How a Scottish microchain is reimagining some of the country s finest small hotels
The more remote parts of Scotland are in high demand this year – and a new venture will offer three luxurious bases from which to explore
Scottish hotelier Gordon Campbell Gray is launching his first solo venture in Argyll
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The time is right to lower the tone a little. While much of central London is reopening after Lockdown 3.0, and the ghosts of city workers haunt countless doomed branches of Pret A Manger, all I’ve wanted recently is a nice plate of fish and chips. Away. A simple thing done well for a reasonable price that delivers all the dopamine.
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Colin Nagy, a marketing strategist, writes this opinion column for Skift on hospitality and business travel. On Experience dissects customer-centric experiences and innovation across the luxury sector, hotels, aviation, and beyond. He also covers the convergence of conservation and hospitality. You can read all of his writing here.
If you think back to the original wave of boutique hotels, they were pretty revolutionary. Instead of the cookie-cutter lodging that an American traveler was used to, a wave of entrepreneurs created beautiful jewel boxes with personality and sensibility.
It might just be a quirk of historical symmetry combined with a dash of wishful thinking but there is a school of thought which says the 2020s are going to roar as loudly as the 1920s did. The comparisons between then and now are certainly appealing: a century ago the world emerged from an economic downturn and a pandemic to an era of modernisation and progress shaped by technology and a sense of optimism. It gave us Futurism, fridges, television and the Jazz Age. If the forecasters are right, it may be about to happen all over again and if it does the Bright Young Things of the New Roaring Twenties are going to need nightclubs to party in just as much as their sharply-dressed forebears did. How appropriate, then, that the first exhibition to be held at the V&A Dundee when it re-opens on May 1 is a survey of nightclubs and nightclub design which, though it makes a gesture to nostalgia, also peers into the future. And how ironic that the first cultural sector to emerge from lockd