Wonderful Escapes: How Salt Inns CEO David Bowd Scratches His Vacation Itch From Residence

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A single could say motels are a way of lifestyle for
David Bowd.
His resume reveals 35 a long time of experience steering some of the hospitality world’s most outstanding players. 

Initially from Salt, England, Bowd still left high faculty at 16 to pursue what would be his long term in hospitality. He understood that official education and learning wasn’t for him, so he labored from the floor up, starting as a bellman before getting the hotelier he is today.

He secured senior positions with Hilton and Marriott, Thistle Accommodations, and the Philippe Starck-imagined St. Martins Lane and
Sanderson
prior to skipping across the pond to New York Metropolis, assuming administration roles with Morgans Resort Group,
Ian Schrager,
and
Andre Balazs.
In the U.S. , he’s helmed nine properties ranging from The Mercer in New York to the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, and the opening of the Chiltern Firehouse in London.

In 2014, Bowd, 51, opened the Salt Dwelling Inn in Provincetown, Mass., with Kevin O’Shea, his companion in lifestyle and company. “I remaining the company earth with an simpler life in head, with just one particular tiny inn,” he suggests. “And so, Salt Resorts was born.”

The charming, shingle-design and style mattress and breakfast became the flagship for the team’s rising and award-winning hotel brand, named immediately after the village where by Bowd grew up. Since its debut, the pair has added 4 added boutique properties—Eben Home in Provincetown, Mass. The Asbury and Asbury Ocean Club, the two in Asbury Park, N.J. and
Hutton Brickyards
in New York’s Hudson Valley, scheduled to open in 2021. Other tasks are in the performs. 

“I was impressed by what our friends appreciated,” he says. “I knew we could generate extra spaces with the structure aspects of an city hotel and the individualized support of a place retreat,” he says.

In 2016, the team launched “Salt School” in Asbury Park. This absolutely free, eight-7 days training course teaches an introduction to the hospitality business, with classes in guest working experience, food and beverage, gross sales and marketing, and other pertinent topics. Considering that its inception, four universities have properly trained additional than 500 nearby learners, and numerous have landed work at Asbury Park’s Salt spots.

Though Bowd has used some time for the duration of the shutdown in Kingston, N.Y.—the locale of his most recent project—for the most aspect, he’s hunkered down in Provincetown with O’Shea, Salt Hotels’ main imaginative officer. Right up until the planet is risk-free to investigate once again, Bowd proceeds to savor food items and wine and aspiration about future journeys. Here’s how he’s scratching his journey itch without traveling.

Preparing Dim Sum. “The extra time at dwelling has authorized us to dive into our comprehensive assortment of cookbooks and sample various cuisines from all over the earth as if we ended up touring. Our most loved so considerably has been the steamed buns and dumplings from A Prevalent Table by Cynthia Chen McTernan.”

Feasting on an Indian Specialties. “For the very last several yrs, I have spent at least one particular 7 days in London every year. I have been missing the Indian delicacies of Britain, specifically Rooster Tikka Masala, but a British neighbor of ours just lately mastered the artwork of the Tikka Masala, and we have had many evenings of curry and wine since. Speaking of wine…”

Ingesting Wines From the Napa Valley. “A couple many years ago we experienced a great split in Napa, it was definitely wonderful, and I fell in like with the area. We toured quite a few vineyards but ended up particularly taken with the Continuum Winery, and we have considering that been obtaining just about every yr. We have enjoyed the wine over several quarantine dinners.”

Observing Sir David Attenborough. “I have lengthy been a substantial admirer, so all through quarantine, we re-viewed aged episodes and enjoyed new episodes of his a lot of collection of nature reveals, including Planet Earth, Our Planet, and Blue Earth. They clearly show our environment and locations to journey in this sort of a lovely way, and act as a stark reminder for us to ensure anything we do considers character and the surroundings.”

Dreaming of Vacation. “I have expended a lot of time on Instagram hunting at magnificent accommodations and restaurants (both new and untried by me) and creating a checklist that I are unable to hold out to examine off when we all get started to travel yet again. My highlights involve Le Doyenne in Saint-Vrain, Ile-de-France Hotel August in Antwerp The Newt in Somerset, U.K. and Mezzatorre Lodge & Thermal Spa in Ischia, Italy.”