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My strategic analyses and my vision of tomorrow's hospitality: positioning, management, leadership and the sector's major trends.
"Behind the scenes of ultra-luxury hospitality: the human touch at the heart of exception".
At the Forum Hotel&Spa, my perspective on ultra-luxury hospitality through the Joali Maldives: true luxury lies in human, engaged teams.
April 20, 2026 · 8 min
Luxury hotels: major trends revealed at MIPIM 2026
At MIPIM 2026, investors and hotel industry leaders analyze the sector's major transformations: luxury, new destinations and the evolution of the customer experience. Strategic analysis by Laurent Delporte for DELPORTE HOSPITALITY MAG.
March 19, 2026 · 9 min
True luxury is the freedom to choose
Discover how to reinvent contemporary luxury by placing experience, freedom and personalization at the heart of hospitality. DELPORTE HOSPITALITY can help you transform your offer to create a unique, generous and innovative welcome.
January 14, 2026 · 6 min
How can hotel real estate assets be leveraged to create sustainable value?
Laurent Delporte analyzes how to leverage hotel real estate assets through a customer experience and operational excellence approach.
December 11, 2025 · 4 min
VitalScore: The Digital Wellbeing App That Enhances Guest Experience and Hotel Performance
VitalScore, the wellbeing app by WellWays, helps luxury hotels anticipate guest needs, motivate their teams and boost overall business performance.
November 6, 2025 · 7 min
AI and the hotel industry: progress or dehumanization of service?
Find out how artificial intelligence is transforming the hotel industry: increasing efficiency, personalizing service... but at the risk of dehumanization? Analysis of the stakes between technological progress and the customer experience.
October 8, 2025 · 5 min
Luxury and sustainable development: more responsible hospitality
Sustainable luxury is a major challenge: reconciling high standards and excellence with ecological responsibility. Analysis of the stakes for hotels.
September 22, 2025 · 7 min
Spa hospitality and customer expectations in 2025
Discover the new expectations of customers in 2025 and the major challenges facing spa operators. Trend analysis and ways to stay competitive.
August 14, 2025 · 11 min
Emerging Trends in Luxury Hospitality: A New Era of Marketing and Guest Experience
I break down five trends reshaping luxury hospitality: emotional intelligence, technology that serves people, and a quieter, more transformational luxury.
May 8, 2025 · 4 min
The Battle of the Parisian Palaces: Dream or Reality in 2016
Laurent Delporte examines the battle of the Parisian palaces: new arrivals, renovations, and the true factor of differentiation, service.
December 16, 2024 · 3 min
A New World Ahead
After the health crisis, I share my conviction that hospitality must reinvent itself around common sense, respect for the environment and a new model.
December 16, 2024 · 3 min
Luxury Resorts: Seaside Development and Quest for Meaning
Luxury hotel expert Laurent Delporte reflects on the development of seaside luxury resorts, environmental impact, and the quest for meaning.
December 16, 2024 · 6 min
Luxury Hotels & the Quest for Meaning: Towards a New Model of Values
By wanting to preserve a certain tradition, the luxury hotel industry has not always been able to adapt to the changing needs of its customers. Laurent Delporte, luxury hotel expert, dives into the quest for meaning in luxury hotels in order to change existing models and bring a new vision.
December 16, 2024 · 8 min
Hotel Design and Guest Experience: Towards Hospitality Based on Meaning and Naturalness
How to improve the customer experience in luxury hotels? Naturalness, hotel design and hotel design centered on well-being: a strategic approach to create high-performance establishments.
December 16, 2024 · 19 min
The Future of Luxury Hotels
COVID 19 & Hospitality The covid crisis and the implementation of almost general confinement across the entire planet have flattened our entire economy. This unprecedented situation propels the hotel industry into a hibernation of several months. A large majority of customers of this hotel are international. Until it is [...]
December 16, 2024 · 3 min
The ORIGINE Room: Imagining Tomorrow's Hotel Room (2025-2035)
Designed back in 2016 with the AW² agency, the ORIGINE room anticipates the 2025-2035 hotel room: sustainable, restorative and centred on people.
March 20, 2018 · 6 min
The 5 Vital Needs That Will Shape the Hotel Room of the Future
Sleep, breathe, nourish, recover: I share the five vital needs that should guide how we design the hotel room of the future.
March 20, 2018 · 4 min
Luxury hotels: a rapidly evolving sector
Laurent Delporte, French expert in luxury hotels, shares his exchange with François Delahaye, general director of Dorchester Collection.
March 19, 2018 · 8 min
Hospitality trends 2017
The trends I sense in the hotel industry for 2017: the rise of content, more personalised stays and the changing expectations of travellers.
February 25, 2017 · 7 min