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Faena Group and Accor embark on global venture to expand the Faena brand worldwide
Alan Faena and Len Blavatnik of Faena Group, together with Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and CEO of Accor, today announced the launch of a global strategic partnership focused on expanding the Faena brand around the globe.
Faena, one of the world's most impactful brands in the luxury lifestyle and hospitality industry, and Accor, a world-leading hospitality group with an unparalleled brand portfolio and more than 5,000 properties across 110 countries, have partnered to expand the Faena brand to strategic destinations worldwide.
Alan Faena will work in partnership with Accor to break new ground, developing Faena Districts in select global destinations. This new venture will strengthen Faena's personal and distinctive approach and will become a catalyst for exponential growth. Dubai is slated to be the first international destination.
The new venture will manage Faena Buenos Aires and Faena District Miami Beach, which was named as the #1 hotel in Miami, #2 hotel in the wider United States and twelfth highest-ranked property in the entire world by readers of Condé Nast Traveler in their 2020 Readers' Choice Awards, as well as all future projects created in collaboration together. This groundbreaking endeavor will result in pioneering businesses which specialize in the development of one-of-a-kind, socially responsible, holistic environments, anchored in cultural experiences ranging from residences and hotels, art and cultural spaces.
Accor - World-leading hotel group in hospitality
Wishing you a Happy Lunar New Year, the Year of the Ox
Virginia Offers Ideal Wellness Retreats to Speed Healing of the Body and Soul
As we start the new year, hopeful travelers are eager to work wellness into their future travel plans. The pandemic has made us increasingly conscious of personal health and fitness, with surveys showing a rising interest in immunity boosting retreats and socially distanced wellness trips. Rural luxury also tops lists of 2021 travel trends, with travelers looking to avoid crowds and connect with nature, while focusing on the need for mental and physical pampering. Enter Virginia, with an array of wellness retreats and pastoral luxury resorts ideal for travelers seeking an off-the-beaten-path destination to heal their bodies, minds and souls.
Eupepsia Wellness Resort, located in the heart of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, provides an immersive approach to wellness with real-time curation for a truly transformative experience. Located on 256 rural acres and founded on the science and philosophy of Ayurveda, the resort's integrated programs center around sound sleep, clean 'farm-to-table' eating, and progressive health, fitness and yoga therapies. With the help of a team of specialists, the resort customizes its wellness retreats to each guest's bio-individuality, health condition and personal goals. From de-stress, detox, weight loss and full rejuvenation to advanced healing, there is a program for everyone.
A vacation to Virginia is all about discovering what you love. Learn more about the topics above or plan your travels at www.Virginia.org.
Virginia is for Lovers / Visit Virginia channels: Twitter: @VisitVirginia / Facebook: /VisitVirginia
Approaching February
The Travel Corporation Sees Emerging Trend of Solo Travellers First to Resume Travel
The Travel Corporation (TTC) has seen an uptick in travel bookings by solo travellers for 2021, and has decided to highlight its special deals ranging from single supplement discounts to 100% waiver of Single Supplement fees. The attractive savings are offered across selected 2021 itineraries for its guided holiday brands Trafalgar and Insight Vacations and its luxury river cruise brand Uniworld.
Recognizing the need to adapt quickly in a post-COVID-19 world as holiday travel gradually resumes, TTC has also unveiled a new well-being video to help promote further confidence and provide peace-of-mind for guests booking guided holidays with Trafalgar and Insight Vacations, ensuring travellers know that there is a new well-being director who will provide enhanced support to ensure adherence to all hygiene standards and will update them with the latest travel protocols guidelines.
TTC's Well-being Directors are expertly trained in a three-step approach:
Step 1: Always-on personal support and 24/7 assistance.
Step 2: Supplier partner engagement and compliance.
Step 3: Daily monitoring of distancing and hygiene standards.
To know more about TTC's various holidays and more ways to save, please visit: www.ttc.com or call TTC's travel advisors at +65 6922 595.
New Beginnings
Taste Summer in the Tropics
You can't go past a cold beer and a bucket of prawns in summer, but have you tried a Cassowary Cocktail or a Tiger Prawn Schnitzel with pineapple and persimmon?
Summer is unfolding in Cairns & Great Barrier Reef when warm rain refreshes the landscape overnight and brings seasonal experiences unique to summer in the tropics. This means that luscious mangoes, unique native ingredients and signature seafood dishes are taking centre stage on menus across the region.
For a truly local drink, you can't go past the Cassowary Cocktail from Ochre Restaurant, located on the waterfront in Cairns. As colourful as its namesake, the Cassowary Cocktail's rich red comes from the cassowary's favourite food – local Davidson plum, which is blended with Hunter Distillery ginger liqueur, local finger lime and Smirnoff vodka.
Savour the taste of the native plum a little longer by choosing Ochre Restaurant's Twice Cooked Pork Belly served with Davidson plum jam, Queensland scallops and cauliflower puree.
At Palm Cove, Nu Nu chef Nick Holloway is pairing tiger prawns fresh from the Gulf of Carpentaria with Mareeba pineapple and persimmons from Tolga. The Tiger Prawn Schnitzel is finished with a spicy Korean ssamjang that brings together the tropical fruit flavours for a bite of summer freshness.
After ordering, enjoy the absolute Palm Cove beachfront view with a Pineapple Express – Sailor Jerry spiced rum, Falernum, fresh pineapple and lime, shaken and served with coconut sorbet.
In the city at CC's Alfresco in Bailey, a Crystalbrook Collection Hotel, the signature beef steak has been paired with a light salad, ensuring the beef from Crystalbrook Station (west of Cairns) remains the hero of the dish while matching the casual, relaxed setting befitting a balmy Cairns evening.
For more information go to cairnsgreatbarrierreef.com
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Lifestyle Retreats Introduces Pax Animi
Lifestyle Retreats, a hotel and resort boutique management company, is delighted to announce it has diversified its business to add a new division within the company - Pax Animi, complementing the existing offering of the company. A Latin term meaning “peace of mind”, Pax Animi was founded to provide private villas and estates owners tailor-made management and marketing services to ensure their valuable assets are effectively maintained and marketed.
Pax Animi provides owners with complete peace of mind through full transparent management ensuring each asset is always in great shape for owners, their family, friends or paying guests and ultimately, maximize the long-term value of each villa or private estate.
Owners will benefit from being part of the widely respected Lifestyle Retreats brand; a brand that has more than 15 years of experience in focusing on attention to detail in managing hospitality assets. With a much higher level of service standard at the private villa or estate, the managed assets will be positioned at a premium level ahead of the competition. Ongoing training programs based on Lifestyle Retreats' Brand Service Standards will be tailored to suit each villa or private estate.
Owners will also feel at ease with the expertise provided in marketing their assets through optimized websites, dynamic press, social media and digital marketing campaigns, among other marketing strategies
https://www.lifestyleretreats.com/