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Kempinski expands into Azerbaijan with Baku hotel
Kempinski is to manage its first property in Azerbaijan – the 280-bedroom Kempinski Hotel Badamdar, in the capital of Baku. Facilities include a 3,500sq m (37,674sq
ſt) spa with 20 treatment rooms – six of which are doubles – and a beauty centre. Te product house is Elemental Herbology. A pool, relaxation area, sauna, hammam and fitness studio complete the offer. Te major five-star Badamdar Complex
also features a 5,000sq m (53,820sq ſt) enter- tainment and retail centre, a seasonal aqua park and 37 residential apartments. Kempinski Hotel Badamdar is the Swiss
group’s second management agreement in Baku, with the opening of Kempinski Crescent Baku planned for 2015.
Medical complex for US resort
A cutting-edge medical com- plex is to be built at The Greenbrier – a luxury, health- focused resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US. The Greenbrier Medical
Institute will be developed in phases in the 6,750-acre (2,732- hectare) grounds. Te initial stage, expected to
cost us$250m (€187m, £161m), will include a sports-medicine centre, a cosmetic surgery and lifestyle enhancement acad- emy, a sports performance and training facility and a boutique hotel. It will also comprise the relocation and expansion of the Greenbrier Clinic – a facility that’s been offering preventative healthcare programmes to the nation’s top executives since 1948. Te concept for complex has been created
by orthopedic surgeon Dr James Andrews and healthcare developer Jack T Diamond.
Greenbrier’s complex will attract top physicians and healthcare experts The resort, which boasts 710 bedrooms,
already has a 40,000sq ſt (3,716sq m) spa, a casino and three golf courses. At the centre of the resort is a sulphur water
spring which guests have sought out for medici- nal purposes for more than 200 years.
New look for France’s Sofitel Quiberon Te baths are a UNESCO World Heritage site
Budapest’s Rácz Hotel and Thermal Spa delayed
Te opening of the new €35.5m (us$47m, £31m) Rácz Hotel and Thermal Spa in Budapest, Hungary, has been pushed back “towards the beginning of 2012”. Initially due to open during the third
quarter of 2010, the 67-bedroom hotel is to feature an 8,000sq m (86,111sq ſt) thermal spa. Te spa will include refurbished parts of the Rácz Termal Bath – a UNESCO World Heritage site – that was once used by sultans and royalty. It will also feature a 19th century thermal (38˚C) pool located under a 9m dome that have been rebuilt accord- ing to the original designs by the famous Hungarian architect Miklós Ybl. Newer facilities comprise 13 dipping pools,
a rooſtop pool and 21 treatment rooms – with treatments and products by Hungarian thermal water skincare brand Omorovicza (see p46). Tere’s also a sauna world with Finnish, bio and aroma saunas, two steam- rooms and a salt and snow cave.
The 129-bedroom Sofitel Quiberon Thalassa Sea & Spa has been relaunched in north-west France, follow- ing a major refurbishment led by Parisian-based, hospitality architects Studio MHNA. Te complex specialises in
slimming breaks focused on healthy eating and the thalas- sotherapy institute – a flagship 5,000sq m (53,280sq ſt) facil- ity that has been completely redesigned. A standout fea- ture is a 25m, heated (29˚C) seawater pool that’s encased in glass and has ocean views. Tis is joined by a sauna, a eucalyptus-scented hammam, a gym and three exercise studios. Tere is also a brand new beauty centre, a
Te 25m seawater pool surrounded by glass is a standout feature
hair salon (with Leonor Greyl products) and six single and one double treatment room.
Product houses include SkinCeuticals, Carita, and Aquascience – a new in-house natural skincare line based on marine spring water. Talassa Sea & Spa is a part of the Accor hospitality group (see sb10/1 p26).
Ingo Schweder launches GOCO Hospitality
Ingo Schweder, the former CEO of spa man- agement group Spatality, has launched a new firm called GOCO Hospitality. GOCO has been created to offer a full range
of consulting and management services to the international spa and hotel industry under
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the banner ‘wellness meets wanderlust’. It is already working on a combination of projects including hotel spas, destination resorts and mixed-use developments around the world. Spatality, which has been running since 2001, no longer exists.
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