOUIS XIII turned to Baccarat, creators of the first LOUIS XIII decanter. With only one in…
Ode to Luxury and The Art of Life
