Kuoni Reveals its Travel Trends Report 2012 The top five destinations for 2012 The Maldives has once again topped Kuoni’s annual poll of where UK customers want to spend their holidays. In the company’s top ten selling destinations for 2012, the Indian Ocean archipelago has held on to the top slot since 2005. Where holidaymakers … Read more
Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends for 2012 For the sixth year in a row, The American College of Sports Medicine, the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, published the Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends reporting global trends for 2012. The survey was completed by 2,620 health and fitness professionals worldwide and … Read more
Wealthy Consumers From Seven Nations Define What Constitutes Luxury and How They Shop and Rank Brands; Superior Quality, Craftsmanship and Customer Service Remain Essential but Many Firms Fall Short New York City-based Luxury Institute released “Luxury Branding and Marketing: A Global Comparison of Wealthy Consumers in Top Markets,” a survey of wealthy consumers in the … Read more
What Wealthy Women Really Want Both the amount of wealth controlled by women and the rate at which it is increasing are surprising — 95% of women will be their family’s primary financial decision maker at some point in their lives, says the Family Wealth Advisors Council, a network of independent wealth advisers in their … Read more
Luxury Brands Status Index for Japanese and Chinese shoppers European luxury brands are warmly received by wealthy shoppers throughout Asia. These are the findings of the new Luxury Institute‘s Luxury Brands Status Index surveys. The report offers the rankings of dozens of luxury brands by high net-worth consumers from Japan and China. Respondents were 21 … Read more
Across Europe, two in five people (40%) now shop online – and it is men not women that are driving the charge into internet purchases – according to a new study by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). At a time when there is an unprecedented level of consumer access to the internet across Europe, CBRE’s study … Read more