Luxury Tourism

摘要: Like hardly any other activity, travelling is suited to depict the zeitgeist of an epoch. This was true in the nineteenth century as well as today: a mixture of curiosity, the desire for adventure, necessity, prestige and status is motivating an audience of billions to move on and around the globe in various ways. But the last two decades in particular have confused many parameters of the previously very stable travel patterns: rapid digitalization, widespread availability of low-cost travel, overtourism in sensitive destinations, the cry for ecological sustainability, political turmoil, etc. All this and much more have heralded a paradigm shift, especially in the most sensitive but also the most opinion-leading segment: luxury tourism. Reason enough, then, to take up this phenomenon. The topic of luxury travel has been occupying a large part of tourism stakeholders for some time, but so far the clarification of concepts such as …