Kyra Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), a groundbreaking venture by Airport Dimensions, SSP, and Travel Food Services (TFS), had opened this month.

With playful adventure, whimsy, and signature flair, the entire 45th floor of the Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong has been designed for families, heralding a new standard of luxury for guests looking to spend quality time with their children, inspire young imaginations, and create lasting memories.

Ennismore has confirmed the Mondrian Hong Kong is on track for opening in Q4 2023, timed as the city’s revival post-pandemic gains pace. According to the hotel’s website, reservations at the property can be made from 10 December 2023.

What’s it like staying in the highest rooms in the world, atop the 480-metre The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong? Well, actually the top floor of the 18-storey beauty is wellness and eatertainment, so choose a 17th floor Club room. Splurge on The Ritz-Carlton Suite, #1720, which comes with dining for 10, a square jacuzzi tub that could fit four in comfort. You have a private sauna, and window seats that allow unrivalled views of Tsim Sha Tsui around to Macau.

Paris has been rated as the world’s most powerful city destination, according to research undertaken by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). However, Beijing is likely to take the lead by 2032.

Since some flights from Sydney, in particular, arrive in Hong Kong the next day around breakfast time, or even before, thank goodness for The Peninsula’s company-wide welcome. Any time in, and any time out.

Hark back to the past in Hong Kong. Yes, it is coming back to life again. The Marco Polo German Bierfest may have been cancelled but Rugby Sevens is still scheduled for 4-6 November. And as restrictions are being removed there are many financial gatherings planned as frustrated global CEOs can now, after over two years, meet their Asia counterparts in person.

Cathay Pacific will launch the first commercial services of its new Airbus A321neo next month featuring a newly designed Regional Business Class seat product.

A collaboration between The Peninsula Hong Kong and Simpson Yacht Charter has delivered a new range of land and sea packages for hotel guests.

You glide rather than walk when arriving here, at this Kowloon icon, The Peninsula Hong Kong. The Rolls-Royce, in that dark Peninsula Green that aficionados know so well, purrs up to the front door. The reception party is never overbearing – say three people, immaculately attired in black and white and not a single hair out of place – welcomes you, escorts you through a lobby soaring to the top of its 20-metre-high columns. You are whisked past front desk, and you turn left to the elevators before you realise your Rimowa wheelie has been kidnapped.

Eleven years after first collaborating with The Upper House, Hong Kong, designer André Fu and his studio have unveiled the aptly named André Fu Suite on Level 48 of the House.

Asian boutique tour operator, Trails of Indochina, is bearing down on a new set of standards in immersive tailor-made travel in the region after marking its 20th anniversary. Having recently expanded from Southeast Asia into East Asian nations such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, the company is staying true to its founder John Tue Nguyen’s questing approach to tourism.