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DHM Hotels to Open Units in Évora and Monchique
18 December 2018
DHM (Discovery Hotel Management), the Discovery Portugal Real Estate Fund’s hotel arm, will open two new hotels in 2019 while undertaking major renovations in other units.
The highlight is the future Hotel Perdiganito, 15 kilometres from Évora, a project that was initially developed by former the goalkeeper Vítor Baía. The hotel will be built in an area of 11 hectares and will include 77 rooms and 20 villas.
The Monchique Resort & Spa, formerly operated by Macdonald Hotels & Resorts Portugal, will also open in 2019. Inaugurated in 2010, in the midst of economic crisis, the then Longevity Wellness Resort Monchique bet on what was then a new concept as Portugal’s first resort specialising in anti-aging treatments. The resort was forced to close its door during the crisis and was eventually acquired by the Discovery Portugal Real Estate Fund, which handed over its management to the British chain in the summer of 2016. The experience did not go very well, and DHM decided to assume the management of the health and wellness enterprise. The reopened unit will have 185 rooms and a new conference room.
The DHM brand is divided into three clusters: the Design Collection, Hotels & Resorts and Village & Apartments. The Design Collection includes Praia Verde, Vilamonte, Furnas Boutique Hotel, Azor, Douro 41 Hotel & Spa, Villa C, Santiago Cooking & Nature, Lousã Palace and the future Perdiganito. The Hotels & Resorts segment includes the hotel in Monchique, Éden Resort, Alpinus, Monte Real, Montado and Vale da Ribeira. The Village & Apartments segment has The Quest and Laguna.
DHM also owns the Ramada by Wyndham Lisbon hotel, a Wyndham franchise run by DHM, and the Quinta do Vale Golf Resort (in Castro Marim), a golf course that will eventually include a hotel and residences.
Original Story: Diário Imobiliário
Translation: Richard Turner