IHG plans to expand its Vietnamese portfolio from 16 to over 40 hotels, while Fairmont has opened in Hanoi. What these announcements truly reveal about the market.
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Hilton signs Maravé Manuel Antonio, the first LXR address in Costa Rica: 57 keys and 116 residences set across 16 hectares facing the Pacific, scheduled for 2029.
Accor inaugurates the Financial City Chengdu · MGallery Collection: 155 rooms designed by Stack Studio and a lychee orchard in the heart of the financial district.
Portrait Milano launches the Portrait Picnic: a breakfast set up under the trees of Parco Sempione, between Castello Sforzesco and Arco della Pace, with private transfer and flexible duration.
Japanese group Hotel Okura will open the Hotel Okura Thermal Resort & Spa Cappadocia in Mustafapasa in 2028, featuring a 3,500 m2 thermal center. A project initiated in 2015 and revived in 2026 by KK Universal.
Spain recorded €2.46 billion in hotel transactions in the first half of 2026 according to Colliers, driven by Maspalomas and Spanish family capital.
IHG Hotels & Resorts partners with GCP Hospitality to convert 14 hotels in Kyoto, representing 1,063 rooms: twelve Garner, one Holiday Inn Express, and no new builds.
The Reykjaböð geothermal lagoon opens on 1 September 2026 at the entrance to the Reykjadalur valley: ten Nordic thermal spaces, slot-based booking, 35 minutes from Reykjavik.
Two hotels are reopening in the same season in the Burgundy vineyards: 37 five-star keys in the vines of Pommard, and 49 rooms with a Caudalie spa under the vaults in Gilly-lès-Cîteaux.
From 14 December to 2 January, the Mexican resort bases its festive season on Wixárika cosmogony: a residency by Michelin-starred chef Justin Paul, the opening of Sun & Seed, and pre-Hispanic rituals at Apuane Spa.
The prestigious Singaporean brand Capella Hotels & Resorts announces its arrival in Dubai within the exclusive Dubai Peninsula project by 2029.
SBM entrusts the reins of its future alpine jewel, the Monte-Carlo One · Courchevel, to Madeleine Munier with an opening scheduled for Christmas 2027.
