In your opinion, what about it needs disrupting, and how is Habitas doing so? One of Habitas’s main goals is to “disrupt” the hospitality industry. While Mexico remains the home of Habitas’s flagship property, the brand is now flexing its muscles further afield, with new openings in Bhutan, Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica all in the cards / ©Habitas Through Habitas, we have a platform on which to encourage conscious tourism and set new standards in sustainable development. We also look to source local materials, produce and set up and support local micro-economies. We set up pop-up schools to train and hire locals, as for us, hospitality is the kind of experience you receive when you come into an old friend’s home, so it has to feel local. We focus on giving back by strengthening local communities, education and promoting sustainable and conscious tourism. We believed it was our responsibility to create our own impact initiative, and thus Habitas Rise was born. Philanthropy has been a huge passion of mine throughout my life and has become increasingly important as we develop Habitas, which is built on human connection and supporting local communities. You are often described as a philanthropist – how important do you think it is that individuals with the means to do so actively engage in environmental and social causes?
While building a traditional process requires multiple stakeholders, we design, manufacture, develop and operate our hotels under the Habitas brand, using technology to create efficiencies in scale, timing and cost. We faced many problems, and we ended up creating solutions in-house, step by step, building the different pieces of the company.īy the end, we had vertically integrated our entire process. We did things differently because we knew no better. We never set out to create a hospitality company – Habitas was born out of passion. When you’re building a growing business and trying to disrupt an established industry, you will always be met by challenges and people who are skeptical of what you are doing.
View all newsletters Sign up to our newsletter Latest in Luxury By the Elite Traveler team Sign up here And the group is more than just hospitality: in addition to its ever-growing roster of hotels, Habitas has a charity arm – Habitas Rise – dedicated to supporting emerging and impacted communities around the world via art, self-expression and community infrastructure. While Mexico remains the home of Habitas’s flagship property, the brand is now flexing its muscles further afield, with new hotel openings in Bhutan, Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica all in the cards. However, what began as a few pop-up retreats and gatherings developed into a more permanent enterprise: in 2017, the first Habitas hotel opened in Tulum, Mexico – a popular Mexican hotspot among creative millennials. With the help of co-founders Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo, Ripley launched Habitas in 2014 with the aim of connecting a diverse group of like-minded individuals. Here, he tells Elite Traveler about the inevitable challenges of developing a hotel group in such an unconventional way, as well as the freedom it allows.
HABITAS ALULA PRECIO SERIAL
The experience-led, eco-conscious hotel group Habitas has been making waves in the hospitality world since its somewhat accidental inception at the hands of serial entrepreneur Oliver Ripley.
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