What cost-of-living crisis? Luxury travel is booming – and set to grow further
- Written by Anita Manfreda, Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Torrens University Australia

About ten years ago, while working at Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in the Swiss town of St Moritz, I was shocked to learn a guest once requested an elephant be brought in to deliver a birthday gift to his wife. And the hotel made it happen, squeezing the elephant into the lobby.
This over-the-top gesture symbolised what...