Press Room

Elite Traveler in the News:

• The Hollywood Reporter: Luxury travel quarterly - Optimal spots for airport delays
• Media Post: "Marketing Daily Commentary - Luxury Looks to Packaged Goods"
• Huffington Post: "This Week in Magazines"
• WSJ.com Wealth Report: "The PR Problem of the Rich"
• Concierge.com: "Clear as Mud - Business Travel Is Totally Cool, Except for When It Isn't"
• New Credit Rules: "Elite Publisher Mocks Poor Amex Customers"
• Musings of a Working Diva: "Champagne Wishes and Peanut Butter Dreams"
• Esquire's Spring 2009 Big Black Book: Private Jetiquette
• New Republic: "Poor Little Jet Owners"
• USA Today: "Luxurious Lifestyles Take a Hit"
• Astera.com (Russia): "Crisis Makes the Rich Modest"
• Forbes.com: "Can You Afford It? The World's Ultimate Wish List"
• Financial News: "The World's Ultimate Wish List - At Least You Can Dream"
• Xorte: "Consumer Spending Survey - Families Worth More than $30 Million Plan to Spend Same or More as 2007 "
• Reuters: "Check-Out Line: Teens Spending Less, but Super Rich Still Spending"
• Yahoo News: "Private Jet Lifestyle Website, Elitetraveler.com, Turns Spotlight on Leaders in Luxury"
• SmartLuxury.com: "Private Jet Lifestyle Website, Elitetraveler.com, Turns Spotlight on Leaders in Luxury"
• Lifestyle Experiences: "Private Jet Lifestyle Website, Elitetraveler.com, Turns Spotlight on Leaders in Luxury"
• LiveLifeLuxury.com: "Private Jet Lifestyle Website, Elitetraveler.com, Turns Spotlight on Leaders in Luxury"
• Myleaders.com: "Private Jet Lifestyle Website, Elitetraveler.com, Turns Spotlight on Leaders in Luxury"
• International Business Times: "Super Rich to Continue Spending at Undiminished Rates"
• Travel Pulse: "Super Rich to Continue Spending at Undiminished Rates"
• SILive.com: "Super Rich to Continue Spending at Undiminished Rates"
• Yahoo Finance Canada: "Super Rich to Continue Spending at Undiminished Rates"
• The Earth Times: "Elite Traveler Consumer Spending Survey Reveals Families Worth More than $30 Million Plan to Spend Same or More as 2007"
• Eye of Dubai: "Roya International Suites Voted Best Suites in the World"
• India Car Net: "A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Announces Partnership with Elite Traveler"
• Paddock Talk: "A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Announces Partnership with Elite Traveler"
• Auto Channel: "A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Announces Partnership with Elite Traveler"
• Motorsport.com: "A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Announces Partnership with Elite Traveler"
• Bahrain Tribune: "Bahrain's Gulf Finance House Sells Banyan Tree"
• iNewswire.com: "Raffles Hotels and Resorts Once Again Recognized for Offering Some of the Most Luxurious Suites in the World"
• Peninsula News (Quatar): Hotel Happenings: "Royal Villa Voted Among Best in the World"
• Middle East-Africa Financial Network: "Qatar - Royal Villa Voted Among Best in the World"
• E-Travel Blackboard: "Preferred Hotel Group T Announces Partnership with Lebua Hotels and Resorts"
• PR Inside: "Raffles Suites Honored Among World's Best by Elite Traveler Magazine"
• South China Morning Post (Hong Kong): "Ea$tern Promi$e"
• Gulf Daily News (Bahrain): "Ritz-Carlton Villas Among World's Best"
• Travel Blackboard: "Rotorua's Lake Okareka Lebua Lodge Makes List of World's Top Hotel and Resort Suites"
• About.com: "Elite Names World's Top 101 Luxury Suites"
• Bahama Journal: "Reef Suite on Elite List"
• East Valley Tribune: "Elite Traveler Gives Nod to Rooms at Four Seasons, Royal Palms"
• Galway First: "Magazine for the Rich Names G Hotel Suite One of the World's Best"
• Orange County Register: "Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel Suite (in Dana Point) Among World's Finest"
• Pacific Business News: "Maui, Big Isle Hotels Make Top Suites List"
• Market Watch: "Elite Traveler Announces Top 101 Hotel/Resort Suites of the Year"
• Indian Wine Academy: "For the Super Rich - World's Top 101 Hotel Suites"
• National Jeweler: "High-End Designers Hit Jackpot at Couture"
• New York Times: "Hey Big Spender, Flying My Way?"
• WWD: "The Pressure is On: Retail Anxiety Builds as Economy Weakens"
• Advertising Age: "In an Era of Downsizing, Big Books Stand Out"
• Newsweek: "Fashionable Exuberance - Despite the economy, Gucci opens the world's largest luxury store"
• WWD: "Economy's Spin Is New Twist for the Rich"
• JCK Online: "The Rich keep spending, the Mass Affluent plan to cut back on spending"
• National Jeweler: "Despite Economy, Super Rich Still Spending"
• Street Insider: "Despite Slowing Economy, Super Rich Continue to Spend"
• Yahoo News: "Despite Slowing Economy, Super Rich Continue to Spend"
• France Guide Prestige: "Interview with Doug Gollan"
• Private Jet Lifestyle Blog: "Interview with Doug Gollan"
• Wall Street Journal: "When Recession Reaches the Rich"

Archived articles from July - December 2007
Archived articles from April - June 2007
Archived articles from Jan - Mar 2007
Archived articles from 2006
Archived articles from 2003 - 2005

The Private Jet Lifestyle Market in the News:

• WSJ.com Wealth Report: "Real Luxury is Back"
• New York Times: "The Mile-High Office"
• Bloomberg: "Ultra-Rich Clutch $191,000 Bags for Comfort as Wealth Shrinks "
• Caribbean News: "Business Jets Winging their Way Out of the Financial Crisis"
• Aero News: "Second Annual Latin America VLJ Conference Coming To Miami As Private Jet Travel Forecast For Strong Growth"
• AZCentral.com: "Honeywell Sees Strong Demand for Private Jets"
• Travel Counsellors: "New Airline Jet Republic Banks on the Super-Rich"
• Pittburgh Tribune-Review: "Private Flights Continue their Appeal "
• Times Online (UK): "The Excesses of the Filthy Rich"
• Media Post Publications: "The Rich Are Different: They Buy More and Better Stuff"
• Baltimore Sun: "Yacht Builders Sail On Despite Economy"
• Mail Online: "Credit Crunch? Not If You're a Super Rich Selfridges Shopper"
• Business Week: "The Real Action Is in Private Jets"
• Marketwatch: "Fractional Ownership Gains Traction in Lean Times "
• Daily Telegraph: "Credit Crunch: Why the Super Rich are Different"
• New York Times: "Private Jets Are Flying Higher"
• Newsweek: "Shining In the Gloom"
• New York Times: "Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending"
• International Herald Tribune: "As US Verges on Recession, Demand for Private Jets Grows"
• Star Tribune (Minn.): "Private jets rattling folks in Santa Monica"
• Financial Times: "Wealthy's desire for luxury goods rises unabated"
• Telegraph: "Miserable? Bored? You must be rich"
• New York Times: "For the Yachting Class, the Latest Amenity Can Take Flight"
• New York Post: "Signs of Trouble in the Lap of Luxury"
• New York Times: "The Rest of the World Discovers the Business Jet"
• Newsweek: "Fly Right on Private Large Jets"
• New York Times: "Mansions in the Sky"
• The Wealth Report: "'Family Office' Chiefs Get Plied with Perks"
• Dublin Post: "Doonbeg Suite Makes Elite List"
• CNNMoney.com: "Super Yachts for the Ultra Rich"
• NYTimes.com: "In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich"
• Bloomberg.com: "Private Jets Push Limit on Luxury Thanks to FAA"
• Telegraph.co.uk: "Boo-Hoo, My Yacht's Too Big"
• Time: "A Dogfight Over Private Jets"
• Wall Street Journal: "For CEO Spouses, Corporate Jets are the Perfect Perk"
• New York Post: "No Planes, No Problem"
• CNBC.com - Rich & Richer: "The Wealth Explosion"
• MSN.com: "The Super Rich Are Doing You a Favor"
• Business Day: "Street Dogs: How the Super Rich Spend their Money"

Archived articles from 2006
Archived articles from 2003 - 2005

Mass Affluent Cutting Back in the News:

• ABCNews.com: "Personal Bankruptcy Files Soar"
• International Herald Tribune: "Learning to Reach Lower for Happiness"
• Wall Street Journal: "AmEx Posts Weak Results And Shelves Its Targets"
• Wall Street Journal: "US Consumers Trade Down as Economic Angst Grows"
• Financial Times: "Rising Defaults Hit Countrywide"

The Sky's The Limit in the News:

• LifeStyle Marketing of Luxury: How to market luxury products and services to high net worth, affluent consumers
• Wealth Bulletin: Private Banks Compete to Pay their Clients' Bills
• Wealth Bulletin: Concierge Services Blossom for the Very Rich
• Wealth Bulletin: For ultra high-net-worths only: The million dollar concubine
• Wealth Bulletin: Private is everything when it comes to ultra-HNW travel
• Wealth Bulletin: Wealth advisors with links to the Knights Templar

Elite Traveler Press Releases:

• SUPER RICH TO CONTINUE SPENDING AT UNDIMINISHED RATES - Elite Traveler Consumer Spending Survey Reveals Families Worth More than $30 Million Plan to Spend Same or More as 2007
  
• Elite Traveler Announces 101 Top Hotel / Resort Suites of the Year
  
• DESPITE SLOWING ECONOMY "SUPER RICH" CONTINUE TO SPEND - Elite Traveler Consumer Spending Survey Reveals 80 Percent of High Net Worth Individuals to Increase Spending in 2008
  
• FOR THE SUPER RICH, VISIONS OF COUTURE DRESSES AND JEWEL-ENCRUSTED SADDLES DANCE IN THEIR HEADS - Annual Holiday Spending Survey Reveals "Super Rich" Will Increase Gift Giving by up to 67% over Last Year
  
• Elite Traveler Receives FOLIO Silver Ozzie Award for Fashion Feature
  
• ELITE TRAVELER / PRINCE & ASSOCIATES PULSE POLL: VOLATILE MARKET HITS THE RICH, SUPER RICH STAY UNAFFECTED
  
• Elite Traveler Takes Off on Apple iPhone
  

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