Luxury Hotelier - September 2007 - (Page 60)

60| Development Conrad Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina Hilton Hotels Corporation, G&D Developers and Grupo Farallón announced the signing of the Conrad Buenos Aires, the luxury brand’s first management agreement in South America. Located in Puerto Madero, Argentina, the property will include a hotel and residences. Construction is planned to begin at the end of 2008 and completion is scheduled for late 2010. The 196-guestroom Conrad Buenos Aires and 350-unit +5411 Residences at the Conrad Buenos Aires will be developed by G&D Developers and Grupo Farallón as part of a mixed-use complex called +5411 Juana Manso Blvd. Hotel Monte Mulini Rovinj, Croatia Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo unveiled the designs for the Hotel Monte Mulini in Rovinj, a historic coastal city on the Istrian peninsula of Croatia on the Adriatic coast. The hotel will have 120 guestrooms, including 19 luxury suites. Groundbreaking is set for September, and the hotel is expected to open in the fall of 2008. The hotel will be owned and operated by Maistra d.d., a Croatian hotel company and a member of Adris Group. Briefly RockResorts adds St. Lucia resort RockResorts International added The Landings St. Lucia, A RockResort, to its management portfolio. Owned by The Landing Limited, a St. Lucianregistered development company, the resort has 231 luxury suites, spa facilities and restaurants.The Landings St. Lucia will open in four phases, with phase one scheduled to open in December. Regent plans Maldives property Regent Hotels & Resorts plans to open a new luxury resort on Maalefushi Island, Republic of Maldives, in 2008. The Regent Maldives will be a 50-villa luxury resort on the secluded coral island, just 50 minutes by seaplane from the capital city of Male. Regent Hotels & Resorts is part of Carlson Hotels Worldwide. The Regent Maldives will occupy the entire Maalefushi Island, an unspoiled 8-hectare (20-acre) island with lush tropical vegetation fringed with white sand beaches. Sun sets eyes on hotels in Egypt Sun International Hotels & Resorts plans for a November opening of 948 hotel guestrooms at Port Ghalib, the largest privately owned marina on Egypt’s Red Sea, developed by the M.A. Kharafi Group for a total investment of $1.2 billion [USD]. The Sun International Resort at Port Ghalib comprises three properties: the five-star hotel The Palace at Port Ghalib (309 guestrooms) and two five-star hotels, the Sahara Sun Oasis (300 guestrooms and suites) and the Sahara Sun Sands (347 guestrooms and suites). The Port Ghalib development covers 6,425 acres [2,570 hectares], stretching along 11 miles of virgin shoreline and beautiful coral reefs of the Red Sea. Shangri-La signs deal in Vienna Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts signed a long-term lease agreement with BAI Bauträger Austria Immobilien GmbH, the development and management arm of the Immobilien Holding Group, for the Shangri-La Hotel, Vienna, opening in late 2009 in Austria. The 207-room Shangri-La Hotel, Vienna will be located in the former Erste Bank headquarters in the city’s 1st district (Bezirk). BAI purchased the real estate with four historic buildings in late 2005 with the aim of developing a five-star hotel Guestrooms will average 45 square meters (484 square feet), and there will be three presidential suites. St. Regis Residences set to open in Singapore in 2008 The St. Regis Residences, Singapore, developed by City Developments Limited, one of the largest real-estate developers in Asia, and its joint venture partners, Hong Leong Holdings Limited and TID Pte Limited, will include a 299-guestroom St. Regis Hotel that will be managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Luxury Hotelier | September 2007 | www.LuxuryHotelier.com http://www.LuxuryHotelier.com

Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Luxury Hotelier - September 2007

EDITOR’S LETTER PUBLISHER’S LETTER INFORM NETWORK PERSONALITIES INSIGHT INSIGHT PROPERTIES ROPERTIES INSPIRE DELIVER PROTOCOLS INSIGHT INNOVATE DEVELOPMENT INDULGE INSIGHT CONNECT UPDATE DOSSIER

Luxury Hotelier - September 2007

For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.