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One Fell Swoop - International Study Tour 2024 - United Kingdom, Italy

Our next International Study Tour will take off in September. Why don’t you join us for this one-of-a-kind experience?

Join One Fell Swoop and guest co-host Marchese Partners for IST2024 and experience the latest innovations in retirement living and care. Our 10-day tour will take you to London, Bristol and Bath, as well as stunning Florence and Siena in Italy. In addition to touring outstanding communities, we’ll hold masterclasses and take a deep dive into some very special developments with their owners, operators, architects and sales managers. Come along and learn how they are changing retirement living for the better.

Top reasons to tour with us

Masterclasses Across several days, discover the innovations of world-leading communities.
Tour 13 communities Unique, mixed use, redevelopment and greenfield sites.
Gain valuable insights Discover the importance of health and wellbeing.
Sales and contract insights Challenge your thinking on financial models.
First-hand experience See some of the world’s most luxurious communities.
Networking opportunities Build lasting connections with your peers.

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Actionable learnings

We examine the built form, financial models and service and operations culture in communities of varying size and scale to bring that innovation into our thinking – thinking we action into meaningful intelligence for our Australian clients. These insights don’t come from retirement communities alone. We visit mixed-use developments, communities co-located with universities and childcare and architectural projects that are breaking new ground design and material choices. Back-of-house tours of five star hotels help us understand the service culture that today’s seniors expect.

World-class hospitality

To complete the IST experience, we stay in five star hotels and enjoy the best of local cuisine at celebrated restaurants in each city. There is an exceptional, optional, extra-curricular program too, where you can immerse yourself in local culture, theatre, entertainment, sport or relaxation. Sharing such experiences and insights with your industry peers makes our IST a must for all those in the seniors’ industry at the C-suite level.

The places we have been on IST

2023
Chicago, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Los Angeles
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Our latest International Study Tour encompassed three US states, four hotels, 18 community tours, 20 delegates and 31,733 km. The packed program included presentations from experts on senior housing, longevity, mixed use projects, research, customer experience, health and wellbeing and dementia care, along with valuations, financing and sales. We toured luxury resort communities, boutique independent living projects, broadacre and vertical communities and world class developments.
2018
Toronto, Quebec City, Montreal, Vancouver
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On this ambitious and exciting tour, we learned about diverse communities; from brand new vertical developments to ethnic and religion specific villages, to an exciting mixed-use project. Our delegates gained first-hand knowledge of the latest industry developments from Canada’s finest, along with a leadership conference in Toronto, where insights from the Canadian industry’s most impressive minds were shared.
2017
Copenhagen, Malmo, Hamburg, Berlin
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Our tour took delegates through five of the best cities in Denmark, Sweden and Germany. We discovered why Europe’s wealthiest families are changing retirement living for the better by building their own environment. We toured multi-generational housing developments, luxury seniors’ apartments, ‘living’ neighbourhoods, a converted convent, an innovative end-of-life facility and a Buddhist centre, while hearing from leading seniors’ architects, urban developers and housing companies.
2016
Britain, Rotterdam, Amsterdam
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Our IST 16 delegates discovered the latest innovations in UK seniors’ living, while experiencing the exceptional service delivery of an award-winning suite of luxury hotels. Kicking off the tour was a two-day leadership conference, along with 14 vertical and broadacre tours, masterclasses with the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, insights on assisted living, in-home and residential aged care and a trip to The Netherlands to learn more about their innovative work on dementia care.
2015
New York City, Washington, Orlando, Dallas
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Starting in New York, we packed our dynamic tour into 10 days. For IST 15 we attended over 20 presentations and tours, met some of the world’s best operators, went ‘backstage’ at leading retirement communities and prestige hotels, and got the low down on new technology. Delegates arrived home armed with a wealth of newfound knowledge and inspirational ideas – ready to nurture much needed growth in the Australian seniors’ industry.
2014
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco
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For our first ever IST, 24 delegates from Australia and New Zealand travelled to eighteen communities across Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. A key focus of the tour was to develop insights into high-end hospitality and experiential businesses. Back-of-house hotel tours (including the London in West Hollywood and the Grand Del Mar in San Diego) were organised to understand their approaches to large scale customer service delivery.