10 November 2022
One Fine Mess?
Luxury villa rentals is a buoyant market, which positively grew through the pandemic, but we find this to be an immature industry ripe for service improvement and experience innovation.
Industry
10 November 2022
20 October 2022
Luxury Mauritius Hotel Group, Sun Resorts, enters a new era as Sunlife
Sun Resorts with whom Luxury Partners first worked in 2001, today announces its brand-led transformation.
26 September 2022
Piers Schmidt visits Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
In late September 2022, in his capacity as Adjunct Professor, Piers Schmidt visited Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland to guest lecture on the prestigious hospitality business school’s MBA programme.
26 August 2022
Maverick Hospitality
Having worked together as colleagues and collaborators for more than 20 years, Kingham Leigh formalises a marriage between the consulting expertise of Piers Schmidt and the senior corporate experience of Ian R Douglas.
2 August 2022
Brand Extension
Luxury Partners is experienced at translating consumer brands into the hospitality sector. Piers Schmidt was interviewed recently by Laura Powell for her piece on consumer brand extension for Hospitality Insights.
7 July 2022
Opinion Piece by Libby Hudson
‘From Magazine to Hotel: Curators or Creators?’ is a critical Op-ed authored by Libby Hudson who joined Luxury Partners as a summer intern in July 2022.
13 June 2022
Villa Vamos
Luxury Partners was engaged by Villa Hotels & Resorts to design and lead a five-day Discovery Expedition in Cape Town, South Africa. Its purpose to inspire 30 leaders from the company towards a brand-led transformation from Good to Great.
1 June 2022
EHL’s Associate Professor Demian Hodari interviews Piers Schmidt
During Piers Schmidt’s visit in May 2022 to guest lecture on the Master of Business Administration in Hospitality, Piers was interviewed by Associate Professor of Strategic Management Demian Hodari, PhD for his ‘Managing Underperforming Properties’ course.
1 April 2022
This Little Piggy Went to Market
An affiliate of U.S. private equity fund KSL Capital Partners has acquired the parent company of United Kingdom boutique hotel chain The Pig Hotels. Piers Schmidt comments for Hotel News Now.
17 November 2021
Hospitality Talks features Piers Schmidt
Customer expectations are rising, and marketers are frantically trying to keep up in a world where connected and real-time experiences are considered the norm when interacting with brands.
