Award-winning luxury travel journalist and hotel expert covering luxury hotels, wellness retreats, fine dining and destinations across Europe, Asia and Australia.

 

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Renae Leith-Manos has more than 25 years’ experience reviewing luxury hotels, restaurants and wellness destinations, bringing an insider perspective to independent luxury travel journalism.

 

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The Fairmont Peace Hotel is more than a five-star hotel in Shanghai. It is part of the city’s identity. Set on the Bund beneath its famous green copper pyramid, the former Cathay Hotel has been welcoming royalty, celebrities, business leaders and international travellers since 1929. Now, as it prepares to become Raffles Peace Hotel Shanghai in 2027 following an extensive renovation, this legendary property is entering one of the most significant chapters in its history.

Rewilding tourism is emerging as one of luxury travel’s most compelling new trends, with affluent travellers increasingly seeking experiences that actively restore nature rather than simply reduce their impact. From European rewilding projects to private wilderness reserves in Scotland and New Mexico, the new definition of luxury is becoming less about excess — and more about leaving a destination better than you found it.