Marriott International will debut the iconic St. Regis Hotels & Resorts brand in Costa Rica. The property will span 20 hectares on the Gulf of Papagayo in the Guanacaste region, and is slated to open in early 2027.

St. Regis Hotels & Resorts has officially unveiled its newest property, The St. Regis Shenzhen Bao’an, marking an important milestone in the luxury hotel brand’s expansion into China.

The St Regis on the Bund, Shanghai has opened its doors, taking the luxury hotel firm’s tally of global properties to 60 and its Chinese portfolio to 13.

Harry Sommer, President and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, says new players in the luxury cruise market are healthy for competition, helping lure new-to-cruise travellers to the lucrative floating holiday segment.

St. Regis Hotels and Resorts has this week debuted The St. Regis Qingdao, the first Marriott International luxury brand hotel in the northeastern Shandong region.

Marriott International’s St. Regis Hotels & Resorts brand will expand its footprint in the United States in 2021 to 10 properties having signed a deal to bring the ultra-luxury brand to Chicago. The St. Regis Chicago will take the form of the Vista Tower project that’s under development by The Alinea Group in the ‘Windy City’.

The St. Regis Venice has officially opened in the Italian tourist mecca, boasting the largest waterfrontage in the famed city. The former Grand Hotel Britannia has been restored as part of a full-scale revitalisation over the past two years.

St. Regis Hotels and Resorts has made its first foray in the Kingdom of Jordan. Extending the legacy of the Astor family from Fifth Avenue in New York to Amman’s 5th Circle, The St. Regis Amman blends the sophistication and heritage of the original St. Regis hotel in New York with Jordan’s rich Bedouin culture.

LTI – Luxury Travel Intelligence has revealed the top 12 luxury hotel brands in the world for 2019. The results are based on a rigorously defined algorithm, LTI says, that measures the performance and values of luxury hotel brands. That algorithm encompasses over 120 touch points relevant to the high-end hotel sector.

Marriott International is expecting to open more than 30 luxury properties in 2019, furthering the company’s global perspective on luxury travel with its ensemble of eight distinct luxury brands. Through the hallmarks of The Ritz-Carlton, Ritz-Carlton Reserve, St. Regis, W, The Luxury Collection, EDITION, JW Marriott and Bulgari, Marriott International continues to push boundaries, creating new guest experiences which meet the needs of the evolving luxury traveller. The company already has hotels and resorts in more than 60 countries and territories and is poised to expand its luxury footprint with more than 200 properties in the development pipeline, representing 20 new countries for the company’s luxury portfolio, from Sri Lanka to Bermuda and Morocco to Kenya.

Marriott International will debut The St. Regis luxury hotel brand in Morocco in 2020. The hotel juggernaut this week announced that through a partnership with Abu Dhabi real estate private investment firm, Eagle Hills, they would open The St Regis Tamuda Bay on the country’s northwestern coast.

St Regis Zhuhai is the 10th masterpiece of Marriott International’s luxury brand in Greater China, and will welcome guests from September 2018 in the coastal city known as “Chinese Riviera”.