LaTour Group's Tom LaTour

Thomas LaTour will be bringing the “LaTour Touch” to the shared-ownership luxury resort market, using his 23 years as chairman and CEO of the guest pampering boutique chain Kimpton Hotels & Resorts to start up the San Francisco-based LaTour Signature Properties, a consulting and management firm for developers of small, ground-up, shared-ownership resorts at emerging ski, golf, oceanfront and urban locations. The firm will consult with developers on construction, amenities and the Kimpton Hotels signature, a five-star restaurant, and a staff trained in the LaTour way of management and customer service.

The first project LaTour is consulting on design, amenities and will operate is under construction in Olamar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, selling one-eight interests ranging for units costing $1,000 per sf. Residences will range from $300,000 to $2 million in properties of 50 to 150 units in all of the developments

LaTour says he will bring the same guest services style he pushed at Kimpton, as he grew the chain from 11 to 40 properties, to the small shared-ownership projects in top resort locations.