Reed Travel
Exhibitions has pushed back the date of its first hosted
buyer trade show in North America for meeting and incentive
planners from June 2009 to June 2010, according to Paul Kennedy,
RTE’s group exhibition director, meeting and incentive events. The
show’s venue and destination had not been announced at press time,
but Kennedy told M&C it still will be held on the East
Coast, as was reported earlier this year.
The 76-room Fairmont Zimbali
Lodge has opened in South Africa. The property, in a
coastal forest reserve on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal, has a
spa and a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole championship golf
course.
Four Seasons Hotels and
Resorts has opened two new properties in Europe: the Four
Seasons Hotel Florence in Italy and the Four Seasons Istanbul
(Turkey) at the Bosphorus. The 117-room Florence property,
encompassing two historic buildings, has a spa with nine treatment
rooms. The 166-room hotel in Istanbul, in a renovated 19th-century
Ottoman palace, features a traditional hammam and a
spa.