Hyatt and Portuguese developer Coporgest sign Park Hyatt Comporta, the brand's first address in Portugal. 58 rooms and suites, six two-bedroom villas and 22 residences on six hectares in Alentejo, less than an hour from Lisbon. Opening scheduled for 2029.
MYR Hotels is opening The Bank, its first five-star Grand Luxe hotel, in the former Banco de Valencia data centre, on Avenida del Puerto. It features 102 rooms, a twenty-metre vertical garden, and a rooftop pool. Around a hundred recruitments are underway for an autumn opening.
Fusion Hotel Group has inaugurated LÈGACY Hanoi, a 218-key five-star hotel in the Ngoc Ha district. Behind that figure lies just 85 hotel rooms, with the remaining 133 being serviced apartments. An onsen, a 24th-floor restaurant and vinyl records in the rooms.
Venice's first Dior Spa opened on 15 July 2026 at Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, on Giudecca: two levels designed by Peter Marino, five treatment rooms including a double suite, a boutique and three rituals created for the city of masks, Mascarade, Grand Bal and Théâtre Corporel.
NoMad Singapore, the first Asian address of Hilton's brand, opened its reservations on 16 September 2026 for a year-end opening: 173 keys in a landscaped tower by WOHA on Orchard Road, open-air reception on the fifth floor, NoMad Grill at the top and over 1,860 works by Singaporean artists.
Following a multi-million-dollar renovation, Mercure Clear Mountain reopens under Accor's Peppers brand, 35 minutes from Brisbane: 51 redesigned rooms, Glasshouse Restaurant, functions for up to 150 guests, and 20 hectares of bushland facing the Glass House Mountains. Moreton Bay's only five-star hotel.
IHCL has opened the Taj Tadoba Resort & Spa, Nagpur, on the edge of the Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve in Maharashtra: 35 private villas across seven hectares, Machan restaurant, Panorama Bar and J Wellness Circle spa, combining safari with Taj comfort.
Verkehrsbüro will take over operations of the Lindner Hotel Vienna Am Belvedere on 16 November 2026. After renovation, the 219-room hotel will reopen in mid-2028 under the Pullman brand, a first for Accor's brand in Austria.
Sixty-one rooms dressed by Martin Brudnizki, a pool vaulted with a fresco by Jacques Merle and the Ashkenazi table Boubale by Assaf Granit. We stayed at Le Grand Mazarin, the first city hotel from Maisons Pariente.
Officially inaugurated on 17 September 2026 in Tinley Manor, the Club Med South Africa Beach & Safari Resort combines a 411-key beach resort, the first Club Med surf school and the Vikela Safari Lodge within a private 18,000-hectare reserve. An investment of over 2 billion rands.
The Pavilions Hotels & Resorts is opening The First Cortina on 4 December 2026 on Corso Italia, replacing the former Hotel Splendid Venezia: 76 keys with balconies, a 140 sq m penthouse, a 1,000 sq m REVĪVŌ spa and the Zuma Japanese restaurant, already operating since December 2025.
Maximalist Scottish brand House of Gods is opening its first London hotel in Canary Wharf in late September 2026, featuring 79 rooms and suites and the 300-cover Sacred Garden rooftop, as part of a 6,000 m² leisure development backed by Imbiba. Meanwhile, Justine Conway has been promoted to group CEO.










































































































































