By Erin Shea: A Luxury Institute executive at Luxury Daily's Luxury FirstLook: Strategy 2013 conference said that affluent millennials will be moving into the prime of their luxury consumption years as baby boomers are moving out.

By Nancy Trejos: How loyal are travellers to airlines or hotels? Not much, a new survey by Deloitte says.

Of the 387 hotels and 188 hotel apartments registered by the Dubai Government Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing at the end of 2011, 48% were within 2km of one of five shopping malls, proving just how well developed the relationship between retail and hospitality has become.

By Claudette Covey: Starwood's legacy in the region dates back to 1973, and the company currently operates 34 hotels with 24 hotels in the pipeline. It aims to have 100 hotels under operation, development and management contracts signed by 2015 with eight out of nine Starwood brands flying their flag in India.

By Masha Vapnitchnaia: At most hotels you check in for a night's sleep. At these rarefied stays, you'll want to stay up all night…

By Lee Hayhurst: A new real-time hotel feedback service aimed at keeping bad reviews off TripAdvisor is due to go on trial in London.

By Laura Bly: Wikivoyage, in test mode for several months but making its official debut today, will compete in a crowded arena that includes guidebook publishers such as Fodors, Frommers and Lonely Planet, user-generated reviews and forums such as TripAdvisor, and Wikitravel, a 10-year-old commercial site inspired by Wikipedia that's battling the newcomer in court.

By Erin Shea: Marketers should realize that luxury is not going away and luxury goods will always be present. The luxury market has surged back after the last downturn of the economy. However, luxury marketers need to make sure they understand their consumers and their future consumers.

By William Bellis: In layman’s terms, responsive design generally means that a website (one URL/website address) responds to the device or screen on which it’s being viewed.  The site morphs to better accommodate the resolution and size of the screen — from site layout, to size of imagery, even to the amount of copy in some instances.  So whichever of the four screens — PC/laptop, tablet, smartphone or Internet TV — a travel shopper is using, the site will look custom built for that screen.

It seems with every passing year, a new and innovative spa trend is revealed, from bathing in beer to salt-iodine caves mimicking the effect of the Black Sea. And the spa treatments tipped for 2013 look set to be just as inventive, from 'mindfulness massages' to vitamin C-infused showers.