Six Senses is renowned for its focus on wellness and sustainability, with each hotel and resort set in locations of … IHG's acquisition of Six Senses makes it a power player in the $60 billion luxury market.
IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has welcomed a new family member to its portfolio of brands, with the acquisition of Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas. Each Six Senses property has a touch of quirkiness and natural playfulness that comes from a desire to do something a little out of the ordinary. Sleep With Six Senses, Eat With Six Senses and the latest Grow With Six Senses childrens’ initiative have all been highly successful in helping people (young and young at heart) to learn something new and reconnect with themselves, others and the world around them.The beating heart of every Six Senses property is a Six Senses Spa, working in harmony with each hotel and resort to create a depth of personalized wellness support. Six Senses becomes the newest addition to one of the world’s leading hotel companies. Each spa offers a menu of Six Senses signature treatments and therapies plus locally-inspired specialties, yogic programs and a range of feel-good pamperings. © InterContinental Hotels Group 2020From remote islands and sapphire lagoons to urban adventures and mountain retreats, Six Senses creates places to reconnect, in harmony with the local environment.Each Six Senses property has a touch of quirkiness and natural playfulness that comes from a desire to do something a little out of the ordinary. Whether it’s dive spots and jungle trails, sunset cruises or dining on locally grown food on a deserted sandbank, guests have the choice to be active or gloriously inactive.Stay, play and create those perfect moments that become lasting memories. Through its acquisition of Six Senses, 16 luxury hotels and resorts will soon join the IHG portfolio.
The dream list also includes a desert hideaway in Israel’s Negev Desert, the transformation of a series of 19th-century mansions in Istanbul and the group’s first project in North America, a contemporary duo of twisting towers designed by Bjarke Ingles located in Manhattan’s West Chelsea neighborhood and along the High Line. The model can be adapted and still retain all the sustainable commitments for which Six Senses has become the industry inspiration.IHG purchased the award-winning hospitality and wellness company from private equity fund Pegasus Capital Advisors for USD 300 million. Additional projects are currently under way in Austria, Brazil, Mainland China, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and Thailand.IHG’s Chief Executive Keith Barr said, “IHG’s growing portfolio of luxury brands is a collection of the very best in the travel industry. Each Six Senses property has a touch of quirkiness and natural playfulness that comes from a desire to do something a …
The sale includes the management of 16 hotels and resorts, 37 spas and sister companies Evason and Raison d’Etre. The heart of each property is its spa, with a high-tech, high-touch approach guiding guests on their personal path to well-being.