As the leading authority on hotel investment for the Caribbean, the conference provided incredible insight into the region’s hospitality industry. Lucas Cadavid, Country Director, SB Architects, shares his top five takeways.

SB Architects’s has conceived of a series of adaptable healing spaces – Zomes – designed to awaken guests’ inner worlds while celebrating the culture, character, and soulful spirit of Portugal.

As designers, we are tasked with creating spaces that have an emotional impact on the user through materiality and the built environment, but also through the guest’s first impression and journey. When designing, we have numerous tools and ‘data points’ to draw from; intuition, history, culture, and most recently: digital data.