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EL BULLI CHEF TO PUSH SPAIN
NEW TO PORTUGAL...
A number of new hotels look set to give
El Bulli’s controversial chef Ferran Adria is to Germany and London. A series of films have Portugal a luxury boost this year.
be the new face of Spanish tourism. been directed by Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia) The Yeatman (theyeatman.com) opens in
The international “I need Spain” campaign to promote Spain and Adria is one of the faces June and will be a luxury city retreat in the
featuring Adria has been simultaneously of the printed campaign. The chef visited Oporto region of northern Portugal. It aims to
launched in Singapore, New York, Sao Paulo, London to launch the campaign in his role as be one of the leading wine hotels in the world.
ambassador for the Spanish Tourism Board. It will have 12 suites and 70 bedrooms with
More than five million tourists are said to private terraces over the city and throughout
visit Spain every year attracted by its cuisine the hotel. There will also be a Vinotherapie
and wines alone. Spa by Caudalie.
Adria’s restaurant – famous for its The Oitavos (left)
molecular cuisine – on Spain’s Costa Brava has (theoitavos.com) is
been judged best in the world five times by a five-star hotel with
Restaurant magazine but is to close its doors 142 rooms in the
in 2012 and 2013, while Adria takes time out. Sintra Cascais
Spain is the latest country to use a famous National Park, 20
national as a tourism ambassador; see our minutes from
interview with Malaysia’s tourism ambassador, Lisbon on the Atlantic coast. Set to open in
Jimmy Choo, on p62. September, the contemporary designed hotel
will have a 10-room destination spa within the
Quinta da Marinha estate, which also houses
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an equestrian centre, health and racket club
COMO DOUBLE Como Hotels and Resorts is to open a second mountain retreat and the Oitavos Dunes golf course.
in Bhutan. Uma Punakha opens next year with 11 hilltop rooms and a Shambhala Retreat. In the hills of Monchique in the Algarve,
Acting as a satellite trekking lodge for Uma Paro, mountain biking and white water rafting the Longevity Wellness Resort (longevity-
will also be available (uma.como.bz). DUCASSE DINING Alain Ducasse is to open wellnessresort.com) is planning a soft
signature restaurant Mix on the Beach at the W Retreat Vieques Island, due to open in opening in April. The five-star hotel will have
April in Puerto Rico (whotels.com/vieques) – see p30 for our Caribbean feature. the first medical spa in Portugal.
DETOX DREAM Cyprus’s Anassa is launching a detox programme with The Organic Accommodation will be focused on 195
Pharamcy, offering a Green Coffee Treatment and Seaweed Detoxifying Scrub. The apartments sleeping up to four and a gourmet
hotel will also feature a new food bar (anassa.com.cy). FASHION FAVE The first restaurant will focus on wellness cuisine. The
Armani hotel opens in Dubai on April 22 with a party attended by Giorgio Armani (right), low-density build is set in a protected natural
who designed the hotel. Part of the new Burj Khalifa tower, the 160-room hotel has the reserve and is close to Caldas de Monchique,
first Armani Prive club in the Middle East, as well as an Armani Spa (armanihotels.com). known for its natural spring water.
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