A series of innovations, refinements and enhancements now offered by Seabourn have been wowing guests since the ultra-luxury cruise line restarted operations in Greece in early July this year.

In 2019 when Virtuoso introduced the new Ultraluxe community, it was inbound travel specialist Southern Crossings that was invited to be the first on-site representative for the community in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

This week LATTE chats exclusively with Rodrigo Esponda, Managing Director of Los Cabos Tourism Board.Rodrigo has been Los Cabos Tourism Board for the past five years, steering the organisation through its most rapid period of international visitor growth and rapid expansion as an ultraluxury destination (where there are now 11 Virtuoso Preferred properties), to the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic.He is now at the forefront of Los Cabos’ tourism rebound, with international visitor numbers for July 2021 surging nearly 25% on the corresponding period in 2020. And that’s more than 12 months after the tourism gateway threw out the welcome mat to overseas visitors with a phased reopening beginning in June last year.In response to COVID-19, Los Cabos was designated as the world’s first Sharecare health security VERIFIED destination earlier this year. So how is business, and what does that actually mean?

Virtuoso recently revealed a list of 50+ partners within its Ultraluxe Travel community. Two Australian companies made the elite invitation-only portfolio, including South Australia-based The Tailor – Australia.So what does it take to be quantified as “ultraluxe”? LATTE chatted with Drew Kluska, the Founder and Managing Director of The Tailor to find out.

In LATTE’s first Q&A column of 2021, we chat exclusively with Jesse Kornoff, General Manager of Mount Lofty House situated in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. Jesse has been onsite at the property since the developments of the new and highly-anticipated addition, Sequoia Lodge, slated to open in April 2021.

MSC Cruises says it is on track to resume operation in Japan from April 2021 having received a health and safety certification from the country’s official maritime classification society.

The Fullerton Hotel Sydney, celebrated its first year anniversary last month with the introduction of new promotions, programs and partnerships. Since its debut in October 2019, The Fullerton Hotel Sydney has become synonymous with warm hospitality and one-of-a-kind flair.

This week LATTE chatted with Judy Vanrenen (OAM), who founded Botanica World Discoveries 20 years ago in partnership with Geoff McGeary, the owner of APT.

This week LATTE communicated from afar with Steve Sammut, President and CEO of Rocky Mountaineer.

This week LATTE spoke exclusively with Etihad Airways’ General Manager for Australia and New Zealand, Sarah Built, to get an understanding of how the UAE’s national airline is responding to the coronavirus pandemic and the actions being taken for the post-COVID-19 recovery.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact for tourism and hotel operators in New Zealand over the past 5 weeks or so since the government locked down borders to visitors. This week, LATTE chatted with Kiwi tourism figurehead and CEO/General Manager of The Rees Hotel Queenstown, Mark Rose, to get an update on how his luxury property is coping through the COVID-19 travel crisis, and what his thoughts are on the proposed “travel bubble” between Australia and New Zealand, and how long he believes it will take for the market to recover.