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Welcome
All eyes are on London this summer, thanks to the Diamond Jubilee and the 2012 Olympics. And there will be no shortage of press coverage for the plethora of hotels opening in the capital in the run up to the games.
COVER STORY: Isay Weinfeld, one of Brazil’s most celebrated architects, has collaborated with hotelier Rogério Fasano and developer JHSF Group on Fasano Boa Vista, a sprawling country club an hour’s drive from São Paolo. Designs combine Brazilian woods with mid- ventury modern furnishings from the US and Scandinavia.
No doubt London’s hotels will enjoy a bumper year thanks to the combined effect of the ‘Jubilympics’, but its benefits for the wider UK economy are less certain. As one commentator recently said, the performance of UK regional hotels can be summarised thus: “London is a bubble, the rest is a struggle.” For our summer edition we are not reviewing the recent spate of London hotels, but looking further afield. Properties such as Square Nine in Belgrade show that development in Eastern Europe is starting to move in directions beyond the breakneck expansion of chains such as Hilton Garden Inn and Rezidor’s Park Inn, or the evermore blingtastic luxury on display in Moscow and Baku. It is fascinating that the designers of this hotel looked not to London, Paris or Dubai for their designers, but to Brazil, where Isay Weinfeld’s work for Grupo Fasano inspired them to hire his services. We also feature the latest property from Grupo Habita, who are on a roll following the launch of Downtown, their latest Mexico City hotel, and Endemico – an intriguing hospitality concept in Mexico’s little known wine country. And we return to a country only just recovering from the impact of its own major sporting event, with a review of the Queen Victoria in Cape Town, one of the first new hotels to open in he city since the goldrush in the the run up to the 2010 World Cup. Also in this issue you will find our latest supplement – ‘Sleeper China’. Following on from the success of Sleeper India last year, this time we take an in-depth look at the the hotel design and development market of this economic powerhouse, soon expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest economy. In the near future we intend to round out our series of supplements with a special edition for Russia and the CIS countries, followed by a look at Brazil as it gears up for a double whammy of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
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