Lush sees mixed year, plans Lush hotel

Ethical beauty brand Lush has filed its accounts for the year to last June and they show turnover dropping by 5% to £674.5 million. The company also remained loss-making as it continued to invest heavily in its store estate. Lush The company recorded a group EBITDA loss with the previous year’s EBITDA profit of £2.1…

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How to Get a Great Rate on a Hotel Room

With the cost of hotel stays generally trending upward — 2024 saw the highest recorded average daily rates in the U.S., for starters — the luxury hospitality world may not seem the most fertile bargain-hunting ground. But you can still find deals, and they go well beyond those you can obtain by converting your credit…

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After Heathrow, Who Pays for Missed Cruises and Hotel Bookings?

Last Friday’s power outage in Heathrow Airport disrupted vacations across the world, causing countless thousands of travelers to miss prepaid reservations and forgo long-anticipated adventures. Among them were Sheila Addison, a therapist from Seattle, who missed out on a four-day whisky-tasting in the Scottish Highlands, forfeiting a $500 nonrefundable hotel room and a rare break…

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