How IHCL Is Using Sound to Redefine the Luxury Hotel Experience

A generation of small, independent, design-led properties, promoted by passionate independent hoteliers, is reshaping Indian hospitality. Now the homegrown and global hospitality groups want in. SOH asks what happens to intimacy and individuality once boutique becomes big business.

The New Era of Boutique Hotels

The numbers behind a market that is drinking more, and better.

India’s Alcohol Market Is On Track To Double By The 2030s

Cristiano Rinaldi, who has opened more than 40 luxury hotels, now steers Marriott's newly unified lodging function for Asia Pacific - excluding China. In an exclusive interview, he makes the case for restraint, localisation, and design that holds its value for owners, guests, and the brand alike.

Cristiano Rinaldi: The Brand Custodian

High above the Mekong, Rosewood Phnom Penh turns a skyscraper into a showcase for Cambodian creativity, and makes the case for the capital as Southeast Asia's next luxury address.

Vertical Luxury in the Cambodian Capital

The sal forests of Kanha Tiger Reserve, believed to have sparked Rudyard Kipling's imagination, remain a sanctuary for tigers, wild dogs, and the hard-ground swamp deer, which the park famously saved from extinction.

An Immersive, Nature-Forward Guide to Kanha

Celebrated chef Vikas Khanna, who won a Michelin for Junoon, NYC, talks about the cities that shaped his life, the challenges of reinventing tradition, and why being content always mattered more than ambition.

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