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August 23, 2018 INSIGHT BY JERI CLAUSING New social responsibility programs by luxe hotel firms Giving back to local communities, or corporate social responsibility, has long been a focus of the travel industry. READ MORE NEWS New boutique hotel brand to be named Pilot The brand incorporates her 12-room Washington School House Hotel in Park City, Utah, and the soon-to-launch 16-room Hotel Chteau du Grand-Luce. READ MORE Virtuoso still sees room for growth in booming luxury travel The consortium announced it now has 1,000-plus agency locations, up 200 in the past year, representing 17,500 travel advisers. READ MORE United plans to expand lie-flat seats to more routes The carrier is developing lie-flat seats for its narrowbody Boeing 737 Max 10 aircraft, enabling it to offer the feature on more transcontinental routes. READ MORE Belmond would find plenty of takers for its properties However, given Belmond's sprawling portfolio, major hotel groups might find an acquisition of the entire business unwieldy. READ MORE Out with the W Hotel, in with the Grand Tower at the SLS Las Vegas Roughly a year and a half after W Hotels made its Las Vegas debut via a 289-room tower at the SLS Las Vegas, the stylish, design-centric brand is packing its gilded W and leaving the desert. READ MORE Advertisement Advertisement FEATURED STORY Something special: Agents turn passions into profits Call it superspecialization, call it microspecialization: Agents are successfully focusing on their travel passions, from luxury rail journeys to year-long family trips. READ MORE Advertisement MORE FROM TRAVEL WEEKLY From the Window Seat: Postmortem: Why WayBlazer shut down By Arnie Weissmann What brings down a company is seldom a single cause. And the final factor may have more to do with financial engineering than software engineering.    READ MORE LUXURY Editor: Jeri Clausing Email the editor Follow us on: Subscribe to Travel Weekly eNewsletters For promotional opportunities in this newsletter, contact sales@travelweekly.com 100 Lighting Way, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094   201-902-2000 Privacy Policy You can unsubscribe if you wish to stop receiving TW Luxury newsletter.