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Travel News: Autograph Collection’s Most Sustainable Luxury Hotels, All-Inclusive and Truly Exaggerated Travel
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Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH), a league of more than 500 boutique retreats in 90 countries, recently launched the “Considerate Collection” to showcase its most sustainable member hotels. Properties must master three key themes: enriching their local community, protecting cultural heritage and benefiting the environment through regeneration measures. Currently, 26 establishments are in the spotlight, including the Gaïa Riverlodge, a hydroelectric facility in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize, founded by Canadian hotelier Daniel Lighter.
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If you’re a big travel point collector, prefer all-inclusive travel and love sun-drenched destinations: All-Inclusive by Marriott Bonvoy has added 20 resorts to its portfolio, the first all-inclusive properties to join the Autograph collection of the business. Blue Diamond-owned resorts – most of them located in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica – include the relatively new Royalton Chic Cancun (opened in 2019) and the newly renovated Royalton Chic Punta Cana (reopening November 1) . All locations will be part of the Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program.
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InterContinental Hotels and Resorts Celebrates its 75th Anniversary with the Launch of Limited Edition Diamond Stay Packages. The list of exceptional experiences includes a stay at the InterContinental London Park Lane and InterContinental Edinburgh The George – a private jet will take you between the two. The package also includes access to Kensington Palace, a portrait session with a photographer from the Royal Family, and dinner at Edinburgh Castle. A slightly more accessible way to celebrate the anniversary: with a glass of “InterContinental75” – a version of the French 75, made with Piper-Heidsieck champagne and Dry Gin Botanist’s Islay, and served in more than 130 InterContinental establishments around the world, with selected hotels putting their own local take on the signature cocktail.
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After a pandemic outage, the last iteration of “Greater New York” has just opened at MoMA PS1, the contemporary art institution in Queens. Now in its fifth edition (until April 18, 2022), the popular recurring exhibit highlights pieces from 47 New York-area artists and collectives as they express their relationship to the city. The exhibition is one of two major artistic investigations opening in New York this month: the other, “Soft Water Hard Stone,” the new museum’s fifth triennial, will feature works by 40 artists and collectives. of the whole world.
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