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Hotel Missoni will open its first resort in Kuwait in late September. The Kuwait opening follows the brand launch in Edinburgh in 2009.

Hotel Missoni Kuwait’s debut will be followed by openings in South Africa (2011), Brazil (2012) and Oman (2012).

Hotel Missoni Kuwait will feature a swimming pool with mosaic floor in a signature Missoni stripe; 13,000-square-foot Six Senses Spa; Rosita Missoni’s family recipes at Cucina restaurant; 18th floor bar with Arabian Sea views; and access to a mixed-use luxury retail development, which will include a Missoni boutique.

Hotel Missoni Kuwait combines the style of the Italian fashion and interiors house with the expertise of The Rezidor Hotel Group.

The property is centrally located close to the main shopping area of Kuwait City, overlooking the Arabian Sea.

It is part of a new development that also houses a large shopping mall, apartments and offices.

Designed by Creative Director Rosita Missoni, one of the Missoni label’s original co-founders, the interiors of Hotel Missoni are bold, richly patterned and colorful. Each Hotel Missoni is reflective of its location.

In Kuwait, Rosita was inspired by the brilliant blues and sparkling beaches of the Arabian Sea. Interiors at Hotel Missoni Kuwait have a palette of gold, turquoise and beige combined with unmistakable Missoni prints. The property’s 18 floors feature design pieces such as Hans J Wegner’s Wishbone Chair. The lobby of Hotel Missoni Kuwait City will include large mosaic urns, a Hotel Missoni trademark. Every Hotel Missoni will feature these oversized urns decorated in the color scheme of the individual property.

Hotel Missoni Kuwait offers 169 rooms and suites, all of which have sea views. The 106 rooms continue the palette of gold, turquoise and beige and are accented with bold patterns. Combining form and function, accommodations have been carefully designed to meet the needs of today’s modern travelers with linens from the Missoni Home range. Each guest room has an in-suite bathroom featuring either a generous bath or a shower with a bench seat, rain shower and handheld shower.

Custom-scented Missoni bath amenities were specially created for Hotel Missoni Kuwait. There will be 63 suites, ranging from 805 square feet to the 2,260-square-foot Presidential Suite with a 970-square-foot outdoor terrace.

Guest room amenities include a 32-inch Bang & Olufsen LCD TV; a mirror TV in the bathroom; air conditioning; AV guest connection outlet; bathroom amenities scented with a Missoni fragrance; bathrobe and slippers, created exclusively by Missoni; complimentary high-speed wireless Internet; fully stocked mini bar; hair dryer; Illy coffee machine; iron and ironing board available on request; on-demand films; personal safe; three telephones; guest services; 24-hour room service; concierge; fitness area, located on the second floor; laundry/valet service, including express ironing.

For more information, call (011) 965 9999 1357, email

info.Kuwait@hotelmissoni.com  

or visit www.hotelmissoni.com

Throw away those tennis rackets ! Ramblers Worldwide Holidays, the UK’s leading guided walks specialist operator is offering an 8 day showshoeing tour of the Austrian Alps using modern, high tec, light snowshoes.

The base for this holiday is the village of Bach situated in a quiet valley in the northern Tirol – with the Lechtal Alps to the south and the Allgäu Alps to the north.

The surrounding peaks rise to well over 2,500 M.

The steep slopes are unsuitable for downhill skiing, but many of the side valleys are perfect for snowshoeing.

The hotel manager is an experienced and qualified snowshoe walking leader and will lead two of the scheduled walks.

As well as all local transport being included, there is also a fondue lunch on one of the days in a private mountain hut.

Price £819 per person includes return flights, transfers, half-board accommodation (plus one fondue lunch in private mountain hut) and the services of a dedicated tour leader.

www.RamblersHolidays.co.uk

01707 33 11 33

The capital of the Highlands has welcomed a new star to the accommodation scene. Officially opened on Friday 4th June, The Kingsclub and Spa is set within the manicured lawns of the highly regarded Kingsmills Hotel, just minutes from the centre of Inverness.

The team behind The Kingsclub and Spa is the same highly respected team that has established the Kingsmills Hotel, a four star hotel with an enviable reputation for its friendliness, service and quality.

Located in the carefully kept and lush grounds of the much loved and acclaimed Kingsmills Hotel, the addition of The Kingsclub and Spa now creates The Collection by Kingsmills.

The Kingsclub and Spa has carried out extensive research regarding what visitors really need and want from a Spa hotel. Designed to provide a chic and contemporary hotel choice for discerning travellers to Inverness, this latest addition to the Highland accommodation scene focuses on relaxation, revitalization and calm.

The addition of a day spa within the hotel is unique to Inverness. Unlike any other hotel in the Highland capital, the spa offers massage suites, a unique double treatment room perfect for sharing your spa experience with a close friend or loved one, a relaxation area and a nail salon.

The team of highly experienced staff, who have previously worked within some of the best spas in Scotland including Skibo Castle and Gleneagles Hotel, offer some of the most luxurious treatments available. The treatments, which range from deep tissue and sports massages to specialist treatments such as reflexology, aromatherapy or hot stone massage, combine advanced dermatological innovation with completely natural ingredients.

In addition to the spa, the newest hotel to hit the Highlands boasts contemporary bedrooms which reflect the style that is integral to every design element at the hotel.

Air conditioning is standard across all bedrooms and many rooms come with individual balconies or private gardens.

Other hotel facilities include a mezzanine coffee lounge, golf course views, business centre and a wining and dining lounge.

In the club spirit, the hotel bar and restaurant are exclusive to guests of The Kingsclub and Spa. Impeccable service, mouth watering menus, fresh locally sourced ingredients and an atmosphere of informal intimacy reflect the Kingsclub & Spa philosophy.

Craig Ewan, General Manager of the Kingsmills Hotel and Kingsclub and Spa, comments, “The Kingsclub and Spa has a contemporary feel and will retain the same values of the Kingsmills Hotel. It will maintain the warm, welcoming and customer focussed values of the Kingsmills whilst simultaneously introducing the essentials of modern day comfort – making it the ideal place to unwind after a day exploring this beautiful and unique part of Scotland.”

The Kingsclub and Spa benefits from sharing facilities with the Kingsmills Hotel.

Shared facilities include the swimming pool, leisure club, restaurants and function rooms.

Enjoying a unique location on the leafy outskirts of Inverness and set within four acres of carefully kept gardens, The Kingsclub and Spa is proud of its ‘green space’.

Balconies and private gardens overlook the prestigious Inverness Golf Course and are the perfect place to indulge in a late summer sunset.

Light and space inform every architectural detail from the staircases to the huge glass windows with views over acres of greenery.

Not only is the hotel an enticing place to stay, but on the hotel’s doorstep is a wealth of things to see and do including championship golf, Loch Ness, the Cairngorms National Park as well as ancestry, culture, gardens, history, castles, quality attractions and endless outdoor activities, walking, cycling, water sports and fishing.

For further information please visit

www.kingsclubinverness.com

Palma de Mallorca, 7 June 2010.- Sol Meliá has agreed to add its first hotel in the United Arab Emirates to its hotel portfolio.

The Meliá Dubai is a luxury hotel due to open at the beginning of next year and will become the first hotel run by a Spanish hotel group in the Middle East, a growing market for both domestic tourism and business travel.

The newly-built, 5 star Meliá Dubai will be operated under a management agreement in Al Raffa, Bur Dubai, opposite Port Rashid and very near the financial and cultural heart of Dubai, Heritage Villa, focus of the main tourism activity in the city.

The hotel will provide 167 rooms, an haute cuisine restaurant, Tapas Gastro Bar, 24-hour Coffee Shop, Euro-Asian fusion restaurant, sky bar, disco bar, energy bar, smoking lounge, business centre, 300 m2 for meetings and events, The Level service and spa, amongst others.

Meliá Dubai will enjoy all of the services and facilities expected of the most international of the Sol Meliá hotel brands and will become a point of reference for the Spanish hotel industry in the region.

Dubai is the second most important city in the United Arab Emirates, and is now the starting point for the first Spanish hotel group to operate in the Middle East, “an emerging destination which confirms the company growth aspirations in high potential, dynamic markets”, according to Gabriel Escarrer, Chief Executive Officer of Sol Meliá.

The announcement of the addition of the Meliá Dubai confirms the growth and geographical diversification strategy of the company, involving new openings in destinations such as China, Colombia, Cabo Verde or Crete, and the renovation, improvement and rejuvenation of the hotel portfolio.

Each spring, the open air bars along the Danube Canal swing into action. This year brings some new arrivals.

For many years Vienna’s Danube Canal has been one of the city’s most popular places to go out thanks to bars such as Summerstage (www.summerstage.at ), Strandbar Herrmann (www.strandbar-herrmann.at ) and Adria Wien (www.adriawien.at ).

The Danube Canal is central, and as cars are banned from its banks, visitors can enjoy the views of the water in peace and quiet.

While some of the clubs, bars, and restaurants are only open during the warmer months of the year (usually around May to late September), others never close such as the internationally famous Flex (www.flex.at ) , or Badeschiff Wien (www.badeschiff.at).

A new restaurant is set to open next to Schwedenplatz at the Wien City boat terminal, where pleasure cruisers and the high speed catamarans that shuttle between Vienna and Bratislava land.

Open year round, Motto am Fluss features a restaurant, bar with lounge and café complete with sun deck across two floors of the terminal, part of which protrudes over the water.

The food will be contemporary with its roots in traditional dishes, and the portions generous.

Tel Aviv Beach will reopen in summer on the opposite side of the canal a short distance upstream from the terminal.

This outdoor location will be bigger than ever in 2010 after a highly successful season last year.

The sandy beach with deckchairs will be complemented by a rooftop terrace and a greater choice of food and drink from Naschmarkt restaurateur Haya Molcho.

For more information, visit www.motto.at or www.telavivbeach.at

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc., in partnership with Temes S.A., will open The Romanos, a Luxury Collection Resort in Costa Navarino, Greece.

Located amidst olive groves in the Messinia region on Greece’s southwest Peloponnese coast, the Romanos Resort is the first hotel to open in the new luxury destination of Costa Navarino.

The Romanos will be part of a 130-hectare, mixed-use beachfront development called Navarino Dunes, the first of four major developments in Costa Navarino. Navarino Dunes will include the first signature golf course in Greece designed by Bernhard Langer in cooperation with European Golf Design, a large spa, various restaurants, lounge areas, retail and entertainment options offering families, global travelers and meeting and incentive groups alike, escape and indulgence on the magnificent Mediterranean coast.

The Romanos joins The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, an ensemble of more than 70 hotels and resorts across the globe.

The award-winning hotels that make up The Luxury Collection include Hotel Danieli, Venice; Grande Bretagne, Athens; Marques de Riscal, Elciego, Spain; The Laguna Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali; Patios de Cafayate, Argentina; SLS at Beverly Hills; and The Phoenician, Scottsdale.

The Romanos features 321 rooms and suites, including 121 with individual infinity pools. Almost all rooms offer furnished terraces with views of the Mediterranean. Guests staying in the suites will have access to the resort’s butler service.

The resort’s beachfront Royal Villa Koroni features a private infinity pool, a secluded barbeque area, a spa treatment suite with steam room, private fitness facilities and an elevator. Guests of the Royal Villa Koroni will also benefit from a 24-hour dedicated butler service.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts currently operates eight luxury hotels and resorts in Greece under the company’s Luxury Collection, Westin and Sheraton brands.

These include the Arion Resort & Spa, Astir Palace, the Hotel Grande Bretagne and The Westin Athens Astir Palace Beach Resort in Athens, Mystique and Vedema Resorts in Santorini, Blue Palace Resort & Spa on the island of Crete, the newly opened Sheraton Resort in Rhodes and Santa Marina Resort & Villas in Mykonos.

For more information, visit www.luxurycollection.com , www.costanavarino.com  or www.starwoodhotels.com

Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts expanded their Kids Room idea.

The international hotel chain now tailors the rooms to three different age groups, allowing them to satisfy the needs of babies, small children and teenagers more effectively.

The service ranges from cuddly toys and children’s menus to Nintendo Wiis and iPod docking stations.

For guests under 5, the rooms have a crib or baby’s bed, a stroller, soft toys and baby seat, plus brightly colored bed linen, a children’s menu, portable baby monitor, books and socket covers.

The slightly older children of between 6 and 12 can also expect family board games, hot chocolate, a mini bar selection of healthy drinks and snacks, age-appropriate DVDs and comics to read.

As young people of 13 to 18 want to pursue their own interests on holiday and enjoy their free time, Swissôtels around the world offer modern electronic entertainment equipment, including Nintendo Wii and an iPod docking station as well as magazines, games such as Trivial Pursuit or Scotland Yard and a selection of exciting DVDs.

This allows young people to spend their free time sensibly without being watched over by their parents.

Most Kids Rooms at Swissôtel have a direct connecting door to the parents’ room or are right next door and a babysitting service can be arranged for upon request.

The Swissôtel Kids Room guarantees that not only kids enjoy themselves, but that parents can al so relax and enjoy their stay.

For more information, visit www.swissotel.com

The Spa by ESPA at The Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland received two accolades from U.K. Zest Magazine’s inaugural annual readers’ Spa Awards in the following categories:

Best for Outdoor Activity Lovers and Overall Winner of 2010. Zest Magazine is the U.K.’s top women’s health publication offering tips on fitness, nutrition, beauty and more.

The Spa Awards were voted by a panel of judges and readers. Over 4,000 reader votes were received.

The Spa by ESPA at Gleneagles features 20 treatment rooms (many with private bathrooms), a vitality pool lit by fiber optics, and an extensive menu of the latest ESPA therapeutic treatments.

Gleneagles’ signature treatment, The Source, uses local ingredients from the fresh waters and hills of Perthshire.

A revitalizing and rebalancing holistic experience, the treatment begins with a calming footbath in which local, river-washed stones are used to stimulate reflex points on the feet.

A full-body exfoliation follows, preparing the body for a deeper level of relaxation.

Tired muscles are then warmed using a muslin-wrapped herbal poultice made of lavender, rosemary, oats and elderflower gathered from the surrounding countryside.

The ritual continues with a purifying body massage, and concludes with a tension relieving scalp massage.

A member of Virtuoso, The Leading Hotels of the World, American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts and Connoisseurs Scotland, Gleneagles is set in 850 acres in Perthshire, Scotland. Gleneagles is located one hour’s drive from Glasgow or Edinburgh, both of which are easily accessible with direct flights from various U.S. gateways.

For more information, call 866-463-8734 or visit www.gleneagles.com

The Algarve has seven new hotels just opened or opening including the Vale D’Oliveiras Quinta Resort & SPA (Lagoa), which opened in March;

the Real Marina Hotel & Spa (Olhão), which opened in May;

the Longevity Wellness Resort (Monchique), which opened in March;

the Real Marina Residence (Olhão), which is opening in June; the Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel (Sagres), which opened in April;

the Água Hotels Vale da Lapa (Carvoeiro), which opened in April;

and the Yellow Lagos Meia Praia (Lagos), which is opening in June.

For more information, visit www.visitportugal.com

Special Hotels of the World completed renovation of one of its member hotels, the Grand Hotel Suisse-Majestic in Montreux, Switzerland following nine months of extensive redevelopment.

After an investment of 20 million Swiss francs ($17.3 million), Grand Hotel Suisse-Majestic has been completely transformed with a new façade, a new roof, a new lake-view restaurant called “45” with panoramic terrace, 156 new rooms, a new lobby and a new bar.

All the hotel’s meeting rooms have also been refurbished. Over the coming months, a fitness center and mini spa will also be completed.

For more information, call 011-44-020-7380-3658 or visit www.shotw.com  or www.ghotw.com/grand-hotel-suisse-majestic