Luxury Hoteliers Magazine 4th Quarter 2019 | Page 97

THE BANE OF CONNECTIVITY The results of our high-tech, digitally connected age have been a mixture of the unexpectedly beneficial and the unintentionally harmful. And it’s that latter result, specifically stress-related wellness issues, that has driven the latest shift in what defines luxury. According to WGSN, “not long ago, technology was a status symbol for the rich, but HNWIs are now increasingly paying to avoid using it.” ILHA 97