Author: Arnie Weissmann 

In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first humans to descend into Challenger Deep, the lowest point in any of the planet’s oceans. Monday, on the 63rd anniversary of that…

My spell-checker recognizes “Disneyfied” as a word. Its usage is typically pejorative, used to describe a place where human intervention has pushed a destination into the sphere of artifice. Interestingly, Disney World…

My first stay on Anguilla’s Meads Bay was more than 20 years ago, and I was a little apprehensive about returning. In memory, it was the best shoreline I’d come across in…

There is only one place where the Four Seasons’ well-regarded training program clashed so badly with the local culture that the hospitality management company pulled up stakes and left: the Four Seasons…

Sometimes I think Switzerland simply has too many options for a relatively small country. That’s not necessarily a bad problem, but it took me 10 visits before I found myself in what…

The most colorful description of a company’s experience during Covid was conveyed to me by Joss Kent, CEO of AndBeyond, whose safari lodge business’ strategy is driven exclusively by its sustainability-related impact…

Until the year 2000, Steve Cohen felt he was doing pretty well as a chamber magician, lining up private gigs in wealthy people’s homes in Chappaqua, N.Y., pulling in about $2,000 per…

A study on problem-solving called “the marshmallow challenge” pitted teams of four educated adults against four young children to build the highest tower they could using 20 sticks of spaghetti, a yard…

Fischer and Sparkle. One is the daughter of the keynoter at the inaugural International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM), launched in Cannes exactly two decades ago. The other gave herself the same nickname…

There are signs to suggest that Schloss Elmau, in the Bavarian Alps, will align with your assumptions about luxury hotels. It belongs to Leading Hotels of the World. It’s isolated in a…