Hotel Openings

🏖 Tivoli Estela Golf & Lodges, located next to Estela Golf Club and the Atlantic Ocean, offers 80 lodges with suites, family lodges, and standard rooms featuring outdoor terraces. Guests enjoy Portuguese cuisine at Green’s Restaurant, Dunas Bar, and the Pool Bar. Facilities include a wellness center with a hydrotherapy pool and gym, a 125 sqm meeting room, and activities like golf, surfing, and yoga. It's Tivoli's ninth hotel in Portugal and enhances their expansion strategy.

🍴 Shii, a Japanese restaurant in Helsinki designed by Joanna Laajisto, opened in summer 2025. It features an 11-course tasting menu and seats 22 diners. The interior, crafted from a 300-year-old oak wine press and sourced from Tori, includes an eight-meter bar and a private dining room. The space, a former bakery, combines Nordic and Japanese influences, using soft lighting and handmade elements, such as a Kyoto washi-paper lantern, to create a warm atmosphere.

📍 Tbilisi-based 10:10 Interiors, led by Sandro Lominashvili and Nanka Dolidze, renovated 84 rooms at Lopota Lake Resort & Spa in Georgia's Kakheti wine region, reflecting local landscapes and traditions. The 60-hectare estate features private balconies, felt wall hangings by Mariana Chkonia, and custom furniture from 100-year-old timber. Established in 2008, the resort includes design elements such as terracotta walls and black-and-white tiles, embodying the Kakheti spirit.

🏨 Starhotels Group has reopened Hotel Gabrielli in Venice as a five-star property after a renovation by designer Andrea Auletta. Located on Riva degli Schiavoni, near Piazza San Marco, this 14th-century palazzo has been owned by the Perkhofer family since 1856. It offers 66 rooms and suites, a spa, and two bars. Now part of Starhotels’ Collezione brand, it also joins The Leading Hotels of the World.

🏨 HARBR. Hotel Ludwigsburg offers 111 rooms, 1 restaurant, and 3 meeting rooms with space for up to 50 participants each. Located next to the main railway station, it provides high-speed Wi-Fi, air conditioning, smart TVs, online check-in, and 24-hour services. This hotel is part of Radisson Individuals’ expansion in Germany, alongside properties in Berlin and Munich. Upcoming additions include hotels in Heilbronn and Constance by 2025.

🏨 Hilton, a 106-year-old company founded in 1919 in Cisco, Texas, has expanded to 24 brands and over 200 million loyalty members. The newly opened Hilton Arlington Rosslyn The Key, a 36-story hotel in Arlington, Virginia, exemplifies Hilton's refreshed identity. The hotel features 331 guestrooms, 28,000 sq ft of event space, and a signature 36th-floor venue. Key changes include a decentralized lobby and handheld steamers replacing irons. It’s a 15-minute drive from Hilton’s global headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

🏨 Schloss Roxburghe, Scottish Borders, received an AA five-star rating with a Quality Score of 91%. Its spa is now an AA Recommended Spa. Since 2018, after being sold by the Duke of Roxburghe, the estate has seen significant investment, including the opening of a state-of-the-art spa. The spa features an outdoor suite, infinity pool, Finnish sauna, and wellness treatments. General Manager Bruno De Schuyter acknowledges the team’s commitment to transforming the estate into a top luxury destination.