IHG Inns & Resorts has signed a administration settlement with Palau Coral Membership, to open Lodge Indigo Palau on the finish of 2024.

Lodge Indigo Palau will boast an impressive location on Malakal Island, fronting onto a coral reef with superb views and fast entry to world-class diving and marine life. It’ll characteristic roughly 200 visitor rooms, an all-day eating Neighbourhood Café and separate restaurant, a sundown bar by the pool, assembly rooms for 60 folks, a resort centre, swimming pool, spa {and gymnasium}, and all of the amenities mandatory for friends to calm down and luxuriate in a memorable keep.

An island nation wealthy in nature with greater than 200 islands surrounded by lovely seas and coral reefs, the Republic of Palau is considered one of many world’s greatest locations for divers from everywhere in the world, in addition to snorkelling, kayaking, boating and plenty of different ocean actions.

The Lodge Indigo model is legendary for bringing the ‘Neighbourhood Story’ of its vacation spot to friends, weaving the placement into varied elements of service, design, artwork and storytelling. This makes it the proper model to showcase Palau’s superb character, historical past, tradition and pure magnificence to friends from world wide. Lodge Indigo Palau’s story will current a ‘Pledge to the Miraculous Sea’, with a theme impressed by the pure fantastic thing about Palau, some of the pristine marine paradises on this planet.

IHG Inns & Resorts Managing Director, Japan & Micronesia, Abhijay Sandilya stated

“I’m so proud and excited that we now have signed an settlement to open a Lodge Indigo property in Palau with the proprietor, Palau Coral Membership, whose largest shareholder is Mr. Takao Yasuda, founding father of Pan Pacific Worldwide Holdings Ltd. (PPIH). This can be IHG’s first property in Palau, and its third in Micronesia. It additionally follows on from the latest signing of Lodge Indigo Tokyo Shibuya with PPIH, which can open in 2023. Whereas Indigo Tokyo Shibuya and the Palau seashore resort are two very completely different vacation spot, they’re each engaging locations in their very own proper, attracting vacationers from everywhere in the world with a singular story and expertise. We’re assured that each can be very profitable, sharing the distinctive tales of their respective neighbourhoods with the world. We thank PCC and PPIH for his or her nice partnership, and look ahead to working collectively for a few years forward.”

Lodge Indigo Palau’s straightforward accessibility from its key feeder markets, together with Japan, Korea and China, signifies that it’s destined to as soon as once more develop into a preferred vacation spot for a lot of vacationers from everywhere in the world as journey resumes.

There are at the moment 135 open Lodge Indigo properties world wide, and a growth pipeline of 124 resorts. In Japan, there are three Lodge Indigo properties open (Lodge Indigo Hakone Gora, Lodge Indigo Karuizawa and Lodge Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Backyard), with Lodge Indigo Tokyo Shibuya scheduled to open in autumn 2023.

IHG continues to concentrate on increasing its portfolio in Japan and Micronesia.