Olivia Palamountain

Country & Town House • 1st June 2022

Call of the Wild

With pent-up wanderlust finally released, big ticket trips – with conservation at their heart – are inspiring travellers with cash to spend. Olivia Palamountain heads to the Ngorongoro Crater for some animal adventures

Matter Of Form • 1st June 2022

Placemaking: Phasing In The Phygital

Creating places that promote health, happiness and wellbeing is the ultimate task for urban designers who wish to build sustainably for the future. How can design, storytelling and digital innovation can build people-centred places that last lifetimes?

Matter Of Form • 1st June 2022

Retail Reset: The Shift to Thrift

How is the shift to thrift challenging brands like never before and where is the potential to become a trailblazer?

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

The Rise of NFTs in Retail

Now the world is up to speed at what exactly an NFT is (we’ve all seen the dodgy art, the Louis Vuitton mobile game and Gucci’s AR sneakers), the scope for retail brands to jump on board the NFT train is growing. Are you ready?

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

The Diversification of the Hospitality Industry

Diversification strategies in business are nothing new, but the mass acceleration and adoption of innovation that we’ve seen over the course of the past year is. The hospitality business is an excellent case in point...

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

Crypto Checks In

Proponents see limitless potential while critics see nothing but risk, but in the travel sector at least, blockchain technology and its associated digital currencies are being touted as the future

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

Out and About: LGBTQ+ Travel Now

Uwern Jong, Experientialist-in-Chief of OutThere, the world’s leading LGBTQ+ luxury travel title, shares the new and the next for gay travellers, how the travel landscape is evolving for this community and what hospitality brands can do to better...

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

Audi and the Era of Electrification

Audi is no stranger to successful evolution. Today it is transforming itself for the new era of electrification.

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

The Future of Travel: Less for Longer

Championing a Live Work Play ethos means so much more than speedy wifi and communal desk space. So how do you choose the workation destination that’s right for you?

Matter Of Form • 2nd February 2022

Christmas at Corinthia: In Conversation with Thomas Kochs (MD)

Thomas Kochs, Managing Director at Corinthia London, shares the lowdown on how the best hotels in the business bring the festive season to life and what brands can learn from his experience.

Globetrender • 2nd February 2022

Review: Turkey's Hillside Beach Club is making resorts cool again

Turkey’s Hillside Beach Club is a high-end resort that aims to deliver all things to all people. Even reluctant 30-somethings.

Globetrender • 2nd February 2022

Review: Dishpatch delivers meal kits from top restaurants

Dishpatch delivers meal kits from the UK’s finest restaurants. Now it wants to cater your Christmas – but does it beat home cooking?

Globetrender • 2nd February 2022

Review: Sachi at Pantechnicon

Sachi showcases authentic Japanese flavours from its home in the vault of Pantechnicon, a concept store bringing a forgotten enclave of London back to life.

Globetrender • 2nd February 2022

Stranded in Paradise

Currently on assignment in the Maldives, Olivia Palamountain was scheduled to transit through Doha airport in Qatar, after it was placed on the UK government’s ‘red list’. The only sensible answer to swerving Covid prison? Extend her stay in paradise.

Globetrender • 2nd February 2022

What's it like to visit the Maldives during the pandemic?

Olivia Palamountain leaves the UK (for business purposes) to explore the Sun Siyam portfolio of island resorts in the Maldives, and ends up taking an extended workation.

Globetrender • 28th October 2021

LPM debuts 'immersive cocktail experience' inspired by Jean Cocteau

LPM has devised a cocktail menu dedicated to legendary French artist, writer, and bon-vivant Jean Cocteau, complete with a ‘levitating’ Old Fashioned and a love letter to Coco Chanel.

ELLE • 7th October 2021

'I Killed My Best Friend With One Drunken Mistake'

Nobody knows why Scarlett got in her car to drive off from a party alone and drunk that night. Well, no one except me.

CityAM • 6th October 2021

Sun, sea and a whole new me: A fitness retreat in St Lucia

To tone up and tune in without skimping on the yummy stuff, St Lucia has the answer.

Globetrender • 23rd September 2021

Review: The Sea, The Sea is a restaurant-cum-laboratory

Not just a restaurant, Hackney’s The Sea, The Sea is also a seafood processing lab with its own ‘shellfish hotel’ and walk-in dry-ageing room.

Globetrender • 16th September 2021

Review: Saorsa 1875 – the UK's first all-vegan hotel

At Saorsa 1875, the UK’s first fully plant-based hotel, every element has been designed to exacting ethical standards – even the duvets are made from recycled plastic bottles.