Okinawa's Kise Bettei Hotel & Spa to become Ritz-Carlton
NAHA —
Ritz-Carlton and Kanehide, a prominent conglomerate in Okinawa, have signed an agreement for the development of The Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa.
The resort hotel will offer 97 guest rooms with views over a golf course down to the East China Sea, the Motobu Peninsula and beyond to Ie Island.
The Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa will be situated within the premises of the Kise Country Club and surrounded on three sides by its 18-hole Championship course overlooking the ocean. The Kise Country Club is bordered by undeveloped wooded land adding to the beautiful setting and location of the resort.
The hotel will replace the existing Kise Bettei Hotel & Spa after an extensive renovation of more than 1 billion yen. The existing property will close in August of this year and re-open as The Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa in April 2012.
The newly renovated hotel will feature three destination dining outlets, as well as a lounge and bar, an ESPA spa and full leisure facilities including a pool and gym.
This is the first conversion project for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in Japan. The new look interiors will be created by Ilya Corporation.
Herve Humler, president and COO of The Ritz-Carlton, said: “We are delighted to be signing not just our first resort in Japan, but also the first internally-branded luxury hotel in Okinawa. This hotel will be the perfect opportunity to showcase a different side of The Ritz-Carlton brand to our loyal Japanese and international guests in the country who will be more familiar with our leading city center hotels in Tokyo and Osaka. We have great partners in Kanehide and we are happy to be working with them to develop what will be a truly stunning resort hotel here in Okinawa.”
Okinawa is the most popular tropical resort in Japan with more than 5.7 million visitors to the region last year.
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CHAMADE
Who is Ilya and what have they done? It's hard to imagine a Ritz Carlton in a setting like Okinawa, where one would expect interiors evoking the island, not yet another strictly western ambiance like Ritz is so known for. And who will be their market? People from the mainland Japan I imagine, who like that sort of westerner wannabe look. I also hear that the Hoshino group, who IMHO never do anything quite right - even in Kyoto where they BOUGHT the leftovers of authenticity - are planning some kind of hotel in a currently pristine part of Okinawa Prefecture. The Okinawans should monitor what these visionless, money hungry developer hotel companies are planning - their islands are not indestructable.
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sunshinekyutech
I want to go Okinawa. I have not gone to Okinawa. I want to see beautiful sea of Okinawa.
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Kwaabish
Kise Bettei was such a nice facility already... that being said, it would be interesting to see how Ritz-Carlton handles it.
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