The expansion of big brands in Italy continues and, according to some sources a Tribute (Marriott) on the Pietrarsa waterfront, and a Mama Shelter (Accor) in Como are in the pipeline.

700 Tribute are rooms in the pipeline for 2023-2025

In Campania the project is a hotel complex which is now under construction, involving part of the old Villa Monaco. Already the restaurant, the Casa Colonica, and a bar, Le Cabine, are operational. According to budget sources the total investment will be some €21.9 million. Once completed the complex should join the Tribute portfolio. The brand landed in Italy in 2020 with the Regency Rome, a 4-star with 40 rooms, and in the three-year period 2023-25 a further six Tribute hotels are in the pipeline in Italy for a total of over 700 rooms.

A new Man Shelter for Como?

It would also seem that a new Mama Shelter is being developed in Como. At the moment however, the size of the property, the exact location and the presumed opening date are unknown. The first hotel of this Accor lifestyle brand in Italy was the Mama Shelter Roma which opened in July 2021.

The expansion of the San Domenico Hotels group continues with the management of the Rosa Marina Resort in Ostuni, in the southern Puglia region.  

The property is part of the Marseglia Group

The hotel company headed by the Melpignano family has in fact just signed a management contract for the management of the Rosa Marina Resort in Ostuni in Puglia, owned by Monopoli-based Italiana Alimenti, in turn part of the Marseglia group, world leader in the processing and marketing of vegetable oils.

The 4-star with 248 rooms will open next Spring 

The resort is a four-star hotel with 248 rooms, spread over a property of some10 hectares. Before its reopening, scheduled for next spring, the complex will undergo renovations, with the aim of repositioning upwards. The number of rooms will be reduced accordingly, in order to increase the average square footage. The works will be carried out by Italiana Alimenti itself, which besides the Rosa Marina also owns a supermarket in Bari and a cinema in Andria.

From Bali to Puglia, via Marbella, Ibiza and the French Riviera and with two new properties in Puglia. The Mandarin Oriental group expands its range of Exclusive Homes private residences.

New hotels in Monopoli and Alberobello

Launched in partnership with StayOne in spring 2022, of the eight new additions two are in Italy: the Masserie Petrarolo in Monopoli and Pistola in Alberobello. The former is immersed in over 50 hectares of ancient olive groves and lavender fields and has nine bedrooms. The Pistola is newly renovated, while keeping intact some original elements such as the conical ceilings typical of trulli houses, and it has ten bedrooms.

“New experiences for our fans around the world”

The other new entries are in Bali, the Uluwatu Estate; in France, the Ville O, Palmira and Riviera, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Super Cannes and Saint-Paul-de-Vence respectively; and in Spain, in Marbella, the Casona de Los Sueños and in Ibiza, the Can Pantera.

"Following the success of 2022, we are excited to offer new destinations and new experiences to our fans around the world," says James Riley, group chief executive Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

At the ITHIC event planned for Rome in October 2023, how will the country's hospitality assets be oriented to generate income in the coming years? 

The 2023 edition will be held in the Villa Pamphili Hotel in Rome

What formulas, models and investment strategies can increase real estate value in the face of high interest rates and a difficult global macroeconomic environment? And how can hotels keep up with the new profitability expected for alternative formats that are growing in popularity, such as student hotels, glamping, serviced/branded apartments, co-living and other hybrid models?  These are some of the questions that we will try to answer during the 2023 edition of the Italian Hospitality Conference. Organized by Teamwork and THRENDS, ITHIC will not be held in Rimini this year, but in Rome in the exclusive location of the Villa Pamphili Hotel on 19 and 20 October

“Participants will include major global players”

Entitled Turning assets into value the 2023 event will be “more international and have more participants from the world of property and finance, with the aim of building perspectives and interpreting the great challenges of the coming years, relying on new models and ways of thinking.  They will include major global players in management, finance and development and there will also be an event dedicated to public assets that will be included in valorisation strategies, and a lounge area for international investors."

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Urban Hive Milano is the name of the new 4-star boutique hotel in the Brera district of Milan. The property was formerly the Carlyle Brera.

Five categories of rooms from Mini to Suite

The boutique hotel has been completely renovated by Vudafieri-Saverino Partners and has 97 rooms and suites in five different categories on seven floors: the Mini for single travelers or mini stays, the Cozy to be shared by two, the Grande for families (a double bed or two single beds, plus an additional single bed), the Taylor which is made to measure with premium devices and personalized services, and the Junior Suite, the largest room in the hotel with a view of Milan’s skyline.

Urban Hive Milano Ph. credits Paolo Valentini

Ph Credits Alberto Blassetti

Co-working areas and three meeting rooms

There are also several co-working areas for different uses during the day. The mezzanine is for breakfasts but after 11.00am it morphs into a co-working space for the city's startups. From the community table in the lobby to the shared offices on the mezzanine and in the basement, these common areas have been designed to be open to the city. There is also a multifunctional business area with three meeting rooms.

The Portico 84 restaurant is helmed by Dom Carella

The fitness room is open 24/7 and the Urban Hive Milano will also offer customers who arrive before the scheduled check-in time, a locker service for luggage and an area with a shower.  The F&B, by Dom Carella who is well-known on Milan’s gastronomic scene, is in the Portico 84 which shares access to the lobby on one side and to Corso Garibaldi on the other.

Zeitgeist Asset Management is focusing on Italy and has acquired the Midas in Rome. This is its second investment in Italy, following last June's acquisition of an office building in the capital. 

The Midas is a four-star hotel with 349 rooms in Rome’s Aurelio district

The Czech property management and development company arrived in Italy last year, thanks to a joint venture with Filippo Bianchini-Scudellari and Sebastiano Canessa. The aim is to invest up to €500 million in Italy, also through the contribution of German institutional funds. The Midas in Rome is a four-star hotel with 349 rooms in the Aurelio district. It has three restaurants, a lounge bar and cocktail garden, a conference centre, rooms for events and meetings, an outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts.

“It is a good mix of midweek and weekend business and leisure guests”

Filippo Bianchini Scudellari co founder e AD Zeitgeist Asset Management Italia 

"We believe that this operation is a positive signal for a market that is currently in a wait-and-see phase, with operators trying to understand possible evolutions," said Filippo Bianchini-Scudellari, co-founder and managing director of Zeitgeist Asset Management Italia. "This is our first Roman property, and it is a good mix of midweek and weekend business and leisure guests. It is also in an interesting location thanks to the expansion project for Fiumicino airport, where a new terminal, two new runways and services are planned, allowing the airport to handle up to 100 million passengers a year.”

Zeitgeist operates in residential, offices and urban development

Zeitgeist Asset Management was founded in Prague in 2014 and develops and manages real estate assets for private and institutional investors in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Italy.  The sectors in which it operates are residential (with over 700 flats under management), student residences (over a thousand beds under management) and offices, as well as in urban development and energy solutions. The company manages over 45 real estate projects and has assets under management worth over €800 million.  

The Spanish Palladium Group is to launch its Only You Hotels brand in Venice, with an urban hotel.

After renovations the 5-star hotel will have 168 rooms

The launch will follow renovations, and the re-branding of an existing five-star hotel, with 168 rooms and various F&B putlets, including a panoramic terrace. The Palladium group recently announced its Venice Only You Hotels property investment at Fitur in Madrid, following the signing of the leasing contract for the property which is due to open in 2025.

The design project is by the international Lázaro Rosa-Violán studio

Other new developments include the inauguration of another Only You in Seville planned for the first quarter of next year. This property is currently undergoing renovations and will be a 226-room 5-star hotel with a wide range of restaurants and event spaces, including a large outdoor swimming pool. Both interior design projects, in Seville and Venice, are by the international Lázaro Rosa-Violán studio.

The new Casa Clàt, which has just opened in the heart of Cagliari, has of nine suites, a restaurant and a bar and has a Mediterranean style.

Casa Clàt is themed on the Mediterranean

In spring the secret garden, an outdoor living room with the best raw fish on the island, will also make its debut. The hotel is owned by Caterina and Claudio Murgia, former administrators of Nieddittas, a company specialising in mussel farming. The theme that inspired artistic director Giorgio Casu is the Mediterranean with its corals and dunes, and he collaborated with Sardinian artists Carolina Melis and Mauro Patta for the frescoed walls, graphic works and handmade tapestries.

Each room has a surprise feature

Each suite of Casa Clàt on the three floors has a suspended king-sized bed, parquet flooring, exposed beams and custom-made furnishings. And in each room there is a surprise, such as the hot tub in the centre of the Smeraldo Suite or the circular bed in the Isola Suite. In the Eclàt, on the top floor, modernity and vintage combine and in the main bedroom, just behind the canopy bed there is a mural. The Torrino is the highest point of the building: a unique space that can be reserved for a romantic dinner or a private event with a 360-degree view of Cagliari and the sea.

The Mediterranean Restaurant is open for lunch and dinner

The entrance on Viale Regina Margherita gives direct access to the public areas including the lounge bar which is open from the morning for gourmet breakfasts, a quick lunch or an aperitif accompanied by tasty delicacies. The Mediterranean Restaurant is open for lunch and dinner, and helmed by the young executive chef Filippo Monaco, under the guidance of Umberto Vezzoli, a globetrotting chef who has spent his career at the helm of kitchens in prestigious restaurants and hotels.