Aman Maldives will feature a 52 key resort and 16 branded residences, located on a private island in the Vaavu atoll. The resort will be the 21st destination for Aman and the latest addition to its 35-strong collection.

Europe-born luxury community of travel designers, Serandipians, has returned to its original branding of Traveller Made, concurrently launching a new community known as Takumians.

Global Travel Collection (GTC), a community of travel advisors for luxury leisure, VIP corporate and entertainment travel within the Internova Travel Group, is expanding its relationship with Nicer, the travel technology company that blends traditional travel advisors with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to plan and book more perfect trips.

Lindblad Expeditions has opened bookings for a series of new chartered Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic voyages along the Upper Amazon River and Peru on Delfin III, an elegant new 42-guest, all-suite ship.

Goldman Group has announced a powerful line-up for it’s conference to be held in Melbourne this November. Last month, Goldman Group announced two keynote speakers would be attending this year’s conference – Jo Bailes, CEO of Singita and David Kolner, Executive Vice President of Virtuoso. Joining those executives will be panellists from overseas and Australia who will grace the stage at Crown Melbourne to address over 170 attendees including teams from Goldman Travel, Travelcall, The Cruise Centre by Travelcall and SmartFlyer Australia.

The Travel Corporation (TTC) has announced the appointment of Melissa DaSilva as Interim CEO of TTC Tour Brands, effective immediately. DaSilva, who most recently served as President of TTC Tour Brands North America and brings over three decades of travel industry expertise to her new role, succeeds Gavin Tollman who will exit the business when the company sale closes later this year.

Explora Journeys is eager for the trade to hone in on the ‘bleisure’ market, believing it’s an untapped holiday segment ripe for its ultra-luxury cruising product. Chris Austin, President of North America for Explora Journeys told trade partners aboard the brand-new EXPLORA II that new audiences would be key for growth, and he believes the bleisure sector has strong potential.

Luxperience has announced a strong cast of leaders for its Thought Leaders Forum, taking place on 19 November 2024. Headlined by Australian tourism expert, Adele Labine-Romain (pictured above) and moderated by Co-Founder of Australian Traveller, Quentin Long, the curated Thought Leaders program has been designed to delve into the way luxury travel is perceived by the industry itself and the new luxury traveller.

Explora Journeys has reiterated its commitment to the travel industry, with the ultra-luxury cruise line’s Chief Commercial Officer addressing back office improvements are necessary to keep up with the brand’s rapid growth.

1000 Mile Travel Group’s Co-Founders and CEOs, Nicola Veltman and Ben Ross, say the introduction of its online travel booking platform, 1000Access, is broadening the company’s horizons, part of a long-term vision to give back to the industry.

Space Perspective, the world’s first carbon-neutral spaceflight experience company, has successfully completed a full flight profile of its uncrewed Spaceship Neptune- Excelsior, the fully-operational test vehicle of the spaceship that will take Explorers to space.

Michelin has revealed its first MICHELIN Key selection dedicated to North American hotels. In all, 412 properties in the United States, Mexico and Canada were recognised.