Dorchester Collection
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Sep 16, 2026
GMH Hotels: Dorchester Said No to Scale. Here Is What That Cost.
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20:35Sarah DandashyHOST
All right, well, why don't we go on here to our, we're just flying through topics today.
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20:40Sarah DandashyHOST
Dorchester's stand against the flattening of luxury.
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20:44Sarah DandashyHOST
I think this was pretty cool because I'm familiar with a lot of these properties, particularly that one, which is the image of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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20:50Sarah DandashyHOST
So Dorchester Collection CEO, Jennifer Fox is making a case that the greatest threat to luxury hospitality is not competition from other luxury brands, true, but it's the homogenization of the category itself.
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21:04Sarah DandashyHOST
So when every luxury hotel has the same spa menu, the same F&B philosophy, the same program, the same design language, the word luxury stops meaning much of anything.
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21:17Sarah DandashyHOST
So I think that that's a really interesting point.
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21:19Sarah DandashyHOST
And by the way, Dorchester, I mean, I don't know if you've been to any of their properties, but they only have nine hotels and they deliberately have stayed small.
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21:28Steve TurkHOST
Didn't we talk about them last week, what they're doing in England and London? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.