Auberge to manage second VieVage: Auberge Resorts Cllection will manage the new VieVage Los Cabos in Mexico.
Marriott adds Dubai property: Marriott International, Inc. has signed Dubai’s Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa to its Autograph Collection. The property will join the collection in 2015.
Read more at Marriott’s website
Riu to open resort complex: Riu Hotels & Resorts will open three hotels on the Le Morne Peninsula on the island of Mauritius. The complex will include the Riu Le Morne, Riu Creole and Riu Coral.
Harmon settlement: On the day the court case was supposed to begin and after 15 months of talks, a settlement between MGM Resorts and Perini Building Co. was announced Tuesday in the construction defect case involving CityCenter’s Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas. While terms of the settlement in the case that involved some US$400 million in damage claims are confidential, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that MGM filed a notice with the SEC saying it would pay US$173 million to resolve the lawsuit, with US$20 million going to CityCenter and US$153 million to Perini. Of that total, US $72 million was in escrow from CityCenter condo sales. The company will pay out US$101 million.
Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal
Chicago Conrad project: Laurence Geller is teaming up with Conrad Hotels & Resorts for his first project in Chicago since leaving Strategic Hotels & Resorts. Geller plans to convert a vacant office building into a 290-room Conrad hotel.
Read more at Crain’s Chicago Business
News restaurant at the Trump: The Trump Organization and José Andrés’ ThinkFoodGroup will open a signature restaurant in Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C. The to-be-named José Andrés restaurant will debut when the hotel opens in 2016 after undergoing a $200 million redevelopment of the historic Old Post Office by The Trump Organization.
Read more at The Washington Post
Steigenberger to open in Cologne: The Steigenberger Hotel Group will take over the Hotel Cologne Rudolfplatz in Cologne, Germany and reopen as the Steigenberger Hotel Köln in 2016.
Read more at Steigenberger’s website
Medical tourism in Korea: According to a research paper from the School of Hotel Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Korea needs to maximize its strengths, utilize its opportunities, overcome its weaknesses and prepare for threats in order to become one of the premier destinations for medical tourism.
Read more at the Pacific Asia Travel Association’s website