Gabriel Perera
@gabrielperera
Gabriel Perera
@gabrielperera
“Most people believe the alternative to cars is better transit—in truth, it’s better neighborhoods.” 71

Today I had the opportunity to present The Future of Wellness to the Mandarin Oriental corporate office in London and it marks a pivotal moment for where luxury hospitality is heading.
Some of what we know and what I shared.....
Guests who sleep well leave better reviews.
Sleep is the single most powerful driver of top-quartile reviews in luxury
Singapore’s prosperity could have turned it into another bumper-to-bumper Bangkok, whose congestion—gridlocking the average driver the equivalent of forty-four full days a year—is estimated to reduce Thailand’s entire GDP by about one-sixth. Yet Singapore is rarely congested, because it taxes cars heavily, auctions the right to buy them, imposes a
... See more“We try to focus and do very few things well. And focussing is hard because focussing doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ it means saying ‘no’. So we decide not to do a lot of things so we can focus on a handful of things and do them very well”. - Steve Jobs
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”