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🏨 Preferred Hotels & Resorts expands into Egypt, adding six Wings Encora Collection properties to its Lifestyle Collection. The new entries include Coral Sea Holiday Resort in Sharm El Sheikh and five luxury Nile cruise ships. These ships, like Mazaj MS Tamr (38 cabins) and Mazaj MS Tulip (47 cabins), highlight Preferred's delve into Egypt's luxury cruise segment. Saurabh Rai emphasizes this as a strategic expansion across the MENA region, enhancing local culture offerings.

🏨 Hideaway Inns opened its second property in New England at Mount Snow Resort, Vermont, featuring 27 rooms. Managed by Revival Hotels, it offers communal spaces, coworking, a sauna, and mobile check-in via propriety tech. Guests access the HI Innsider Guide for local tips. CEO Saxton Sharad highlights the blend of modern design and technology. Future plans include openings in Lenox, Massachusetts (2026), Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, targeting 25+ properties in five years.

🏨 Dominus has secured approval in September 2025 to convert a telephone exchange on Judd Street, Camden, into a 240-bed hotel. Designed by Stiff + Trevillion, the project retains 80% of the building’s framework and aims for BREEAM Excellent standards. The ground floor will include a public restaurant, café, and bar. Dominus Hospitality will manage the hotel, creating over 100 jobs and launching the Camden Hospitality Academy with Springboard Charity and Hilton.

🏨 Accor partners with Select Group to bring Mövenpick to the UK in late 2027, transforming the Old Thorns Estate in Hampshire. The 194-room property will include a championship golf course, four restaurants, a spa, and 2,500 sqm of meeting space. The ballroom will host over 500 guests. Joining Accor’s 200+ UK hotels, this renovation echoes Mövenpick’s culinary and environmental ethos. Select Group, based in Dubai, has developed over 20 million sq ft globally.

📍 The Zetter is expanding with a 68-room hotel in Bloomsbury, London, opening March 2026. Situated in six interconnecting Georgian townhouses near Russell Square, designed by James Thurstan Waterworth, the hotel will offer amenities like The Parlour, The Orangery, and a gym with outdoor yoga space. The Zetter Bloomsbury is the brand's third London location, alongside its Marylebone and Clerkenwell sites.

🏨 Namron Hospitality has opened its second US boutique hotel, Maison Felix, in Miami's North Beach in December 2025. The hotel, designed by Felix Cohen, features 29 rooms and suites with midcentury style. Amenities include a courtyard with a swimming pool and vaulted ceiling suites. Namron Hospitality, led by founder Yves Naman, also debuted Le Particulier in Miami Beach in October 2025. Maison Felix is designed to offer guests a local, authentic Miami experience.

🏨 Switzerland: Launching in summer 2026, Seiler Constantin—a new hotel collection by André Seiler and Christian Constantin—will debut with Le Clay in Lavaux. Situated on 35 hectares in Puidoux, it features 105 rooms, two restaurants, two bars, a cigar lounge, MICE facilities, and Hyrox’s first hotel gym partnership. Planned expansions include four locations: Lavaux, Crans-Montana, Saas-Fee, and Lugano. Emphasizing outdoor lifestyle, wellbeing, local culture, and culinary experiences, the collection aims to recharge guests physically and mentally.

🏨 Radisson Hotel Group launches its lifestyle brand, Prize, in Norway with two hotels in Bergen. Prize by Radisson, Solheimsviken Bergen offers 217 rooms, a rooftop terrace, and event spaces, situated 2 km from the city center. Meanwhile, Prize by Radisson, Xhibition Bergen City has 55 rooms within the Xhibition shopping center. These openings mark the brand’s debut in the Nordic region. Globally, Radisson operates over 1,580 hotels across more than 100 countries.