Accelerating its global portfolio growth, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announced this week’s opening of its first Westin hotel in South America -- The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center in Peru. Located in San Isidro, the financial and shopping hub of Lima, Peru, The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center features 301 rooms and the largest meeting and convention facilities in Peru.
Puerto Rico’s Verdanza Hotel is offering a summer promotion featuring daily breakfast and a fourth night free. The package also offers free accommodations for two children under age 16 sharing a room with adults, and free meals at the resort’s Eighty20 Bistro for children under age 5. Guests who book a four-person excursion with Castillo Tours pay for only three guests on selected tours.
Cancun’s First Villa Group Property to Conclude Second Phase of Construction in August, Expects Full Completion by December
Travel Agent chatted on Wednesday morning with Christian Rodriguez, director of sales and marketing for Villa de Palmar Cancun Mujeres Beach Resort, the Cancun area’s first ever Villa Group property.
Sandals and Beaches Resorts Chairman Gordon “Butch” Stewart and other Sandals representatives in New York Tuesday afternoon told Travel Agent’s Joe Pike the Caribbean all-inclusive giant is still actively pursuing a possible expansion into Mexico. “This is something we’ve actually been trying to do since ‘87 and ‘88,” Stewart told Pike, “but we are still hunting.”
Spanish hotel and resort company Sol Meliá announced that it is to open its first regional hotel in Dubai. The Meliá Dubai, a 164-room “urban resort,” will open on Oct. 12, 2011, to coincide with national day in Spain.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. opened its first all-inclusive resort — The Westin Resort & Spa, Playa Conchal in Costa Rica. The property, formerly known as the Paradisus Playa Conchal Resort, will begin renovation on its 406 suites and all public areas, which will be conducted in phases through December 2011.