The cliche is that ‘luxury travel’ means something different to every traveller, and like every cliche, it contains more than a grain of truth.
On one end of the scale lies gold-plated opulence and 24-7 stimulation; on the other understated chic and total privacy. And at some point between the two lies your client’s ideal holiday.
But whatever your personal definition of luxury, to travel agents the market means big-value bookings, wealthy clients and a huge range of interesting product to sell. It’s worth staying up to date, so bookmark this page for a stream of our luxury travel news and features, plus selected articles from elsewhere.
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If you’re selling luxury travel, take a look at what our sponsor Sandals has to offer below.
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Luxury travel on Travel Weekly
- 9 Caribbean resorts that luxury specialists love [Features, June 2010]
- 5 luxury holiday ideas from tour operator bosses [Features, March 2010]
- Up-and-coming luxury destinations [Feature, October 2009]
- Luxury Top 10: Operators choose the best top-end destinations [Feature, May 2009]
Luxury selling tips
- Sandals expert Leah Marshall on selling luxury all-inclusives
- Two expert agents on selling premium travel
Luxury travel articles from other travel publications
Selected by Travel Weekly editors
- Five luxury Bauhaus hotels [The Independent]
- Staying in Spain’s paradors for a luxurious holiday experience [Mail Online]
- Marlon Brando’s Private Island to be Luxury Eco-Resort [Luxury Travel Magazine]
- Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast scores its largest resort [Globorati]
- Unusual requests from luxury travellers [Great Hotels of the World]
Sandals and Beaches
Scattered on the five dreamlike Caribbean islands of Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua, the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos, are Sandals & Beaches, the world’s only Luxury Included® resorts – and sponsors of Travel Weekly’s Luxury page.
Accommodation to suit everyone…
Each Sandals resort has been designed with romance in mind and Beaches with families, whilst offering sophistication combined with facilities that are unrivalled.
Sandals & Beaches philosophy is to consistently exceed expectations, with exceptional quality and service. Luxury Included® provides those little extras that truly make a stay as lavish as possible, such as:
- Suites with their own personal Butler and private plunge pool
- Egyptian cotton sheets in top suites
- High quality furnishings, such as mahogany four-poster beds and marble bathrooms
- Restaurants serving the freshest local shellfish with white glove service
- Beringer® pouring wines as standard
- In room bar with premium branded spirits, refilled daily
- Scuba diving in top of the range, purpose built Newton dive boats
- Championship golf courses in Jamaica & St. Lucia
- Private offshore islands with exotic Zen spas
