The Accor group's collection of lifestyle hotels, developed through the Ennismore joint venture, will undergo new developments this year with around twenty hotels in the pipeline around the world. " After a year of remarkable openings in 2024, including the debut of Delano Dubai, we look forward to another year of hotel openings in all regions." explained Gaurav Bhushan, co-CEO of Ennismore.
Among the highlights expected in 2025, the return to business of an iconic Art Deco hotel, the Delano Miami, as well as the debut of SLS in Europe with a top-of-the-range resort in Barcelona, also suitable for MICE events, and new hotels in major world cities. After Dubai in early January, Mama Shelter will be rolling out its quirky design hotel concept both in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich, and in Singapore, near Orchard Road, with a 115-room hotel topped by a rooftop swimming pool.
In the same vein, the German brand 25hours will be making its debut later this year at Sydney revisiting the former Olympia Theatre art house cinema as an arty 109-room hotel with four bars and restaurants, two meeting rooms and, of course, a rooftop bar. Also in Australia, another Ennismore brand, Hyde, will open its doors in mid-2025 in Perth's business district, with a lifestyle hotel conducive to relaxation, with bohemian-style public spaces and an outdoor swimming pool surrounded by tropical vegetation.
This 'down under' expansion will be completed in May with a new Mondrian hotel in Gold Coast, an upmarket resort along Burleigh Beach. Equally focused on relaxation, with its lagoon-side location, six F&B concepts and outdoor pool, the future Mondrian Abu Dhabiexpected at the end of the year, will also have an urban dimension, more conducive to business travel, with four meeting rooms and a large ballroom. The region will also see the opening of several resorts by the luxury brand Rixos, which is also preparing to offer a hotel focusing on family and business customers in Saudi Arabia, in the emerging metropolis King Abdullah Economic City.
Closer to home, the lifestyle and upmarket spirit of The Hoxton will cross paths with business travellers in new European destinationsparticularly in the British Isles. At the end of the year, it made its debut in Dublin with the takeover, after a lengthy renovation phase, of one of the Irish capital's most famous establishments, the Central Hotel. Another conversion project, of a very different kind, will see the brand in Edinburgh this year with the transformation of 11 Georgian-style houses into a complex of 214 rooms and flats, also offering a lively trattoria, a small cinema and spaces for meetings and events.
The Hoxton also offers a hotel in the heart of the city, where you can combine the Renaissance with the contemporary. FlorenceTwo buildings, a palazzo dating from the XVIe century and its minimalist counterpart designed in the 1980s. The programme includes 161 rooms, a restaurant and a wine bar, as well as event spaces.
