4. GET LOST IN MUSIC

Music is set to dominate the hotel scene in 2019: W Hotels has launched its own record label, providing recording space (in Bali, Barcelona, Hollywood and Seattle), video shoot locations, production and distribution; while the highly anticipated Standard Hotel on London’s Euston Road, opening in the spring, will offer a studio and record press.

Hotel radio stations and podcast suites are also on the up. The new Eaton Workshop hotel, in Washington DC and Hong Kong, both broadcast local shows inspired by New York’s East Village station, while newcomer The Mayfair in Los Angeles has a podcast recording room. It’s not all about the serious side of music, however – Les Bains, the former