Capture ROI from the shift toward wellness-focused ultra-luxury travel.Ultra-Luxury Travel is a strategic blueprint for executives, investors and senior decision-makers who want to align with a new era of high-value hospitality. Author Benjamin Bryant draws on decades of experience filming over 65 islands worldwide and through partnerships with brands such as Cheval Blanc, The Ritz-Carlton and Visit Maldives to reveal how ...

We may think of ancient cultures as rudimentary – but in reality, the humans living hundreds and even thousands of years ago were remarkably savvy, establishing the foundations of the same science that we use today. From early Mesopotamia to the Stone Age, through Ancient Greece and Rome, the pirates of medieval England and the seafaring Vikings of Scandinavia, the time of the Samurai, Chinese dynasties, and cowboy cultures from the American West to South American ranches and the Mongolian...

Offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between populism and political meritocracy, this book asks why states with meritocratic systems such as Singapore and China have not faced the populist challenge to the extent that liberal-democratic states have. Is political meritocracy immune to populism? Or does it fan its flames?Exploring this puzzle, the authors argue that political meritocracies are simultaneously immune and susceptible to populism. The book maintains t...