The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) has formalised a further three new luxury hotel management agreements with international brands to operate resorts in the first phase of development at The Red Sea Project.

Rosewood Hotel & Resorts has officially marked its entry into South America with the opening this week of a landmark property in São Paulo, Brazil.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will expand its portfolio further in the Middle East with the addition of a new-build hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Slated to open in 2025, Rosewood Riyadh will be situated adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of At-Turaif, located within Diriyah Gate – a mixed-use development project poised to become the country’s leading cultural and lifestyle destination.

Rosewood São Paulo will begin welcoming guests from 15 December 2021, heralding Rosewood Hotels & Resorts’ entrance into South America.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has planted its flag in Spain with the opening of Rosewood Villa Magna in Madrid.

New York’s icon, The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, is so called because when it was being built, in 1930, Diana Ginsberg Jaffe, daughter of the developer, Moses Ginsberg, was reading all-round British brain, Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. (Interestingly, Carlyle’s best-known work, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, is just as relevant today – and, inter alia, he inspired the mathematical term ‘Carlyle Circle’, which surely would make a great name for a loyalty following.)

San Francisco has been pinpointed as the third Californian city Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will raise its flag.

My first memory of Rosewood Hong Kong is, in all honesty, its women-only speakeasy, XX Bar – at my visit, the only guys around were the mixologists. There were fluffy pink slippers to borrow as I sipped my ‘Radha’ cocktail, a strawberry, plum, and Monkey Shoulder single malt concoction named for Rosewood’s ultra-suave President, Radha Arora.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has confirmed plans to open the brand’s fifth property in Europe, Rosewood Vienna, in 2022. The project was first announced in 2017 and had been earmarked to welcome guests in 2021.

A brand new, 55-villa ultra-luxury property on Miyako Island in the Okinawan archipelago will be the entry point to Japan for Rosewood Hotels & Resorts.

Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, in partnership with real estate developer Qatari Diar, have officially signed off on the name for the ultra-luxury hospitality company’s second London-based property. The Chancery Rosewood will open in the city’s highbrow Mayfair district in 2024.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will add Rome to its global footprint in 2023.