The Luxury Travel Edit podcast is where leaders of the travel industry share insights about their world-class brands and companies. Hosted by the luxury-travel consultant and journalist John O’Ceallaigh, the series covers all things relating to luxury travel, from hotels to aviation to superyachts.

In this final episode of the first series of the podcast, John speaks to Tom Cahalan. A self-made businessman who developed a taste for luxury travel at a young age, Tom established the infamously blunt and brutal travel blog The Good, The Bad and the Luxurious to document his earliest trips. It quickly drew a community of ultra-high-net-worth travellers who were keen to hear Tom's unfiltered opinions on many of the world's most expensive hotels. This precipitated his creation of the travel agency Dorsia Travel, which caters to that same community. Its trips start from a minimum of $5,000 per couple per day. Here Tom discusses what his customers want, the hotels he loves and the hotels he hates, and what so many hoteliers fail to understand about present-day wealthy travellers.

For more on The Luxury Travel Edit podcast and future episodes, you can follow John O'Ceallaigh on LinkedIn or www.instagram.com/luxurytraveleditor. For more on Dorsia Travel, visit www.dorsiatravel.com.

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The Luxury Travel Edit podcast is where leaders of the travel industry share insights about their world-class brands and companies. Hosted by the luxury-travel consultant and journalist John O’Ceallaigh, the series covers all things relating to luxury travel, from hotels to aviation to superyachts.

In this fifth episode of the first series, John speaks to Dr Jan Stritzke, who is a cardiological expert and a leader at the Lanserhof collection of health clinics in Germany, Austria and the UK. Lanserhof properties host extended and highly advanced medical retreats that are at the forefront of innovations in health and longevity.

In this episode, Dr Stritzke speaks about how ageing may well be a preventable disease and covers some of the basic habits we can follow to improve our quality of health and life drastically. With Lanserhof leading the way, he also tells hoteliers about the tweaks they can make to their own properties to drastically improve the quality and integrity of their own wellness offering. His fascinating insights run from the hospitality industry generally to the changes we all have the power to make to really improve the life we live in a meaningful way.

For more on The Luxury Travel Edit podcast and future episodes, you can follow John O'Ceallaigh on LinkedIn or www.instagram.com/luxurytraveleditor. For more on Regent Hotels & Resorts, visit www.ihg.com/regent.

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The Luxury Travel Edit podcast is where leaders of the travel industry share insights about their world-class brands and companies. Hosted by the luxury-travel consultant and journalist John O’Ceallaigh, the series covers all things relating to luxury travel, from hotels to aviation to superyachts.

In this fourth episode of the first series, John speaks to Tom Rowntree, VP Global Luxury & Lifestyle Brands at InterContinental Hotels Group. In recent years, IHG acquired Regent Hotels - a once great luxury-hotel brand that in recent decades had lost ground to various newcomers. IHG is now in the process of revitalising the brand, which it has reinterpreted for a new and more modern global audience who have vastly different priorities from the first guests to stay with Regent in its 1970s heyday.

Here Tom speaks about just what it takes to develop an ultra-luxury hospitality brand in the present day, and elaborates on how IHG's vast customer insights allow the company to identify emerging trends, future hospitality hotspots and more. The duo also speak about the value of 'super suites' in creating a brand position that will win over UHNW travellers, the essential value of showing meaningful generosity when welcoming big-spending clients, and how some of the best tweaks you can make to service are often completely imperceptible to the guest.

For more on The Luxury Travel Edit podcast and future episodes, you can follow John O'Ceallaigh on LinkedIn or www.instagram.com/luxurytraveleditor. For more on Regent Hotels & Resorts, visit www.ihg.com/regent.

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The Luxury Travel Edit podcast is where leaders of the travel industry share insights about their world-class brands and companies. Hosted by the luxury-travel consultant and journalist John O’Ceallaigh, the series covers all things relating to luxury travel, from hotels to aviation to superyachts.

In the third episode of this inaugural season, John speaks to Ben Lyons, CEO of EYOS. EYOS is an expeditions company that leads complex and intrepid itineraries to remote and dramatic locations around the world. Typically these journeys take place aboard superyachts and attract the world's absolute wealthiest travellers as customers, though new partnerships are now expanding the focus of EYOS to inland destinations as well. Here Ben talks about who his customers are and what drives them, some of the most spectacular adventures EYOS has facilitated, and what even is so special about sailing by superyacht in the first place.

For more on The Luxury Travel Edit podcast and future episodes, you can follow John O'Ceallaigh on LinkedIn and www.instagram.com/luxurytraveleditor. For more on EYOS, visit www.eyos-expeditions.com.

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The Luxury Travel Edit podcast is where leaders of the travel industry share insights about their world-class brands and companies. Hosted by the luxury-travel consultant and journalist John O’Ceallaigh, the series covers all things relating to luxury travel, from hotels to aviation to superyachts.

In this second episode of the podcast's first series, John speaks to Armando Kraenzlin, Four Seasons Regional Vice President & General Manager Four Seasons Resort Maldives. Kraenzlin is now also overseeing the launch of the Four Seasons Explorer Palau expedition ship, which recently launched in this isolated island nation - the fourth-smallest sovereign state in the world. Four Seasons is the first international hospitality brand to establish a presence in this 'untapped' country - a huge opportunity for the brand but also a significant challenge.

In this episode, Armando Kraenzlin speaks about what it takes to launch in a destination that's completely unfamiliar to luxury travelers, and why brands might want to even do that in the first place. As one of the first journalists to experience Four Seasons Explorer Palau, John O'Ceallaigh also discusses his own reflections on what the experience is like in practice. And it turns out that Four Seasons has further plans to open in other unexpected destinations in the future...

For more on The Luxury Travel Edit podcast and future episodes, you can follow John O'Ceallaigh on LinkedIn or www.instagram.com/luxurytraveleditor. For more on Four Seasons Explorer Palau, visit www.fourseasons.com/explorerpalau.

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The Luxury Travel Edit podcast is where leaders of the travel industry share insights about their world-class brands and companies. Hosted by the luxury-travel consultant and journalist John O’Ceallaigh, the series covers all things relating to luxury travel, from hotels to aviation to superyachts.

In this inaugural episode of the podcast, John speaks to Claudia Kozma Kaplan, Senior Vice President & Global Head of Brand at Raffles Hotels & Resorts. Claudia recently returned to the hospitality industry after many years working in fashion and has bold ambitions for the future of the Raffles brand. Among other things, this discussion considers whether celebrity chefs are worth the hype, why you definitely don’t want to describe your hotel as ‘timeless’, and which unexpected property might well be home to the world’s best hotel cinema.

For more on The Luxury Travel Edit podcast and future episodes, you can follow John O'Ceallaigh on LinkedIn or www.instagram.com/luxurytraveleditor. For more on Raffles Hotels & Resorts, visit www.raffles.com.

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