Ankara news

Luxury resort and casino Fontainebleau Las Vegas has unveiled its two-floor wellness retreat complete with a 44-treatment-room spa and comprehensive fitness facilities. Developed by Fontainebleau ... More

Montage has selected Carrie Sotebeer to lead the spa team at Montage Healdsburg resort in Sonoma County, California, opening 12 December 2020. The launch of ... More

Ankara-based design office ONZ Architects have revealed plans to transform Antakya Atatürk Stadium in Hayat, Turkey into an elevated green park with a perimeter that ... More

Turkey’s parliament is planning to bring more attention to animal rights in the country via the unusual method of opening a zoo outside its buildings ... More

The huge new theme park in Ankara, Turkey, that had been known as Ankapark has now officially opened under the new moniker Wonderland Eurasia. Covering ... More

A huge new theme park is set to open in this Turkish capital, Ankara, in March, covering an area of 1.4m sq m (15.1m sq ... More

The Unesco World Heritage Site of Troy in northwestern Turkey is set for a new museum celebrating its much-mythologised history, which will open later this ... More

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has today (26 June) unveiled the largest ever shortlist for its Building of the Year competition. WAF – one of ... More

KSDL, the firm that operates Huddersfield’s John Smith’s Stadium, has lifted the lid on the ambitious £65m (US$81m, €76m) leisure project planned for the surrounding ... More

The Green Spa Network named the winners in its Sustainability Awards during the 2016 Congress Gala Banquet held at the Devil’s Thumb Ranch in Colorado. ... More

Himalayan salt products supplier Saltability has named Diane Trieste – a former member of the company’s advisory board – to the new position of vice ... More

Global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will are building a new, fully-functioning city surrounding one of the largest airports in the world. The firm are masterplanning ... More

Tokyo-based Hotel Okura is opening its first spa and resort in Turkey, tentatively called the Okura Spa & Resort Cappadocia, in 2017. Located in Mustafapasa, ... More

Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Golden Horn, Turkey, will open on 31 March. The hotel is sited 10 minutes from the Old City’s historic sights and 10 ... More

Turkish operator MACFit is rolling out its low-cost concept following the launch of its first budget club in Ankara in January. The brand now has ... More

The lavish JW Marriott Resort & Spa on the island of Sacca Sessola in Italy, which is set to open end of 2014, has announced ... More

DoubleTree by Hilton is continuing its Turkish expansion with the opening of a new coastal resort in Kusadasi overlooking Kusadasi Bay and the Aegean Sea. ... More

Castle Hotel & Spa is set to open a US$9m (7m euro, £5.6m) Thann Sanctuary Spa in Westchester County, New York, US in May 2013. ... More

Swiss hospitality group Mövenpick has announced that all of its 21 hotels in Europe have now achieved Green Globe certification. The move is part of ... More

Luxury resort operator Mövenpick has launched the Beach Resort Al Khobar in eastern Saudi Arabia. The resort is the ninth hotel to be opened by ... More

Marriott International's luxury hotel brand, JW Marriott, has expanded into Turkey with the opening of a 413-room Ankara property under a management deal with Ozkar ... More

Renaissance Hotels, the upscale brand owned by Marriott International, has confirmed plans to open a new 212-room property overlooking the Bosphorus in Istanbul early next ... More

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has signed with Faik Celik Turizm to develop Sheraton and Aloft hotels in the Turkish city of Bursa. Scheduled to open ... More

The newly-opened US$37m (28.8m euro, £24m) Sankara Nairobi hotel is host to the first Angsana Spa in eastern Africa. Featuring seven treatment rooms, in addition ... More