Buenos Aires will add 36 new hotels
In the coming months will be opened several five-star and a super luxury, boutique accommodation continues to grow.
The consolidation of Buenos Aires as a favorite destination of international tourism in Latin America encouraged a significant investment which aims to increase in coming months the number of places to sleep in the city by 2013, will open 36 hotels in the capital, among considered them a six-star, for which cost about $ 490 million.
These amazing hotels of Buenos Aires will focus on the neighborhoods of Palermo, Puerto Madero, Recoleta and downtown, mainly. Of the 36 hotels, 20 of them will open before the end of the year, while the remaining 16 were released between 2012 and early 2013, confirming the growth trend in the tourism sector has in recent years in the capital the country.
According to the Entity of Tourism of Buenos Aires, Capital is in the 460 hotels with a total of 25,939 rooms. The 36 new stores will bring the city about 2500 new rooms and more than 5000 places in the hotel industry in Buenos Aires. Is expected to increase accommodation plant 8 percent by 2013 and 10 percent the number of rooms.
“Today, the city of Buenos Aires is an indisputable cultural center of attraction, which explains in large part, the growth of tourists staying in the capital. In 2010, the increase in domestic tourists staying in the city represented 17.2% according to the registration of the Tourism Observatory of the Entity. Investors look to Buenos Aires as a city matures and solid on tourism, “he told La Nacion Hernán Lombardi, Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires and president of Ente de Turismo. He added: “Talking about 4,677,302 tourists, national and international-housed in hotels in the city is not a minor detail: Barcelona and Madrid 6,476,033 and 7,193,179 recorded respectively in the same period.”
The profile of the new hotel investments in the city ranging from enterprises four-and five-star will be five of its kind, to the recently announced six stars Mayan Resort, near Dam 1 of Puerto Madero.This hotel chain belongs to the Mansions of the Word will be the first six star hotel-category considered that officially does not exist, the Americas, with 120 rooms and a total investment of 75 million. Plans to open its doors in July 2013.
Have a level equivalent to their counterparts in the Middle East, area in which first rose up the super luxury hotels of the world, as the Bureau Al Arab, Dubai, and the estimated area where they built the venture will occupy 29,000 square meters. Will have 129 rooms, the smallest of which is 300 m2 and more than 500 m2, two restaurants, a bar, a multipurpose room for conferences and events, an indoor heated pool, sauna and tennis courts, among other services and exclusive amenities.
The design includes the distinction of the modern service in luxury and technology. Investors estimate that the hotel operation will require 500 people to operate and provide personalized attention to its guests. It even provides for the care of a butler on each floor for 24 hours.
The boutique hotels in Buenos Aires:
Also be strengthened in the coming months a phenomenon Buenos Aires: the explosive growth of boutique hotels. It is estimated that one third of the 36 hotels that are released belong to this category.
Boutique hotels are unique in having a strong emphasis on design, service and personalized attention, issues that, according to experts, have an important development in Buenos Aires in recent years. It is estimated that by year’s end the number of boutique hotels in the city exceed one hundred.
Meanwhile, among the rest of the planned investments predominantly four and five star hotels, among which include the construction of Art Alvear Hotel, Suipacha 1036, the St. Regis in the 200 Cecilia Grierson; the Alvear Hotel & Residences in Aime Paine 1100, and the aforementioned Mayan Resort. All these hotels represent for the city a total investment of 250 million dollars.
The Art Hotel Alvear, in Buenos Aires hotel than a traditional will, from 2012 to become first in the chain will have 150 rooms, all suites, plus a business center, meeting rooms and a conference room and parties 300. The estimated investment is 30 million.
While another “branch” of the prestigious hotel, the Alvear Hotel and Residence to be built in Puerto Madero, will have 150 rooms, two restaurants, business center, park with pool, bar, solarium and two-story health club with heated pool. The estimated investment is 75 million and opened in 2013.
Moreover, the firm opened in 2012 Design Suites Hotel Boca Juniors Tacuarí street in San Telmo. Be the first theme hotel built in the football world and also to welcome fans from home and abroad, will host the team Boca Juniors as a place of concentration. The building, ultramodern, was designed by renowned architect Carlos Ott.
“Buenos Aires Argentina is the fate that has best seasonally adjusted demand, and this, from a thorough job of scheduling its range of cultural activities and events of the year,” said Lombardi. He added: “This is a strategic element in attracting investment in tourism and the decision of investors to choose the city of Buenos Aires.”
According to the Entity of Tourism of the city, investment in tourism from 2008 until last year grew by 133 percent, having added about 1.124 billion dollars in hotel construction.
