Turks and Caicos’ Grace Bay Club Unveils New Infinity Pool, Bar
The Turks and Caicos’ Grace Bay Club is completing a $1 million renovation with the installation of an adults-only, glass-edge, infinity pool and bar. The new pool will be anchored by a 12-foot glass wall facing Grace Bay, creating an aquarium-type experience.
IHG, whose roots in the Colombian hotel market stretch almost six decades, has signed a 15-year management agreement for a new-build, full-service Holiday Inn in Cartagena, Colombia. The Holiday Inn Cartagena, scheduled to open in June 2011, will be IHG’s seventh property in Colombia, and the 46th Holiday Inn brand property within the company’s Latin America & Caribbean region (38 open, eight under construction). IHG currently has two Holiday Inn hotels in Colombia: the Holiday Inn Express Bogota and the Holiday Inn Express Medellin.
With an emotive gala, Hilton Buenos Aires celebrated ten years of success in Argentina. The celebration, which took place last Thursday in the hotel’s iconic lobby, was honored with the presence of main clients, local government representatives, strategic partners, suppliers and media. Attendees were able to enjoy a prime selection of gourmet delicacies, representing Hilton Buenos Aires culinary offerings, and an aerial acrobatic performance.
Barceló Hotels & Resorts in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, have packed their fall calendars full of exciting activities for guests of all ages. The fall celebration begins Oct. 14, 2010 at Barceló Punta Cana Resort’s Oktoberfest and lasts through Nov. 27, 2010 when Barceló Punta Cana hosts International Single Week.
Sandals Resorts International has partnered with the Ministries of Tourism and Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to offer the recently rescued Chilean miners, rescue workers and their spouses a relaxing Jamaican vacation. Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett, made the announcement at a press conference in Montego Bay yesterday as he updated the media on the island’s readiness for Caribbean Marketplace to be held January 16-18, next year, at the newly built Montego Bay Convention Center.
Spanish hotel and resort operator Sol Meliá will open the ME London as the sixth “experience-based,” personality hotel to the ME Hotels brand. Formerly the site of the City Bank building, ME London will be designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster, making the hotel an icon of the London hotel industry for both business and leisure travelers. The property’s announcement comes on the heels of ME Hotel’s May 2010 groundbreaking of ME Vienna.