Small Luxury Hotels of the World has confirmed a new structure for the company. This restructure allows for a £12 million investment over the next five years into the luxury brand by the owners of the management company and makes member hotels shareholders in Small Luxury Hotels of the World Limited.

Breaking Travel News here talks Filip Boyen, newly-appointed chief executive at Small Luxury Hotels of the World at Arabian Travel Market 2016. On the agenda is a drive at the group to refine the portfolio of properties offered by the brand, its new ownership and the growing importance of the Middle East as a source market.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the champion of small, luxury, independent hotels, has announced Filip Boyen as its new chief executive effective immediately. Boyen who was appointed as managing director of Hill, Goodridge & Associates, SLH’s management company, in July of this year will now also assume leadership for the management of the SLH brand, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Following another record-breaking year for the business with its highest reported revenue, room nights and Club Members in the business’s history, Small Luxury Hotels of the World is looking forward to a bumper jubilee year. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, the luxury hotel company is at the top of its game with exciting hotel openings, new destinations and a brand new arm to the company, ‘Private Residences by SLH’.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World is seeking to make a new contribution to the luxury hotel sector with the launch of Private Residences by SLH. The hotel marketing organisation hopes the collection will give guests the ‘best of both worlds’ – the personal service of a small luxury hotel with the private space of an exclusive-use villa, ski chalets, estates and yachts, all handpicked with ten rooms or less and offering five star services and facilities.

There is nothing small about the first quarter results for Small Luxury Hotels of the World, which is maintaining its outstanding success in 2013 with steady business growth. Following the best year in SLH’s 21 year history in 2012, the brand has reported a year on year six per cent increase in room nights booked and has added properties around the globe to its outstanding portfolio.