Marriott and Schrager to open Reykjavik hotel
Marriott International is joining forces with designer Ian Schrager and Carpenter & Company to open its first hotel in Iceland in 2018.
It claims the Reykjavik EDITION will be the ‘first true luxury-lifestyle brand’, combining Schrager’s ‘personal, intimate, individualised and unique hotel experience’ with the ‘global reach, operational expertise and scale’ of Marriott.
Marriott will manage the hotel under a long-term agreement.
The 250-room hotel will be located on the harbour waterfront in the heart of downtown Reykjavik, next to Harpa, the city’s conference hall.
The project will be financed by Carpenter and a major Icelandic bank plus local equity investors.
Marriott already has EDITION hotels in New York, London, Miami and Istanbul.
Future hotels are planned for Abu Dhabi, Sanya, China, and Bangkok in 2016, Times Square and West Hollywood in 2018, and Wuhan, China, and Bali, Indonesia in 2019.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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