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Hospitality Net
5 hours ago
- Health
- Hospitality Net
Surrenne's South of France Debut at The Maybourne Riviera
Following the success of Surrenne Belgravia's debut in London, the wellness and longevity club has now arrived on the Côte d'Azur, going far beyond a traditional hotel spa with longevity stays, retreats, personalized treatments, and expert-led movement and fitness practices. Surrenne's holistic and science-backed approach elevates wellbeing for guests and members alike. This debut comes at an exciting time as the summer high season is in full swing and the Riviera is abuzz with the energy of Monaco and recent restoration of Gabrielle Chanel's clifftop artist and intellectual retreat, La Pausa. Spanning three floors, Surrenne Riviera offers signature treatments that merge cutting-edge technology with holistic therapies, tailored to address the unique needs of every guest. Surrenne also offers personalized facials (in partnership with Biologique Recherche - fusing science and skincare for lasting, visible results), recovery therapies including a signature lymphatic drainage treatment, and expert nutritional guidance, complemented by cold therapy, infrared therapy, osteopathy, and red-light therapy. Surrenne Riviera also features four wellness-focused studios: the Surrenne Gym with state-of-the-art Technogym equipment; the Performance Studio for one-on-one training; and the open-air Waves Studio and Riviera Reflections, which offer group classes like yoga, spinning, TRX, and Pilates, created with Lagree Fitness. More than a wellness retreat and in-keeping with Maybourne's legacy of excellence, Surrenne establishes a new benchmark in transformative wellbeing for guests and members. Perched on the rocky peninsula of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, The Maybourne Riviera offers breathtaking views from Italy in the east to Monte-Carlo in the west. This jewel of the French Riviera features 65 rooms, including 24 suites, each with a private terrace overlooking the Mediterranean. A true gastronomic destination, the hotel boasts 4 restaurants and one bar, including a private beach and abc kitchens, helmed by Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Surrenne a longevity center, dedicated to well-being, and an infinity pool complete this unique experience, suspended between sky and sea. Hotel website
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Travel + Leisure
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Travel + Leisure
Jelly Shoes Are Making a Major Comeback This Summer—and This Style is Surprisingly Comfy to Travel In
As a kid in the '90s, I lived in jelly shoes. Plastic flats and sandals in eye-popping, glitter-flecked colors ruled my childhood. Now, in the year 2025, my inner eight-year-old is happy to witness this fun flavor of summer footwear making a comeback on TikTok—and they're not just for children. PVC sandals are shaping up to make a major revival this summer, appearing on the shelves at Target, Old Navy, and Gap, as well as the runways of designers from Chloé to The Row. Their unexpected cameos on catwalks and the feet of fashion influencers show that this polarizing trend can actually be adult-friendly, and surprisingly comfy, as well. $69 $55 at Amazon $69 at Nordstrom $69 at When you picture a jelly shoe, you likely see Melissa's hero Possession sandals, right?. The Brazilian brand calls it 'the original fisherman-inspired jelly shoe that transformed the '90s generation into jelly lovers,' and this comfortable style is even well-suited for walking, making it an unexpected choice to become your new go-to travel shoes. Debuting in 1997, the sandals were designed to look and function like the shoes anglers wore on the Côte d'Azur. The fisherman style—featuring an open toe and woven straps that drain water—has been sported on boats and coasts since ancient times. They're traditionally made from leather, rubber, or other materials that easily shed water, but Melissa's fashionable take is made of bubble gum-scented, partially recycled PVC. Rest assured, they're far more comfortable than they sound. $69 $55 at Amazon $69 at Nordstrom $69 at Shoppers have raved that this take on the traditionally rigid jelly style is actually 'extremely comfy,' with one person adding that they could 'walk miles' in them. Meanwhile, another reviewer marvelled that they're 'just like the OG jellies I used to have with one incredible exception—they're actually … comfortable.' They revealed that they've 'been wearing them nonstop in a heat wave with no chafing, no blisters, [and] no sweaty slippery feet,' even adding that cushioning at the insoles makes them 'genuinely comfortable to wear all day.' Not to mention, the $69 Possession sandals have earned hundreds of ratings on the Melissa site, racking up an average 4.8-star rating. While the site is still stocked with timeless favorites, Melissa has also released modernized versions of its jelly sandals with new colors, fresh vegan and sustainability certifications, and even all-star collaborations, like with the high-end Parisian shoe brand Nodaleto. In addition to the original Possession style, there's also the Possession Heel, Possession Platform II, and an array of other trendy iterations, all in the same style as the iconic fisherman shoes. While Melissa seems to be leading the new wave of a more comfortable take on jelly shoe nostalgia, countless other brands are joining in with their own variations, too. Whether you're in the market for cute new beach shoes or are looking for a stylish pair of sandals for your summer travels, read on to find more sleek and sophisticated jelly shoes we expect to see everywhere in the coming weeks, from $15. At the time of publishing, the price started at $69. Love a great deal? Sign up for our T+L Recommends newsletter and we'll send you our favorite travel products each week.
Forbes
16-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Cannes Lions Gathers Ad Business As WPP Media Report Flags Challenges
Brand marketing and management, branding or rebranding concept. 3d illustration of a magnifying ... More glass over golden and black words. As the ad industry kicks off the annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, the sunny climate of the Cote d'Azur can't mask the storm clouds that surround many in the business. WPP Media's latest Global Midyear Forecast, This Year Next Year, certainly doesn't provide a completely dour forecast, but does highlight the gravity of challenges confronting marketers, agencies, publishers, and their employees. WPP Media itself has undergone a tumultuous last couple of years, including the recent announcement that Mark Read, CEO of WPP itself, is leaving the company. WPP Media, WPP's media buying arm, is still the world's largest media buyer, but it ditched the familiar GroupM brand name and folded leadership of its agencies, Mindshare, Wavemaker and EssenceMediacom, into one central organization. The reorganized company has announced layoffs and recently lost several significant clients to Publicis. Of course ad industry disruption is hardly limited to WPP Media. No matter the environment, WPP Media's new forecast provides a number of timely insights around the ad business today and its pathway forward, and I spent some time with its author, Kate Scott-Dawkins, Global President of Business Intelligence for WPP Media. The sweep of the midyear forecast, including its global geography, millions of measurable media data points, and perspectives on the latest developments in AI, provides what WPP Media aims to be 'a comprehensive view of advertising [today] The WPP Media midyear forecast projects 6% growth in total 2025 ad revenue. This isn't a bad number in the context of our current global political, cultural, and environmental upheaval. But it is a drop of 22% from WPP Media's predicted growth of 7.7% just six months ago, and the report downgrades its growth expectations going forward not only for 2025 but for the next five years as well. The report notes the 'increasingly opaque economic environment [in which] many marketers have appeared to take a wait-and-see approach.' That's hardly a formula for a robust upfront market for U.S. ad sellers. And traditional TV is hardly fertile ground for any rising tide of advertising, as cable TV network revenue fell nearly 7% between 2023 and 2024, undoubtedly one of the factors driving major ad sellers in the traditional TV world to restructure themselves. One of the aspects of This Year Next Year that has garnered a good deal of attention is the growth in creator-driven ad revenue relative to the traditional video and audio media outlets. Within the world of 'content-driven advertising revenue' (think most everything but search), WPP Media defines 'creator-driven' ad revenue as that appearing on YouTube and social media platforms, and projects that this category will total nearly $185 billion in 2025, for the first time surpassing ad revenue from TV (including streaming), which the report projects to hit roughly $162 billion this year. By 2030 WPP Media projects that this creator-driven ad revenue will top $376 billion globally. Wow - did traditional media need yet another challenging datapoint? The influencer/creator economy is hardly new, but its accelerating scale demonstrates its inextricable integration into the broad ad marketplace. The WPP Media report doesn't provide much light at the end of the tunnel of Big Tech's ad revenue dominance. According to the report, the top 25 global media owners, running from Google through U.S. media companies through China's Xiaomi Global, accounted for 70% of all ad revenues in 2024. And just five companies - Google, Meta (Facebook, Instagram and What's App), ByteDance (TikTok's owner), Amazon and Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba - accounted for 54% of all ad revenues by themselves. Amazon alone ($55.9 billion) took in more in ad revenue than the combination of all five of the major U.S. media companies (Comcast, Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox). And looking forward, it's not going to get easier as WPP Media projects that the digital advertising share of ad revenues (think anything but traditional video and audio) will rise from 73% in 2025 to over 87% in 2030. There are no conversations about media, advertising or most anything else these days that don't touch on AI, so of course This Year Next Year had to provide insights on developments in that area as well. The challenge, as Scott-Dawkins noted, is 'how are you going to cover this momentous revolution in a way that feels comprehensive and not obsolete as soon as we published?' In search ad revenue, or what WPP Media here calls 'Intelligence Advertising,' the report sees 7.4% growth in 2025. But as the forecast notes this includes not just traditional Google-dominated search but 'answer engines' such as OpenAI, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Grok and Anthropic. The hope that ChatGPT and AI-driven platforms might weaken the Big Tech ad revenue stranglehold may be proving illusory. For better or worse, publishers have long been desperately dependent on traditional Google searches to drive clicks and traffic to their sites. Google's introduction of AI tools such as AI Overviews, obviating the need for consumers to click on Google's blue web links, has combined with increased AI-based searches to bring about declines in publisher site traffic over the last several years as much as 50% or higher. To paraphrase what Sally once told Harry: 'You can't take it back. It's already out there.' At least the Rose will be plentiful at Cannes Lions.
Daily Mail
14-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
That's Nice! Informa chiefs swan off on Riviera junket
The entire board of Informa will de-camp to the sun-drenched French Riviera this week for its annual meeting as the publisher becomes the latest London-listed company to deter shareholders from turning up to such events in person. Informa's move means its annual meeting will in effect be online-only for UK-based share owners as they would struggle to find the time – and in some cases the money – to attend. It would cost the best part of £1,000 in flights and accommodation to go to the meeting, held at the five-star Maison Albar hotel in the heart of Nice. Informa joins the likes of drugs giant AstraZeneca, defence contractor BAE Systems and toothpaste-maker Haleon in moving their annual meeting to what amounts to a digital-only format. Campaigners say firms are doing this to stifle scrutiny, debate and dissent in a blow to shareholder democracy. Catherine Howarth, head of small investor lobby group ShareAction, said Informa's migration to the balmy climes of the Cote d'Azur was another example of 'disappearing directors', adding: 'Its decision not to make the board available to shareholders in the usual way this year confirms a growing pattern of disregard for shareholder accountability and access.' She urged the Government and regulators to 'take steps to stop this pattern in its tracks'. Another shareholder described Informa's decision as 'incredible', while a third expressed surprise – not least because last year's in-person event in London was 'jam-packed' and 'one of the best I've ever attended'. The FTSE 100 company has been rocked by shareholder revolts over boardroom pay. Stephen Carter, a former chief adviser to Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, has earned almost £40 million since becoming chief executive in 2013. He could net £7.2 million this year – a fifth more than the £5.9 million he took home in 2024. Carter, who was the founding boss of communications regulator Ofcom before entering Downing Street, has presided over the rapid expansion of Informa into the world's largest business events group, lifting its stock market value to more than £10 billion. It also owns academic publisher Taylor & Francis. Last year Informa snapped up France's Ascential in a £1.2 billion deal that brought a prestigious advertising jamboree called Cannes Lions into its fold. Chairman John Rishton told investors the meeting was being held in nearby Nice 'to enable the board to attend' the festival, which is now Informa's largest single event and also takes place this week. He added: 'We are delighted to welcome shareholders to attend in person in France.' They are more likely to watch online, as one night at the hotel costs £765, breakfast included, while a return flight from Gatwick is at least another £87. Company law is unclear about where and in what form annual meetings should take place, as the legislation was drawn up 20 years ago, before staging virtual events became common. Meetings must be in a physical location but it is not stipulated if it has to be in the UK, if the board must be present or investors must be let in. Ministers are consulting on the issue. Firms argue that face-to-face meetings are costly to stage and can be disrupted by protesters – as happened recently at Drax when environmental activists forced the energy generator's meeting to end early. Some companies have gone back to a 'hybrid' format under pressure from shareholders. They include Marks & Spencer, which was accused of being 'arrogant' and setting 'an appalling precedent' after trying to make its meeting online-only. Informa said it 'would expect to return' to London for next year's AGM.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Paul Pogba set to make financial sacrifices in order to join Monaco
According to a report from Fabrice Hawkins, Paul Pogba (31) is willing to make financial sacrifices regarding his salary demands in order to sign for AS Monaco this summer. The France international midfielder has taken the necessary steps to complete the move to the Principality club. Pogba is a free agent after his contract with Juventus was terminated following the premature end to his drug suspension. Talks are ongoing between Les Monégasques and the representatives of the 31-year-old midfielder. Monaco are said to be cautious in the negotiations, but Pogba has been clear in his desire to make the move happen before the beginning of the new Ligue 1 season. Advertisement The former Manchester United midfielder has already been searching for property on the Côte d'Azur to settle his family in the Principality if the transfer does eventually go through. With the Frenchman willing to reduce his salary demands, Monaco could be willing to make the move happen. GFFN | Liam Wraith
