Christian Clerc - President & CEO of Auberge Collection

Olga Polizzi has revolutionised luxury hotel ambience – every design feels as if it’s a Rocco Forte home and you’re a guest.

Richard Leuenberger runs the forever-legend Badrutt’s Palace, where forever-happening innovations keep it forefront.

Christian Clerc knows quiet luxury is Auberge Collection’s key to success.

Joanne Selby explains the inside-outs of rebranding what is now InterContinental Table Bay, Cape Town.

Andrew Foulkes, at The Newt in Somerset, rules territory that includes two hotels, world-famous gardens and orchards – and a railway creamery.

At Six Senses Zighy Bay, Diletta Guarino infuses warm Italian style to northern Oman.

Luis Pinheiro runs the art-filled Silo Hotel atop Cape Town’s long-established grain silos, now the Museum of Contemporary African Art.

Stuart Procter, CEO of The Beaumont, London, has always believed in doing things differently.

Antonio Saponara, GM of Capella Bangkok, arrived just as it was anonymously voted best hotel in the world – what were, and are, the challenges?

As GM of Amangalla, Kaya Onoran has unique challenges running an historic fort-hotel in southern Sri Lanka