Distinguished Travel Hacker

Why You Should Reject an Upgrade to a Hotel’s Presidential Suite

Insights from Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé include why the city that never sleeps is still in its stretchy-pants phase, Japan isn’t what it used to be and why Zurich beats London.

Tyler Brûlé, editorial director of Monocle magazine, poses for a photograph inside a Monocle store in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong in 2019.

Photographer: Kyle Lam/Bloomberg

At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we’re doing it right. So we’re talking to globe-trotters in all of our luxury fields — food, wine, sports, cars, real estate — to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are the Distinguished Travel Hackers.

The World Economic Forum is underway with high-powered meetings going on in Davos, Switzerland, but Monocle’s Tyler Brûlé, 54, is just as happy being in his home base of Zurich two hours away by car.