Attending VIP champagne receptions, accessing exquisite private collections, enjoying the world’s most esteemed art historians as tour guides; the Art Fund's luxury holidays are based around great creative moments in history, but what justifies the price is exclusive access.

With Far-Eastern tourists becoming more extravagant, and Western visitors searching for authenticity, luxury hospitality is undergoing a difficult transformation. The solution, for the Waldorf Astoria Group, is to offer a new gastronomic experience that celebrates the brand’s heritage yet offers a series of new iconic dishes to attract fine-dining travellers.

Chinese tourists are expected to make over 200 million trips by 2020; three times more than tourists from the US. But how are Chinese tastes affecting the world’s most expensive hotel rooms? What can hotels do to make these tourists feel welcome on their first trips abroad?

'Unhotel' service onefinestay allows well-heeled travellers to live like locals in luxurious surroundings. A concierge service and careful property curation provide value at a time when comparison sites are seeing hotels lose their spark.