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...Italy, France and Greece are also among the top five destinations for deploying capital this year, according to the 2024 survey of more than 60 investors including hotel owners, developers and private funds...
...Proprium Capital Partners, a real estate private equity group, has sold back its 35 per cent stake in Motel One to the company’s majority shareholder, One Hotels & Resorts, according to a statement on Tuesday...
...costs for new resorts....
...It also gives direct access to what has become the country’s most luxurious mountain destination: the closest five-star hotel is just 180m from the runway....
...Marriott-owned hotel group Ritz-Carlton launched its own luxury cruise liner last year. Luxury resort operators Aman Resorts and Four Seasons have also announced plans to launch their own cruise ships....
...Two resorts in Saudi Arabia, part of that country’s trillion-dollar-plus Vision 2030 development initiatives, will open by 2026, along with a Riyadh hotel....
...This is destination hospitality writ large (as hospitality often is in Dubai), with a phalanx of celebrity chefs – among whose ranks are Martín Berasategui and Paris’s favourite enfant terrible (and sometime...
...Choice Hotels International has scrapped its $9bn hostile takeover of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, ending an almost year-long pursuit of the rival hotel group whose board repeatedly criticised the deal....
...Weber hopes that in the hotel setting, they will similarly catch the glow from the mountains at dusk....
...Not that you need to be oeno-forward to enjoy the hotel: the accommodations range from suites in the main building to 30 one- and two-bedroom residences and a handful of family villas – all new builds with...
...Thomas Seitlinger bought the hotel, together with the nearby Chalet Hotel Senger, with bold plans for four-star refurbishments....
...In the very generously sized bedrooms, the design style is more muted and restful, and hotel beige makes its comeback....
...Its first incarnation opened in 1927 as one of the first luxury destinations in Vancouver, a young city out in Canada’s wild west....
...Hilton Hotels and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts were each down about 2.7 per cent....
...Not surprisingly, it bears little resemblance to that lifestyle destination, physically or culturally: down here you’re closer to Africa than you are to Rome, and there’s nary a giga-yacht to be spotted...
...“I think it’s why it got this reputation as a family-friendly destination, somewhere easy, that was good for beginners,” Anne Tellier, the resort’s press officer, told me over dinner shortly after I arrived...
...The Crieff Hydro, a sprawling spa resort and wedding venue, is there; bus tours en route to the Highlands occasionally stop in town for toilet breaks before pushing north....
...Crans-Montana will join an extensive portfolio that includes Vail Mountain in Colorado, Whistler in British Columbia and three resorts in Australia, together with the RockResorts hotel brand....
...Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire, which features three golf courses and a century-old hotel, was bought by the Trumps for a reported $60mn in 2014 but had never since made a profit....
...Last year Sprod and Bullock opened a clutch of tumbledown farm buildings as an eco-resort collection of suites and apartments....
...You’ll walk several miles a day, stopping at abbeys and rustic trattorie, staying at hotels along the lines of Borgo Pignano, and moving at humanity’s most timeless pace through eminently soothing landscapes...
...With sweeping views over St Ives Bay, the resort encompasses hotel rooms, apartments, self-catering properties, two restaurants, a golf course, indoor and outdoor pools and tennis courts....
...Mainly because the principality lacks the hotel beds and infrastructure to become a sun-sea-and-sangria pleasure zone in the manner of the Costas....
...Keith Rodgers, managing director at real estate company Taiga, says the market is also moving higher end, with a profusion of luxury hotels and resorts that are expected to open in the next three years....
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