LATTE Luxury News

3 days ago | latteluxurynews.com | Anne Majumdar

Complex Travel Group is charging full speed ahead with ambitious expansion plans, as it works towards a TTV target of $250 million. New developments for the Perth-based company include a new office opening in Victoria, major team growth, the acquisition of reward travel specialist The Well Connected Traveller and the launch of Flatbeds Rewards Travel. The moves are part of a broader strategy to cement the group as a dominant force in the premium airfare and rewards travel space in Australia.

3 days ago | latteluxurynews.com | Anne Majumdar

The Virtuoso UHNW initiative goes far beyond travel, establishing “a whole ecosystem for the clients of the advisors,” Hagopian explained. “It’ll be very specific for that vertical only. It will be separate from everything else we do within the network.”While the luxury travel component remains central, the new division takes Virtuoso into new territory, in the form of elite lifestyle offerings. “Luxury lifestyle, it’s really the other side of travel,” he said.

1 week ago | latteluxurynews.com | Guy Dundas

EXCLUSIVE: Australia-based luxury hotel, resort and DMC representation firm, La Collection, has signed its first cruise partner with the newly-established expedition brand, Pearl Expeditions. The partnership brings La Collection’s Managing Director, Craig Farrell, and Pearl Expeditions’ Sarina Bratton AM together again. Farrell and Bratton have seven years experience working alongside each when they were both with PONANT, up until three years ago.

1 week ago | latteluxurynews.com | Guy Dundas

PONANT/Paul Gauguin Cruises welcomed a group of travel partners from around the country to Darwin earlier this week to a very rare ship visit of ms Paul Gauguin. The 330-passenger luxury ship was passing through the Northern Territory capital having just undergone its latest refurbishment in Singapore which was centred on sustainable engine enhancements to meet Ponant’s stringent green credentials.

1 week ago | latteluxurynews.com | Guy Dundas

AmaWaterways’ highly-anticipated, luxury river cruising world-first operation in Colombia, South America, was launched last weekend. The first of two purpose-built riverboats, the 60-guest AmaMagdalena commenced service on the Magdalena River. The core programs are seven-night voyages between Barranquilla to Cartagena (and vice versa), encompassing ports and destinations such as Santa Barbara de Pinto, Mompox, El Banco, Magangue and Calamar.