Luxury’s Tightened Purse: Deloitte Data Reveals a ‘Cautious Class’ Leading the 18% Decline in Holiday Travel Budgets

The Affluent Paradox: Luxury Travel‘s New Landscape of Frugality and Focus The latest Deloitte 2025 Holiday Travel Survey presents a fascinating, almost paradoxical, snapshot of the premium travel market: a consumer base that is more intent on traveling than in recent years, yet is simultaneously demonstrating acute financial caution, particularly among the highest-spending segment. For … Read more

10 most promising startups that focus on luxury

Luxury is synonymous with beauty, excellence and prestige, a requirement that complicates the entry of young start-ups determined to break the glass ceiling. “Luxury is a special sector,” says Thomas Mesmin, one of the founding members of French Luxe, a network inspired by French Tech that was born in early July of last year. The … Read more

The global market of new boats. Italy is the second largest boat producer in the world. Study.

The market of sailing boats is worth 2.1 billion euro, 74% of the value is represented by the boats in between 12 and 30 m. The global market of new boats has a value of 19 billion Euro, according to estimates made by Deloitte and Altagamma for the year 2015, with about 800 thousands boats sold … Read more

Holiday sales in America to increase 3.5 to 4 percent in stores and 15 to 17 percent in non-store sales

Deloitte forecasts 3.5 to 4 percent increase in holiday sales. Deloitte’s retail & distribution practice expects total holiday sales to climb to between $920 and $925 billion, representing a 3.5 to 4 percent increase in November through January holiday sales (excluding motor vehicles and gasoline) over last season. This growth rate is below last year’s … Read more

Highest earning football clubs

Football’s richest clubs: Analysis of clubs’ relative financial performance The 15th edition of the Deloitte Football Money League made a profile of the highest earning clubs in the world’s most popular sport. The top 20 Money League clubs generated combined revenues of €4.4 billion in2010/11, over a quarter of the European football market. Continued growth in … Read more