The 224 guest rooms includes 16 Plunge Pool Suites, 20 Suites, 56 Deluxe rooms, 30 Family Deluxe rooms, 9 Superior Plunge Pool rooms, 45 Superior rooms and 48 Standard rooms.

Leonardo Hotels thereby increases the number of hotels of their upscale »Royal« brand in Germany to seven.

Gansevoort Playa Imbert will feature 48 suites comprised of one and two-bedroom lofts; three-bedroom apartments with private plunge pools and a collection of four-bedroom penthouses.

Its extensive facilities include indoor and outdoor Olympic swimming pools, a spa with a Turkish bath, a fitness center, tennis courts, 3 conference rooms with a meeting capacity up to 750 guests, 6 restaurants and a cigar bar.

Turnbull has over 18 years of leadership experience in the hospitality industry and has been instrumental in the strategic positioning of Aman Resorts over the past 10 years.

Becker has 30 years of expertise in finance and private equity, most recently as CFO at Summit Hotel Properties Inc., a publicly traded hotel real estate investment trust.

Now owned by Constellation Hotels, the iconic St. Regis Hotel in Rome will continue to be operated by Starwood Hotels under a long-term management contract.

His four decade career has included operational and GM positions in Glasgow, Nairobi, Mombasa, Abuja, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Hua-Hin, Seoul, Bahrain, Dubai, and Riyadh.

A Chicago native, Bennett has overseen the sales and marketing efforts for a number of Chicago area Westin and Wyndham Hotels.