Luxury Briefing.

With years of experience as President & COO of Ritz-Carlton behind him, HORST SCHULZE set up Capella Hotels & Resorts, a new hotel management company he named after a brilliant star. It aims to create destination properties as well as hotels in business centres, all designed to meet the very individual demands of its high-end target market. Schulze has started by opening Capella hotels in Ireland, Germany and Austria with more on the way in Mexico, Singapore, Japan and Colorado. Here’s how he is doing it

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