news update June launch for London’s Café Royal
London’s historic Café Royal – once a restaurant and meeting place for legends such as Oscar Wilde – is to reopen as a luxury 159-bedroom hotel in June in time for the 2012 Olympics. Following a reported £90m
(us$145m, €112m) lease deal and extensive three-year refur- bishment, the Regent Street property will relaunch as a member of The Set – a new hotel collection established by property entrepreneurs Alfred and Georgi Akirov. T e hotel has been designed
DIARY DATES
15-17 MAY The Hotel Show Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE An event providing a networking and sourcing platform for up to 14,800 regional professionals. T is year’s event will also host the Middle East Spa Awards Tel: +971 4 438 0355
www.thehotelshow.com
London’s historic Café Royal is to include a 1,200sq m wellbeing centre
by London’s David Chipperfi eld Architects and Donald Insall Associates and new additions include the 1,200sq m (12,900sq ſt ) two- storey Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre day spa with its own dedicated entrance at street level. T e upper fl oor will feature a yoga studio and
gym. T e lower level, boasting the main facili- ties, will include a 19m pool and fi ve treatment
rooms – three with whirlpools – private and pub- lic hammams, a sauna and watsu pool. Dutch-based 4SeasonsSpa provided techni-
cal advice as well as wet spa facilities. It also worked on the spa at T e Set’s Conservatorium Hotel that opened in Amsterdam in December. Details:
www.4seasonsspa-pro.com
New ¤70m spa hotel planned for east Finland Exact details of the spa facility have not been
Work is expected to get underway later this year on a €70m (us$91m, £56m) spa hotel in Lappeenranta, eastern Finland. T e property will be owned in a joint venture
between two Finnish property investment com- panies – Ultivista and Conte Invest.
disclosed, but it is believed that there will be more than 15 treatment rooms, a range of indoor swimming pools, a sauna world and a relaxation area off ering views across Lake Saimaa. Details:
www.ultivista.fi
Final approval for Paris’ Hermitage Plaza
Foster + Partners has con- firmed that the Hermitage Plaza, a mixed-use devel- opment in Paris, France has been granted ‘permis de con- struire’ – the fi nal approval. The result of a close col-
laboration with city planning authorities EPAD, the City of Courbevoie, Atelier de Paysage Urbain and Département de Hauts-de-Seine, Hermitage Plaza is the first high-rise development in France. Considered a national proj-
17-19 MAY Sustainable Cosmetics Summit North America InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel, New York, USA T is summit will explore some of the major product sustainability issues facing the beauty/spa industries. Tel: +44 20 8567 0788
www.sustainablecosmeticssummit.com
3-6 JUNE
Global Spa & Wellness Summit Aspen Meadows Resort, Aspen, Colorado, USA Held in partnership with the Aspen Institute, the sixth, invitation-only GSWS is themed around Innovation through Imagination and will focus on the future of the global sector. Tel: +1 212 716 1199
www.globalspaandwellnesssummit.org
21 JUNE Forum HOTel and SPA T e Ritz Hotel, Paris, France Now in its fi ſt h year, this event is aimed at hotel and spa industry leaders. Tel: +33 1 43 21 05 69
www.forumhotspa.com
1-2 JULY VITASPA Spa Expo and Medical Spa Conference Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina T e offi cial World Congress Spa Society event in Central and South America. Tel: +54 11 4468 0879
www.vitaspaestetica.com
A panoramic spa will be among two wellness centres at Hermitage Plaza
ect, it is intended to regenerate the area east of La Défense business district with a sustainable, high-density community. Hermitage Plaza incorporates two 320m
(1,050ſt )-high buildings. T e twin towers will take the form of interlocking triangles and will enclose a large public piazza.
T ere will be 538 apartments, two spa cen-
tres – including a panoramic spa – a luxury hotel and offi ce space. For more information on Hermitage Plaza
and other Parisian hotel and spa projects, see sb11/3 p64. Details:
www.hermitage.fr
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8-9 JULY Les Nouvelles Esthetiques Spa Conference Monte Casino Ballroom, Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa T e conference off ers a top educational programme for spa, wellness and hospitality professionals in South Africa. Tel: +27 11 447 9959
www.lesnouvellesblog.co.za
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