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Inspirato, the luxury vacation club has brought out a new deal custom made for businesses. Called ‘Inspirato for Business’, this new scheme allows companies to book luxury homes for their meetings, incentives and what not. Inspirato is a combination of a luxury travel club, much like the Exclusive Resorts (they were both founded by the same people), and a peer to peer rental like Airbnb. They have multiple tiered memberships, with the basic membership fee of $17,500, which you have to pay upfront and then the annual fee of $3,000. After that, you get to chose a wide array of luxury rentals spread all over the world. Their recent deal with American Express gives card members a $2,500 discount on the initiation fee and $400 on the annual fee. All the Inspirato properties are multi-million dollar estates that would normally cost thousands of dollars to rent per night. But with an Inspirato membership they cost just a few hundred bucks. An the people at Inspirato make sure their membe...

Soho House, over seventeen years has established itself as a global brand private member’s club and hotel chain. It was launched originally as a media-friendly alternative to the traditional London private members’ clubs in St James’ but it has grown beyond expectation and has become a global phenomenon. The chic club launched in 1995 is still in an expansion mode and will be adding five new properties to its global portfolio in the next two years. The brand has grown beyond a club and it now includes restaurants, hotels and cinemas. And more importantly the brand has acquired the status of an arbiter of taste on London’s art and media scene. Soho House announced the launch of five new properties by 2014. Soho House’s founder Nick Jones has personally selected the new destinations for expansion as he finds these cities to be creative hubs. The new destinations include Barcelona, Chicago, Istanbul, Mumbai and Toronto. Soho House is not new to Toronto as they have b...