09/09/2022
We join the nation in sorrow and condolence for the loss of our treasured monarch, and remember in celebration the life that was lived and the memories that will live on for all eternity.
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17/05/2022
Vacationing in space could become a reality in just three years.
On Tuesday, Orbital Assembly Corp. announced plans for two space stations with tourist accommodations. Pioneer Station, which can host 28 people, is set to be operational by 2025, while the larger Voyager Station, which was originally announced in 2021 with a capacity of 400 people, is scheduled to open in 2027.
"For the average person, being in space will be a sci-fi dream experience," says Tim Alatorre, Chief Operating Officer for Orbital Assembly Corp (OAC), said in a press release.
"Our vision is to make space a destination people will yearn to visit, with familiar elements provided by the presence of gravity," he added.
OAC is creating the world's first hybrid space stations for both work and play.
They will feature artificial gravity which will allow guests to move around as they normally would, rather than in a weightless environment. The technology is not currently available on space stations, according to the release.
05/05/2022
Mary took an opportunity to share her recent thoughts and updates. ☀️
05/04/2022
Maldives had to wait a long time – but now, anonymous as yet, someone is going to pursue a Mandarin Oriental, set for 2025. 110 villas plus 10 branded residences across 3 private islands on Bolidhuffaru Reef in South Male Atoll.
The resort is currently under development on a pristine Indian Ocean site and will stretch across three private islands on Bolidhuffaru Reef in South Male Atoll, accessed by an easy 20-minute speedboat ride from Male’s Velana international airport.
Surrounded by white sand beaches and the vibrant coral reefs for which The Maldives is renowned, the resort will provide a picturesque backdrop from which to enjoy a variety of activities including wellness experiences and watersports.
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31/03/2022
London The Berkeley managed to divert a French pastry chef from another luxury hotel – and, as a result, Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley opened 0800 on Valentine’s Day. What Grolet calls his pastry lab, designed by Remi Tessier in a sea of white stone and polished stainless steel, under a gold leaf gilded ceiling. Book here for 10.30, 1pm or 3.30 seating-for-8-max, £135 each ++. Expect more social media buzz to add to Cédric Grolet’s 2.2m followers, gained for his 2 Paris labs.
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16/03/2022
Munich Mandarin Oriental Matsuhisa, nearly exclusively local guests, sees current spend €35 higher than 3 years ago – by contrast, best-selling room service orders now include cobb salad, added after md Dominik Reiner, hosting his apprentices for dinner, asked where they would like to go and they said Hard Rock.
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10/03/2022
St-Tropez, say some, will ultimately benefit from the current Netflix Emily in Paris: producer Darren Star, who earlier did S*x and the City, had Emily (Lily Collins) arrive in ‘St-Tropez’, which has no station, by train, and her St-Tropez hotel is in fact the Blavatnik-owned Grand Hôtel St- Jean Cap-Ferrat Four Seasons – but hotels.com claims interest in St-Tropez has upped 40%.
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09/03/2022
MICHAEL HOLTZ the ultimate jetsetter
It is an understatement simply to call Smart Flyer a travel advisor, agent or consultant, and anyway, who cares?
This is a highly-respected, well-mannered
New Yorker who, with a BSc in industrial
engineering under his belt, founded a company that is, over 3 decades later, far more than a collective of 250+ travel professionals in the USA, Europe and
Australia • For them, SmartFlyer is a community built on education and collaboration.
For the rest of the travel industry, it is one essential barometer for high-end global travel. For consumers, SmartFlyer acts as an insurance policy in its own right. And for
all industry sectors – including media – SmartFlyer organises gatherings that rival those put on by companies whose sole purpose is events.
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08/03/2022
Saluting International Women's Day, and the current star of MARY GOSTELOW GIRLAHEAD PODCAST, Anne Golden, GM of the superb new Pan Pacific Hotel London. I salute also other PODCAST stars, including IHG's Jane Mackie, Marriott's Tina Edmundson, and Karen Roos - The Newt, Somerset.
24/02/2022
Prayers up for Ukraine 🇺🇦
23/02/2022
LVMH puts fashion into other spaces: Off White’s soul, the late Virgil Abloh, designed a see-through Rimowa suitcase that immediately sold out, and now, 5th January, Dior launches all-white Technogym workout equipment, initially in pop-up gyms.
These Technogym pieces have been reinvented by Dior, created in a white design which features the Dior star, the founder's lucky charm. The name 'Christian Dior' is also embellished on the equipment, alongside five horizontal stripes in contrasting hues, a house signature.
15/02/2022
February 2022 is out now!
15/02/2022
Miami Waldorf Astoria complex looks sensational – 9 glass blocks set lopsided above each other, total 100 floors containing a 205- room hotel and 360 residences: opening 2025, developers include Greybrook, Mohari, PMG and S2, architects Carlos Ott and Sieger Suarez, interiors Bamo
10/02/2022
Mohammed el Bahrawy is ceo/founder of the eponymous group planning to open its first ‘floating palace’, Dubai Kempinski, late 2023 – and he is already planning Sochi, his wife’s home town, followed by Egypt’s Mediterranean coast west of Alexandria, and somewhere in Thailand. The 165- room (40sq m up) eco-friendly Dubai structure currently being built in Ras el Khaimah’s shipyards will be towed round to Dubai, 1.5 km south of Jumeirah Beach Four Seasons, and held in place by 16 hydraulic pillars. Attached to this, by static walkways, are 12 villas, for sale or rent, 2-4- bedrooms each (4 are already sold). The entire project is fashioned from marine-standard Russian and Ukrainian steel, with interiors designed by Kempinski, whom Mohammed el Bahrawy chose a partner for a multitude of reasons, including what he calls back-garden hospitality experience, their professional customer satisfaction and their access to Global Hotel Alliance GHA. The el Bahrawy Group, based in Sharm el Sheikh, has been involved in law, plus shipping, since 1980. It has built 18 Nile cruise ships and other vessels: today, conveniently for Mohammed el Bahrawy, one brother is a banker, another a lawyer.
09/02/2022
DEAN WINTER md Swire Hotels
Signing a partnership with The Set Collection is
obviously a marriage made in heaven – as soon as it
was announced on 19 January all relevant social
media went ballistic, says Winter. Linking his 4
House Collective properties, all in Greater China,
with the 4 Set hotels, 3 in western Europe plus one in
Israel, pairs like-with-like. All are 100% privately
owned, Winter’s by Swire and The Set’s by the Akirov
family. All are under-150-key boutiques with artistic
flair: coincidentally, Swire’s Shanghai Middle House
and The Set’s ###say where? Conservatorium are
both Piero Lissoni designs.
07/02/2022
Will we see more hotels, and brands, realise the value of getting closer to fashion? London Savoy, which has themed a Gucci Suite because Guccio Gucci was once a bellboy, picks up mention in current Gucci centenary hysteria, as do hotels hosting stars during filming of The House of Gucci – Lake Como Villa d’Este (Lady Gaga had the 4-room Villa Cima), Milan’s Armani and Palazzo Parigi, Rome’s Baglioni and Hotel de Russie, Rocco Forte: worth noting that Gucci ceo Marco Bizzarri sees endless possibilities of expanding collaborations.
02/02/2022
Paris sees Accor move into the cabaret space. On 3rd December Accor paid an undisclosed amount to Sodexho for the Lido, on Champs-Elysées, which means Sébastien Bazin’s empire now includes the Bluebell dancing girls (currently performing a Merveilles show devised by Franco Dragone, ex-Cirque du Soleil) - Baker Edward analyst Robin Cantrill-Fenwick says, bearing in mind Accor’s dynamic pricing knowledge, moving into entertainment seat sales is a logical brand extension
30/01/2022
The Marriott hosts announced The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection now sets sail May 2022. Ritz- Carlton will add Paradise Valley AZ, Naples FL, Grand Cayman, Moscow and Melbourne, plus a Reserve in Jiuzhaigou. Not to be outdone, St Regis adds Chicago, Riviera Maya, Belgrade and Qatar’s The Pearl. There will be W Hotels premiering in Toronto, Algarve, Dubai and Sydney; EDITION properties in Tampa FL, Riviera Maya, Madrid, Rome, Doha and Tokyo’s Ginza, and Luxury Collection adds Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain, Tbilisi and India.
28/01/2022
Stephen Alden, boss of Accor’s Orient- Express and Raffles brands, saw his importance soar with the 9th December announcement of the Orient Express La Dolce Vita train. This is being developed for Trenitalia by Arsenale SpA, whose investors include Nicola Bulgari and, as ceo, one of the companies of Italy’s best-known and most successful entrepreneurs, Paolo Barletta – see November 2021 Report. The train, with interiors by Dimorestudio’s Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci, will have 12 deluxe cabins, 18 suites and one Honour Suite: scheduled for 2024, trans-Europe itineraries will, in Rome, partner with Orient Express’ first hotel, the 125-room Orient-Express Minerva, another Barletta project, a conversion of a 17th century building near the Pantheon.
26/01/2022
Miami hosts its first Formula One 5-7 May – expect room demand and subsequent rates to beat Super Bowl and, easily, Art Basel. Already, the few rooms left at The Setai start at $3,000++, 5-night minimum
25/01/2022
He sprang to fame with Cirque du Soleil but he never stops – watch Nukutepipi become another name to remember. Nukutepipi? This is a triangular French Polynesia island, 2.7x2.7x2.7 km-sides, under 1,000 km from both Bora Bora and Tahiti. Why take note? Laliberté’s resort there finally takes its first commercial customers.
In 2007 Nukutepipi was an uninhabited bird sanctuary. He flew over it, bought it, and metaphorically sat on it for 5 years. Over the last decade he has built single-floor one- room villas, plus a pair of 2-room, private pool junior villas, and a presidential-type 4- roomer, to accommodate a total of 60 in all. Add to this a professional state-of-the-art recording studio that has been built with onsite input from Laliberté’s close friend Bono. And there are also, now, public areas, and accommodation and utilities for the 44 full-timeos staff
07/01/2022
Sylvain Ercoli, md Paris Bulgari, finally opened the 76-room hotel, on avenue Georges V, on 1st December – he had seen, and secured the site, and funding, in 2015 when he was still running London Bulgari (several of the investors are the same).
Paris Bulgari has brand signifiers, say Citterio-Viel interiors, Niko Romito food, though Ercoli stresses such French overtones as lighter colour palettes, and Lalique-style art.
With a 1,000sq m 2-bedroom Penthouse he also pushes modernity, fresh air and terraces, and having Paris Le Cheval Blanc as a peer allows Paris Bulgari to offer alternatives to the city’s aristocratic palaces.
23/12/2021
Dear friends, the Gostelow Report team and Mary Gostelow herself are wishing you a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year.
Let’s make 2022 unforgettable.
With love,
20/12/2021
5 Main Reasons to Invest in Kenya
It is the Largest Economy in East and Central Africa.
Economic performance is one of the key factors investors look at when choosing to invest. Kenya has one of the fastest-growing economies in East and Central Africa. Not only that, but the country has one of the most stable political systems in Africa that certainly helps with investments. Before COVID-19, the Kenyan GDP grew at an annual average of approximately 5.7% from 2015 to 2019. However, coronavirus slowed down this growth rate to approximately 1.9% in 2020.
According to the World Bank report on Kenya, the country has an annual GDP of $95.5 million, which is miles ahead of GDPs seen in the neighbouring states. What’s even better is that the World Bank predicts that this figure will significantly increase over the coming years.
Secondly, the growing economy of the country has also been met with increased incentives for investments directed to foreigners and foreign investments. As mentioned above, FDIs make a significant contribution to the growth and development of the Kenyan economy. China in Africa is a testament to this. As a result, you are going to be met with many incentives that will encourage you to invest here.
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20/12/2021
Vladislav Doronin now not only owns the Aman name, he heads a BRAND that gains following despite apparent lack of influencers and publicity (does Aman have anything so mundane as a ‘marketing department’?
Aman’s spread-the-word campaigns do include own-label wellness products and fashion.
It does have one private jet, and rumour had it at Dubai Air Show last month that Aman we busy hiring aviation professionals to run jet terminals at all Aman properties. Aman’s Anna Nash will only confirm preliminary exploration of this idea.
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17/12/2021
Paris’s signature Dior boutique, on Champs-Elysées, will, it is rumoured, turn its top floor into 6 letting suites for top clients (note, Dior menswear designer Kim Jones is designer of London Claridge’s 2021 in-lobby Christmas tree:
It is also worth commenting that some query Dior’s hesitation about whether or not to continue sponsoring Travis Scott after the singer did not stop the Houston concert, 15th November, that killed 10 – Nike, by contrast, quickly pulled its sponsorship)
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15/12/2021
“DUBAI GOVERNMENT WILL ISSUE ITS LAST PAPER TRANSACTION IN 2021, WE’VE INSTRUCTED DIGITAL DUBAI OFFICE TO OVERSEE THIS GOAL” - His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum during Digital Dubai’s Future Now Event.
With the Dubai Paperless Strategy fully implemented, no employee or customer of the Dubai government will need to print any paper documents or transactions, unless they personally prefer to do so. Printing can be done at service or typing centres.
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced, pointing at savings of 1.3 billion Dirham (USD 350 million) and 14-million-man hours.
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15/12/2021
We are happy to announce that our new December 2021 issue is out now.
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14/12/2021
Samy Ghachem is the Tunisian-born firebrand who spiced his own life when he relocated from travel to hospitality, to head Sereno Hotels.
He commutes regularly between their significantlyworthwhile properties on St Barth’s and by Lake Como – and, of course, he adds Cannes into his busy schedule. At Il Sereno Lago di Como, there’s a 20-metre freshwater infinity pool suspended over the lake, a Valmont spa and Cantiere Ernesto Riva customised yachts.
Designer Patricia Urquiola's newly launched 1950's-style Italy-inspired Signature Penthouse – one-bedroom 200sq m, all wall windows and private garden - pays homage to classic post-war Italian glamour, La Dolce Vita’ and modernist Italian designers (everything in the Penthouse is for sale, though we doubt if Samy Ghachem expects you to takeaway the walnut ceilings, Verde Alpi stone walls and /or Ceppo di Gre local stone floors).
Staff wear Como silk, fashioned in Urquiola style, with landscape motifs of Lake Como.
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09/12/2021
This is for all our designer friends, presented their vision on the colour of the year - 2022.
PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, a dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet red undertone blends the faithfulness and constancy of blue with the energy and excitement of red. A new Pantone color whose dynamic novel presence encourages personal inventiveness and creativity, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, the happiest and warmest of all the blue hues, introduces an empowering mix of newness.
We are living in transformative times. As we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing. Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit, inquisitive and intriguing PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we re-write our lives. Rekindling gratitude for some of the qualities that blue represents complemented by a new perspective that resonates today, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri places the future ahead in a new light.
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