Paul Crowe, chief executive at Ireland’s The Oyster Circle destination club, is the latest executive to feature in our series of interviews with the people heading up destination clubs around the world. For more information on the club, please see the Luxury Reporter overview of The Oyster Circle.

We spoke with the managing director of The Hideaways Club, Mark Smith, recently and sought his opinion on the destination club industry and its future. Here are his thoughts, and our analysis. For more information, please see the Luxury Reporter profile of The Hideaways Club.

We recently interviewed the man at the head of the BelleHavens destination club, Darin Gilson, and asked him some of the tough questions prospective members should be asking their destination clubs of interest. Here are Darin’s answers, and some of his thoughts about the industry.