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Travelers are on a hunt to “collect countries.” Where the affluent will be venturing for the remainder of 2014

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The most popular emerging destinations for the world’s most affluent travelers. The buying habits and motivations of upscale travelers. New Zealand, Chile, Indonesia, Hungary, Hong Kong and Croatia are on the wealthy traveler’s radar this year more than in 2013, according to a newly released report by luxury travel network Virtuoso. Perennial favorites France, Italy, and … Read more

The most expensive cupcake for a 40th birthday celebration

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$900 cupcake for a 40th birthday celebration. The way to a wife’s heart is through extravagant sweets. To celebrate his wife’s 40th birthday, a man in Toronto ordered an over-the-top dessert – the most extravagant cupcake possible. The $900 concoction was made with some of the most expensive ingredients in the world and the woman’s … Read more

Sales of shark fin in China drop by up to 70%

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Traditionally a symbol of wealth and luxury, public attitidues towards shark fin are changing in China, according to a new report

Are we today throwing away the resources of tomorrow? Green Week 2014

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The 2014 edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, took place from 3 to 5 June at The Egg Conference Centre, Rue Bara, in Brussels. The 2013 edition of the high-profile event for all stakeholders in preserving the environment attracted some 2,100 participants from government, business and industry, NGOs, academia … Read more

London’s restaurants: a grotesque display of opulence

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In the naked fetishisation of wealth that dominates the capital’s most fashionable eating places there are no critics

The purchasing behavior of high net-worth consumers. Report

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Affluent consumers are more likely to purchase a lifestyle property now than they were five years ago. “If the top wishes of wealthy Americans could be expressed in a single dream home, it would be a “lifestyle property” on the waterfront with a multicar collector’s garage, which they designed themselves,” says the just-released Sotheby’s International … Read more