TUI to convert Tuscan village into holiday resort
TUI has begun to build a resort in Tuscany with a boutique hotel, country houses and apartments.
The Castelfalfi Resort will be close to an 18-hole golf course, which was developed last autumn.
The resort is being constructed by TUI’s subsidiary TUI Resorts and Hotels and will cost a total of around €250 million.
Two further hotels are to be built in phase two of the development.
“With this project we are embarking on a new chapter in the history of TUI Hotels and Resorts,” said Dr. Michael Frenzel, CEO of TUI AG.
“We are developing an extensive resort which will be unique for the Tuscany region. Aspects of sustainability and the preservation and restoration of this unique landscape are our top priorities,”
In 2007, TUI AG purchased an entire village, Tenuta di Castelfalfi, in the heart of Tuscany.
Over the years, the 26 village farms had fallen into disrepair so that at the time of the purchase only two inhabitants lived in the village.
TUI said it intended to keep Castelfalfi in the same condition while offering a “contemporary hotel concept aimed at specific target groups which can not be found anywhere else in Tuscanyâ€.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
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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