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Showing posts with label Hotels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hotels. Show all posts
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Spain’s hotels are Europe’s most popular.
Spain is still Europe’s most popular place to stay, according to figures released February 28 by the European Union.
In total, 268 million nights were spent in Spain’s hotels by travelers last year, a rise of 6.4 percent on 2009′s figures.
The second most popular place to lay your head was Italy with 245 million nights spent in 2010, although this was a slight fall on 2009′s figures.
Germany took third place, with 229 million nights, France fourth with 196 million and the United Kingdom fifth with 166 million.
These five countries combined accounted for a whopping 70 percent of the total hotel nights spent in the European Union’s 27 member nations last year (a total of 1.6 billion), although some countries showed considerable surges in popularity.
Estonia, for instance, saw a 16.9 percent rise in stays, Denmark was up 14.9 percent and the Netherlands rose 13.4 percent.
Eurostat’s figures include both domestic and foreign travelers on both leisure and business — strip out domestic travelers to give a true value of international interest and the most popular nations become Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and fifth place for Austria.
Europe’s hotel hotspots
countries ranked by total number of nights spent
countries ranked by total number of nights spent
1. Spain
2. Italy
3. Germany
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. Austria
7. Greece
8. Portugal
9. Switzerland
10. The Netherlands
Sources: AFPrelaxnews – Eurostat
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Hotel Indigo coming to Phuket, Thailand, in 2014.
International hotel chain InterContinental has chosen Phuket, Thailand to launch as the first resort destination for its Hotel Indigo chain.
Hotel Indigo, a ’boutique’ style brand which aims for individuality with its properties, operates 38 hotels around the world, with the majority in big cities.
The February 24 announcement of its entry into Phuket, one of Thailand’s most popular destinations for foreign tourists, is a clear sign that it believes it can appeal to all vacationers, not just those on a city break.
The Hotel Indigo Phuket Naithon Beach Resort is slated to open in 2014, offering 120 rooms and 15 villas and classic resort facilities such as an all-day restaurant and bar and swimming pool.
Naithon beach, situated in the eastern shore of Phuket, is known among backpackers as one of the quietest and most unspoiled beaches on the island and an excellent area for diving.
It has already caught the attention of hotel developers, with Accor planning a 2011 opening for the 260-room Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach, which will offer multiple restaurants and bars as well as a spa and two pools.
Luxury hotel chain Banyan Tree announced earlier this month that it would also be opening a new Phuket property later this year, under its sister brand Angsana.
The Angsana Laguna Phuket will be created from the current Sheraton Grande, which is set to close in June, with the help of a $30 million refurbishment to transform it into a stylish resort aimed at young, affluent travelers.
When complete, it will offer 384 rooms, a spa, a retail gallery and new features such as a treehouse-inspired kids club and a new rice bar.
Guests will be able to book rooms from July 1, with the property expected to reopen December 1.
Source: AFPrelaxnews
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents Morgans Hotel Group Unveil the Mondrian SoHo.
Morgans selected Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, the visionary behind the re-imagined Mondrian Los Angeles, to create Mondrian SoHo in collaboration with the company’s renowned in-house design team.
Noriega-Ortiz’s design for the hotel draws inspiration from Jean Coucteau’s 1946 romantic French fantasy film “La Belle et la Bête.”
For reservations or more information, visit www.mondriansoho.com.
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The luxury Lifestyle blog (the home of luxury Lifestyle) presents High-end hotelier Autograph lands in Europe.
Marriott‘s new Autograph brand is to appear in Europe for the first time within months, the firm said March 7.
Autograph, an upscale brand which brings together independent hotels and resorts under the Marriott name, will appear first in Spain, where the company plans to add four properties currently owned by AC Hotels into the exclusive group.
The hotels include the historic AC Santo Mauro and AC Palacio del Retiro buildings in Madrid, which have been converted from houses into five-star properties.
The 75-room AC Palacio de Santa Paula, a former convent in Granada, will also join the collection, as well as the AC Baqueira Hotel & Spa, a ski resort in the Pyrenees.
The debut of Marriott’s new brand in Spain opens a new front against the country’s homegrown hotel chains NH Hoteles and the Paradores group, a state-run enterprise which operates similar luxury properties in converted historic buildings — Marriott is already rebranding AC properties to become ‘AC by Marriott’.
The Autograph chain was created last year with a selection of seven properties and now consists of 14 properties, all in the US, although it expects to operate 40 by the end of this year, operating the same booking and hotel points system as other Marriott brands such as JW Marriott, Renaissance and Courtyard.
It is Marriott’s answer to Starwood‘s Luxury Collection, a string of top-end properties in 30 countries, originally founded in 1906 in Europe.
In January Starwood announced that the 300-room Liberty Hotel in Boston, a US National Historic Landmark built in 1851, as the 100th property under its Luxury Collection and St Regis premium brands.
Source: AFPrelaxnews
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