Palm Beach prices are up 117% in five years and Dubai 147%. The next generation of private beach clubs is being engineered around hyper-personalization, wellness infrastructure, and lifestyle ecosystems — not cabanas and rum punch.
Tag: Country Clubs
Tropicana lost 20% of sales in two months. HBO Max came back after two years. Tribune undid Tronc within eighteen months. KSL’s playbook for the next sixty days has one obvious move that the market, the membership, and the management team are quietly waiting for — restore the name.
Industry initiation fees rose 8.7% YoY and dues 6.2% — but at the top of the market, waitlist depth, not pricing, decides who gets in. A breakdown of what real membership costs in 2026.
Memorial Day Weekend compresses 4–6% of annual F&B volume into 72 hours and stress-tests every dues-justification a club has built. The pricing architecture, programming inventory, and operational habits that separate the clubs that win the weekend from the ones that don’t.
The survey questions that actually predict member churn — and the ones that waste everyone’s time.
How private clubs are turning outdoor dining into their most profitable summer program.
We sat down with Zack Bates to talk about how Private Club Marketing started, what he has learned working with 200+ clubs, and where the industry is headed.
The 12 most iconic private golf clubs opening for spring season — history, rankings, and what makes each one legendary.
The largest single migration of concentrated American wealth in a generation is flowing out of California — and a disproportionate share of it is rerouting through Montana’s private golf and ski clubs. Data, implications, and the operator playbook.
Why raising membership dues and initiation fees can actually increase demand at private clubs.