Celebrating Service at InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa

InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa recently celebrated IHGs ‘Celebrate Service Week’, recognizing and thanking the resort teams during a weeklong event.  The week long celebrations included special activities centred on the team, their welfare, achievements and providing essential services on site such as medical, dental and business appointments to ensure their personal welfare and needs were taken care of.

Celebrate Service Week, held from June 6 – 10 was created in 2010 as a way to recognise the more than 345,000 employees who work at the Intercontinental Hotel Group’s (IHG’s) Hotels and Resorts worldwide.  IHG is the management company behind the InterContinental Fiji and has over 5,000 hotels in over 110 countries and territories.  All week long across the globe, IHG properties acknowledged and thanked their teams for their engagement and dedication to service.

Celebrate Anantara’s 15th birthday with dream journey prizes

To help celebrate Anantara’s 15th anniversary this year, 15 lucky competition winners will experience their Anantara Dream Journey, simply by sharing their travel dreams.

Celebrating 15 years of inspirational travel stories, Anantara is inviting modern globetrotters to live out their own travel dreams. Starting on 6th June 2016, Anantara is giving away one Anantara Dream Journey every week for 15 weeks.

For the chance to win one of these extraordinary journeys, travellers simply have to visit http://www.anantaradreamjourneys.com/ and describe why they are dreaming of a highlighted destination each week.  In weeks one to 14, Anantara is giving away stays of three days or more in some of the most sought-after hotels and resorts in their luxury portfolio. In the final week the competition hots up, with the chance to win the grand prize of a multi-destination journey in Thailand including international flights with Emirates and domestic flights with Bangkok Air, along with additional exclusive indulgences.

Plan your post winter wellness retreat at Chiva-Som

From mid 2016 and onwards, Chiva-Som has developed exclusive programmes that are even more specialised and oriented towards the individual goals of guests to aid specific health issues such as stress management, high blood pressure, weight loss and migraines.

A total of thirteen retreats will now be available, including the following four brand new retreats with a required 10 night’s minimum length of stay. They are as follows: Sustainable Slimming, Tension Release, Cranial Relief Retreat and Emotional Wellbeing.

Wilpena Pound Resort celebrates NAIDOC Week in July

Wilpena Pound Resort is preparing for a week of celebrations commencing 3 July, to mark NAIDOC Week 2016, an annual event acknowledging the history, culture and achievements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Jointly owned by Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) and traditional owners – the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association (ATLA), Wilpena Pound Resort will mark this significant event in the Adnyamathanha calendar, with this year’s NAIDOC theme of ‘Songlines: The living narrative of our nation’, which holds great significance for the community.

Vince Coulthard, Chief Executive Officer of ATLA and Non-Executive Director of Wilpena Pound Resort, said, “NAIDOC Week is about showing respect for Aboriginal people, our culture and society and having opportunities to understand it better. This is an important celebration to strengthen our songlines and culture.”

The Peninsula Beijing: An Imperial Rebirth

The newly unveiled renovation of The Peninsula Beijing marks the latest chapter in The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels’ (HSH) long tradition of hospitality excellence in China. With a front row seat in the capital city, HSH’s hotels have witnessed the remarkable transition of China into an economic superpower. Located in central Beijing, just a short walk from Tiananmen Square and the city’s historic cultural venues, The Peninsula Beijing has welcomed the world to Beijing and Beijing to the world for more than a quarter of a century, arguably the most exciting period in the nation’s 5,000-year history.

Smooth new partnership for Radisson Blu Plaza Sydney allows guests to sleep easy

Radisson Blu Plaza Sydney has collaborated with Australian lifestyle brand Papinelle to design an exclusive new range of luxury sleepwear for the hotel’s guests.

For women, Papinelle has created a pure silk set of pyjamas in rich navy colouring with a soft sheen and luxurious feel. A soft premium pima cotton has been used for the pants and shirt combination which will ensure comfort and style for Radisson Blu Sydney’s male guests.

Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley partners with Australia’s leading interior stylist

Australia’s most celebrated interior stylist, Megan Morton, will present Christmas reimagined this July at Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley, with an unforgettable visual feast that celebrates the very best of Yulefest at Australia’s ultra-luxury bushland escape.

From July 1 to 31, guests are invited to embrace the yuletide spirit. Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Greater Blue Mountains guests will indulge by the crackling fire with delicious treats and traditional festivities. Christmas in July at Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley includes two-nights’ accommodation in an ultra-luxury Heritage Villa with a private heated pool, gourmet breakfast, lunch and dinner daily including a five-course Christmas-Inspired Degustation Dinner, wine and cheese tasting session and a festive bonfire at the 1832 Heritage Homestead, all non-alcoholic beverages and a select range of local wines and beer with meals, two on-site nature-based activities per day from the scheduled complimentary inclusions, a $200 One&Only Spa treatment credit per booking plus a stunning Lumira Candle. Throughout the month of July, Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley’s Main Homestead, the Wolgan Dining Room, the Country Kitchen, One&Only Spa and villas will all be styled exclusively by Megan Morton to celebrate Yulefest.