Denver-based luxury retreatcompany Collective Retreats is positioning itselffor significant expansion. The firm has partnered with investmentbanking firm RobertDouglas to aid in funding acquisition anddevelopment opportunities and achieve its growth objectives.Growing demand for experience has helped to launch the company'srecent growth initiative.

"Our mission is to revolutionize global travel througha collection of dynamic destination retreats and enrichingexperiences, connecting person, community and environment," Peter Mack, CEO ofCollective Retreats, tells GlobeSt.com. "People are becoming sohyper-connected through the digital world and devices andso over-scheduled and programmed that they're missing out ontrue human connection and self-actualization. We feel our mission andour experiences are more important now, for theworld, than ever before. Collective Retreats has been experiencingsuch strong demand that we feel we owe it to our loyal guests togive them more opportunities toexperience Collective."

Demand isn't only coming from clients—although the user demandis booming—but institutional capital sources as well. "There are somany beautiful, special places on our developmentroadmap and in our pipeline that we'd like to unlock the power ofthese places by expanding Collective Retreats," says Mack."At the same time, our retreats deliver very strong investorreturns, providing an opportunity to attract third-party realestate capital to accelerate our growth plan. The interest isstrong. In the last nine months, institutional capital interest inthe outdoor hospitality space has gone from "0" to "60" with majorcommitments from industry luminaries, KSL, Starwood Capital andWhitman Peterson among others."