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Four Seasons Florence to operate the world's first Palace Residence Club 
New form of "Residential Living"
2.5.2008

 

Florence. Italian 'grandezza' is guaranteed. The world's first Palace Residence Club is to be Florence's Palazzo Tornabuoni, one of Italy's most significant and impressive renaissance palaces. The Medicis lived there and in the Sala delle Muse "Dafne", the world's first opera, was first performed in 1594. Now, a new trend has brought the Sleeping Beauty back into the world of the awake: "Residential Living" under the fractional ownership principle. Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, a company with worldwide experience, now ventures into new territory in Italy: a club model. The part owners of the 36 noble residences also profit from proximity to the Four Seasons Hotel Florence due to open in July 2008.

The end for Botta in St. Moritz - Success with Nouvel & Herzog de Meuron
Ordeal for design architecture
18.4.2008

Lucerne. The plans for a 77-metre tall hotel including holiday apartments designed by Ticino’s top-class architect Mario Botta and located at Celerina near St. Moritz in Upper Engadin/Switzerland have been closed. This building would even have towered above the church of the small town. The man celebrated by Switzerland for the spa of the Tschuggen Grand Hotel Arosa worth 35 million Swiss francs now took an "open slap", as the Swiss newspaper "Suedostschweiz" put it. Is the decision against Botta a signal against the wave of architectural superlatives in Switzerland? At the same time in Lucerne, copper continues to drip from the design roof of the culture and congress centre polluting the lake.

Moevenpick in Hamburg's water tower celebrated MIPIM Award
Genuinely refurbished
18.4.2008

Hamburg. The squeaking mice in the rotting ruin of Hamburg's water tower fell silent just as the loud protests of the independent scene from the neighbourhood did. Even the official sceptics stopped frowning. The Moevenpick Hotel Hamburg has been accepted ten months after its opening. The 226-room hotel located in a historical industrial memorial in Hamburg went through prejudices, construction disasters and public resistance like hardly any hotel before. At the MIPIM real estate fair in Cannes this March, the project was awarded the coveted industrial award in the "hotels and tourism resorts" category. One more reason to celebrate in Hamburg last Friday - taking a relaxed look back on pretty tense times.

RCI: Timeshare project in Oman
18.4.2008

Oman. Vacation exchange company RCI has unveiled a new timeshare project in Oman. The company has announced an agreement with Allied Oman, the leisure real estate enterprise, to affiliate the timeshare project at the Barka Resort.

Hapimag with positive figures
4.4.2008

Baar. Hapimag, one of the leading European specialist for holiday right of residence products, continued its successful development through 2007. Sales revenues were boosted by 7 per cent over the previous year's level, to 246.1 million CHF. Consolidated income also increased, by roughly 30 per cent, to 2.9 million CHF. These figures confirm the positive trend of the past two years.

Austrian hotelier pulls out of Croatia
21.3.2008

Zell am See. After five years, the Austrian private hotelier Dr. Wilfried Holleis has given up on plans for the hotel complex Katarineninsel in Rovinj, Croatia. The reason for the decision was the uncertain legal situation prevalent in the Balkan state.

WestFonds to sell valuable hotel portfolio
7.3.2008

Berlin. WestFonds Immobilien-Anlagegesellschaft mbH in Duesseldorf will shortly sell a valuable international portfolio consisting of eight pieces of hotel real estate. The portfolio value is said to be worth several hundreds of millions.

IHIF announces "Deals of the Year"
29.2.2008

Berlin. Hosts of the 11th International Hotel Investment Forum have announced the finalists for the prestigious Deal of the Year Awards.  The Deal of the Year Awards will be presented 5 March 2008 at the InterContinental Hotel in Berlin, Germany, in the categories of Single Asset, New Development, and Portfolio. 

Architectural trends in spas - Opinions from the Monaco Spa Event
Unrest in the relaxation room
22.2.2008

Monte Carlo. Is the most successful spa white and cool in its architectural style, or is it cosy and traditional? Four architects from four different countries speaking at the Monaco Spa Event in January gave very different opinions indeed. The hotelier profits from the description of trends outlined by the experts at such discussions: Currently, the relaxation room is under the spotlight.

Bavaria: Mega day spa with Arabic investors 
1.2.2008

Geretsried. In two years' time, the fairytale of 1001 nights will soon be open to visitors south of Munich, in Geretsried, Bavaria. There, the world's biggest day spa is currently in construction, the "Spa Aladin". By early 2010, an oriental wellness oasis stretching over 22,000 sq m will come into being; an attraction predicted to entice 600,000 visitors per year. An operator is still being sought for the accompanying hotel. The cost of the entire project runs to some 60 million Euros with finance coming from a Saudi Arabian investor.

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