MALDIVES—IHG Inns & Resorts introduced a partnership with Roxy-Pacific Holdings Pte Ltd to introduce its Vignette Assortment model to the Maldives. The conversion deal will see Noku Maldives, Vignette Assortment, a 50-key villa resort on the island of Kudafunafaru, be a part of IHG’s Luxurious & Way of life portfolio in December 2024 after refurbishment below the Vignette Assortment model.
Chris Anklin, senior director, improvement, South East Asia and Korea, IHG Inns & Resorts mentioned, “We’re proud that our first collaboration with Roxy-Pacific brings the Vignette Assortment model to the Maldives in lovely Noonu Atoll—a vacation spot famend for its plentiful sea life and greater than 30 excellent dive spots. It is going to be a implausible boutique resort, delivering unforgettable stays and providing the model’s promise of weaving duty, neighborhood, and locality collectively to make a constructive affect on its environment.
“This provides to the file conversion actions IHG loved within the first half of this yr—representing 41 % of openings and 55 % of signings globally throughout most of our model portfolio. All through this area, greater than half of our signings at the moment are conversions, which is a testomony to the attractiveness of our manufacturers, the energy of IHG’s enterprise platform, and our capacity to transform and rebrand briefly time frames.
“As we gear as much as our December launch, we stay up for welcoming friends to Noku Maldives, Vignette Assortment—our fifth IHG property within the Maldives—because the Vignette Assortment model joins Six Senses, InterContinental, and Vacation Inn in a broad portfolio of experiences with a keep for each visitor and each event.”
Chris Teo, deputy CEO and government director, Roxy-Pacific Holdings Pte Ltd, “Maldives is a bucket checklist journey vacation spot with enduring enchantment, which is having fun with robust and constant demand. It has set its sights on a two million arrival goal this yr—a ten % enhance on 2023—because it positions itself as a number one sustainable tourism location, and we’re offering an idyllic getaway from which vacationers can discover its many wonders.
“We all know our friends search significant and genuine keep experiences as they embed themselves in native cultures and join with the communities round them. As a part of a rapidly rising model household, Noku Maldives, Vignette Assortment will retain its distinctive identification, supported by IHG’s scale and IHG One Rewards loyalty program. Along with IHG, we stay up for offering friends with an elevated resort expertise that can encourage them to remain longer and uncover the pure wonders round them.”
Noku Maldives, Vignette Assortment is a 45-minute seaplane experience from Male Worldwide Airport or a 40-minute flight to Maafaru Home Airport, adopted by a 15-minute velocity boat experience to the island.
With a land space of just about 90,000 sq. meters, it consists of 30 overwater villas and 20 beachfront villas, most of which have a personal pool. With the smallest villa at 175 sq. meters, the property has among the largest villas within the Maldives. Services embody two eating places and bars, an out of doors swimming pool, a health middle, a spa, a retail outlet, and a diving and watersports middle.
IHG launched Vignette Assortment in August 2021 to supply a unique value level to the upscale conversion model voco and complement its current Luxurious & Way of life portfolio. The model has grown globally to 18 open lodges, together with Convent Sq. Lisbon, Vignette Assortment in Portugal; The Halyard Liverpool, Vignette Assortment in the UK; Sindhorn Midtown Lodge Bangkok, Vignette Assortment; Dinso Resort & Villas Phuket, Vignette Assortment in Thailand; Th8 Palm Dubai Seashore Resort within the United Arab Emirates; and Lodge X Brisbane Fortitude Valley in Australia.
