Flight Centre Travel Group’s luxury retail brand, Scott Dunn, has offered insight into the motivations, interests and trending destinations for luxury travellers. While Scott Dunn doesn’t have a presence in the local region (its offices are in the UK, US and Singapore), many of the trends of their HNW audience are likely to strike a chord with those of Aussies and Kiwis, or at least be of interest.

Flight Centre Travel Group’s Luxury Travel Collection (LTC) has unveiled its Member Portfolio, revealing today the foundation luxury member brands that officially joined on 1 December 2023.

The team at Ashmore, Harris & James Travel Associates celebrated its 25th anniversary over the weekend with a birthday party at Pietro Gallus Estate in Warrandyte, just outside Melbourne. The event also marked a quarter century for the luxury travel agency brand.

Luxperience will bolster its footprint in the Australian luxury event space in 2024, with further short-term visions to take the show to international markets. Next year’s Luxperience will return to Sydney on 19 November, and its portable format will enable it to launch in markets such as the UK and USA, LATTE can reveal.

Australia’s missing link in the dedicated luxury event space made a triumphant return in Sydney today with doors opening for Luxperience 2023. This week’s event at the International Convention Centre Sydney is the first in-person gathering for Luxperience in three years, now also under new ownership.

Luxperience 2023 will welcome more than 75 of the world’s best travel suppliers and 120+ elite travel professionals for three packed days of business meetings and social gatherings designed to drive luxury travel sales when the rebooted event kicks off in Sydney tomorrow.

Flight Centre Travel Group-owned luxury tour operator Scott Dunn has launched exclusive new destinations, hotels and experiential offerings throughout France, launching for 2024 travel.

Flight Centre Travel Group is reviving its cruise brand, Cruiseabout, with new standalone offices and a dedicated wholesale cruise division. Cruiseabout was consolidated into the core Flight Centre and Travel Associates brands in February 2018.

Flight Centre Travel Group-owned, independently operated B2B luxury travel show, Luxperience, has opened expressions of interest (EOI) to exhibitors and buyers for this year’s event and debuted a brand new website.

Luxury global tour operator Scott Dunn, a member of Flight Centre Travel Group’s Luxury Travel Collection, is expanding its presence in the US this summer with the opening of a New York office in August 2023. Building on a year of record sales in the US, Scott Dunn will shortly offer a bi-coastal operation in the US, having established its presence in San Diego, California since 2016.

Flight Centre Travel Group’s top-end stable is set for further acquisitions and partnerships within and beyond the travelsphere