Claridge’s owner to triple its number of hotels as luxury travel booms

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Claridge’s owner Maybourne is planning to nearly triple its number of hotels in the next decade, expanding into Paris, New York, Miami and Dubai to tap into booming demand for luxury travel.

The company, which owns and operates six hotels — four in London and one each in Beverly Hills and the French Riviera — is looking to have 15 to 17 by 2035, according to co-chief executives Gianluca Muzzi and Marc Socker. Half of these would be management contract only, rather than under Maybourne’s ownership.

“Before, [our focus] was mostly around the hotels . . . to preserve their identity, but what we are…