From eco-conscious concepts to advanced wellness hotels and futuristic architectural elements, these luxury destinations are one step ahead in the innovation game.
LOW-TECH LUXE: HOTEL TERRESTRE – OAXACA, MEXICO
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The latest addition to Grupo Habita’s family of lifestyle hotels, Hotel Terrestre champions slow living aimed for guests to disconnect from technology. This blissful escape in Oaxaca puts the spotlight on Mexico’s beauty through a bold architectural design that beautifully blends with its surrounding environment and is then juxtaposed with low-tech sustainable efforts by operating completely off the grid using 100 per cent solar power.
HIGH-TECH WELLNESS HAVEN: LANSERHOF TEGERNSEE – TEGERNSEE, GERMANY
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With healing as its core concept, Lanserhof, one of the leading luxury wellness spas in the world, offers a host of holistic and advanced medical-based fitness programmes, detox treatments, and innovative holistic diagnosis such as genetic analysis and capsule endoscopy. This modern health resort situated in the Bavarian Alps leads the way in pioneering regenerative health and wellness.
SUSTAINABLE STAY: ALILA ULUWATU – BALI, INDONESIA
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Alila Uluwatu sets the standard in sustainable tourism. This picture-perfect property perched on a cliff in Bali, Indonesia dramatically impresses with its savannah-like architectural design aesthetic. Beyond the beauty and luxury it delivers, Alila Uluwatu integrates eco-friendly concepts and practises into place within its daily operations – from the private villas constructed with locally sourced materials such as bamboo and lava rocks that help minimise electric consumption to its on-site Sustainability Lab initiative.
WELLNESS IN THE CITY: ONE&ONLY ONE ZA’ABEEL – DUBAI, UAE
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Set to open in March 2024, the Longevity Hub at Clinique La Prairie at urban vertical resort One&Only One Za’abeel, combines evidence-based medicine and pioneering aesthetic to deliver ultra-personalised wellness solutions to address the daily stressors of urban living. Spread over three floors, The Hub comprises of 29 treatment rooms for wellbeing and clinical therapies; a Movement Studio with state-of-the-art gym facilities; a Longevity Bar; and the region’s first Longevity Index Lounge, which boasts cutting-edge solutions including the Neuro Wave Stimulation – a tech-guided acoustic and vibrational therapy that enables even the busiest of minds to enter a deep state of relaxation.
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A FUTURISTIC CITY STAY: HOTEL MORPHEUS – MACAU, CHINA
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This futuristic architectural vision by design genius Zaha Hadid combines ultra-luxury and innovation in the form of 772 guest rooms and suites equipped with cutting-edge technology. From its dystopian-like exoskeleton steel frames to best-of-the-best amenities, Morpheus delivers an opulent experience like no other property in Macau or the world.
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