Kempinski Hotels

So there's nothing wrong about it.

So me too, if I'm a fine girl and people offer to take me to Kempinski every afternoon, would you be okay with it?

Look, don't let me know.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

[laughs] Where shall I run? I'm so, so useless.

Now somebody's taking me to lunch every afternoon at Kempinski.

Mm.

And you're on the beach.

Or maybe you're staying at the Intercontinental or the Kempinski.

Fine.

And you take like one walk, like one street off the boardwalk.

I mean...

Did

you say it's like Kempinski? It's very Middle Eastern.

Very, very Middle Eastern.

I mean, I think one of us does better at this than the other.

so what ends up happening is we go for a sushi dinner at there was a place in Kempinski that had opened up and amazing food like they they flew in stuff fresh and it was me Rob I think Ranjit yep and Priya

yep

so Ben's like what are we having to drink I'm like I'm not gonna drink he's like what are we having to drink so we start with sake I'm not sure if you guys have ever had sake it you have it warm

And speaking of the accommodation sector, we have to highlight another infuriating data point.

We looked at the island's top-tier hotels, the Kempinski at San Lorenz, Tauchenschen Spa, the Duke Boutique Hotel right in Victoria.

Not a single one of them publishes a standard nightly rate on their public-facing pages.

They offer extensive galleries of the pools, detailed floor plans of the suites, and endless lists of amenities.

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in Vienna at 2:00 o'clock in the morning at the bottom of the Kempinski Hotel.

I've had so many talks with them about these kind of deals.

And, um-

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Kempinski Hotels is seeing departures across its C-suite.

And Airbnb will now pay you if it rains on your vacation.

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Various governments have updated their travel guidance, warning visitors to avoid demonstrations.

Malaysia went so far as to ask citizens to consider postponing non-essential trips.

Next up, a Skift scoop on a leadership exodus at Kempinski.

Barbara Muckermann has left her role as group CEO of the luxury hotel company after nearly two and a half years, according to multiple sources who spoke with Skift.

So you entered the spa industry, no traditional beauty or spa background.

How did coming from a business where you were in marketing influence the way you built Sensasia? And I mean, just to mention this, I had a chance to visit one of your spas at the Kempinski in Dubai.

Did you?

Oh, amazing.

Malaysian tycoon Li Yao Sing is looking to add two more trophy Singapore properties to his portfolio.

His IOI Properties Group is in talks to buy Chimes and the capital Kempinski Hotel in a deal worth about $979 million.

The potential acquisition would deepen IOI's already sizable bet on Singapore property.

The group has snapped up several major assets here in recent years, including South Beach and Asia Square Tower 2, as it builds up its presence in the downtown area.

I believe there's a resort on there or there's something, but the original building is completely flattened.

The Kempinski Hotel.

But they did make a tearoom for Hitler at the top of a mountain.

And when I'm saying from his house, I'm not saying like, "I, o-o- over, can you make one over there just on that different plateau?" No, I'm talking a three-mile drive up the hill, winding through...