The El Secreto boutique resort in Belize is set to officially open Oct. 1, the company has announced. The property on Belize’s Ambergris Caye is 11 miles north of San Pedro Town. It consists of 13 freestanding thatched-roof villas on the hotel’s private beachfront enclave.

Plans for the construction of a Park Hyatt St. Kitts on the island’s Southeast Peninsula will result in economic benefits to the people of the twin-island federation. Prime Minister Denzil L. Douglas said this area represents a unique and powerful territorial and psychological link between Nevis and St. Kitts.

According to the June 2012 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report, the Asia Pacific hotel development pipeline comprises 1,625 hotels totaling 374,604 rooms. Among the Chain Scale segments, the upscale segment reported the largest number of rooms in the total active pipeline with 25.7 percent and 96,274 rooms.