At a time when digital communication and ever-hectic routines are making it increasingly hard for people to disconnect from their screens, launching a holiday retreat rooted in the pursuit of community, meditation, and life's simple pleasures feels as countercultural as refreshing.
To many, this would seem like a gamble, but for nightlife entrepreneurs Mario Hertel and Thomas Heyne, the founders of Mykonos hospitality group Scorpios, investing in travelers' growing desire for arts, gastronomy, wellness, and entertainment experiences was the way to bring the ecstatic, unifying essence of clubbing into daytime — hangovers excluded. Opened last June, Scorpios Bodrum, the first property from the firm's portfolio to land outside of Greece as part of its global expansion, proves their leap of faith was well worth the challenge.
