Four Seasons plans city growth

Four Seasons plans city growth

FOUR Seasons Hotels and Resorts is to open seven city centre and resort properties over the next three years.

The upmarket hotel chain has unveiled plans to open a resort at Emerald Bay in The Bahamas late next year.

The 235-room property will feature a Four Seasons-branded championship golf course designed by professional golfer Greg Norman, a 60-villa Residence Club and also a full-service spa.

In addition, the group plans to open a resort in the Canadian ski resort of Whistler in the latter half of 2002 but the project is still subject to local planning approval.

The Four Seasons Costa Rica is scheduled to open around the same time on the Papagayo Peninsula in the province of Guanacaste.

It will form part of a larger residential resort located 10 miles from the new Liberia International Airport. The 170-room and 40-villa unit property will be designed in one- and two-storey buildings to form a hillside village overlooking the ocean.

Other resorts are planned for the Cote d’Azur in France and in Puerto Rico.

Meanwhile, further city properties are due to open in Alexandria in Egypt and Beirut in Lebanon.

The latest announcements follow those for hotels in Budapest, Cairo, Caracas, Dublin, Prague, San Francisco, Shanghai and Sharm El Sheikh.

The group currently manages 47 properties in 19 countries under the Four Seasons and Regent brands.