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Building
upon its legacy as one of the city’s most well-known and historical hotels,
RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka, Vignette Collection offers a renewed guest experience
for today’s thoughtful venturer, offering one-of-a-kind stays in a destination
to remember.
RIHGA
Royal Hotel Osaka, Vignette Collection stands within Nakanoshima, known
as “City of Water”, an area described as a microcosm of the 24hr
international city of Osaka. Since its inception in 1935, RIHGA Royal Hotel
Osaka has been dedicated to creating a space that is fitting for international
and cultural exchanges with foreign dignitaries, imperial families, and
celebrated VIPs amongst the hotel’s guests.
Now,
following an extensive renovation project, RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka, Vignette
Collection unveils over 1,000 newly remodelled rooms, including a stand-out
700m suite, together with 18 unique restaurants and bar, fitness centre and
comprehensive event facilities featuring 56 banquet rooms. Globally renowned
Japanese fashion designer Junko Koshino has also been appointed to design the
new uniforms now worn by hotel colleagues.
RIHGA
Royal Hotel Osaka recently choreographed its own one-of-a-kind take on the
traditional ribbon cutting to mark its grand opening as a Vignette Collection
hotel. The ceremony featured an original Japanese tenugui hand towel, dyed
using the traditional Osaka “Chusen” technique, which is for
colouring fabric by pouring dye on top of the fabric. The tenugui hand towel,
inspired by the rivers surrounding Nakanoshima, symbolised the forging of a
long-lasting partnership between RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka and IHG Hotels &
Resorts as together they embark on a shared journey toward a global future.
Abhijay
Sandilya, Managing Director – Japan & Micronesia for IHG Hotels &
Resorts, and CEO of IHG ANA Hotels Group Japan, said: “We are thrilled to
officially introduce Vignette Collection as our 10th brand in Japan, marking a
significant milestone in our rapidly expanding portfolio. RIHGA Royal Hotel
Osaka perfectly embodies Vignette Collection, a brand that is on track to achieve
100 hotels globally within its first decade. The hotel exemplifies the true
spirit of a collection brand— offering its own unique identity while sharing a
common vision of providing travellers with an authentic, one-of-a-kind
experience, all enhanced by the advantages of IHG One Rewards.”
Just
three years after the brand’s introduction to IHG’s leading luxury and
lifestyle portfolio, one of the world’s largest, Vignette Collection has
surpassed the halfway point in its initial aim to reach 100 open and pipeline
hotels in 10 years. Central to Vignette Collection is the balance of
individuality and belonging. A family of like-minded hotels, each Vignette
Collection property is entirely individual in its identity, yet united by the
vision to offer a more authentic way to travel.
Vignette
Collection combines each property’s individual identity with the brand’s
collective vision to offer a more authentic travel experience. Each property is
unique, yet united through key hallmarks ‘Memorable Rituals’ and ‘A Means For
Good’.
Memorable
Rituals – celebrate each Vignette Collection property’s unique identity,
providing purposeful and meaningful travel encounters that connect guests with
the hotel’s cultural landscape. RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka, Vignette Collection
embraces Japanese tea culture, music, and entertainment inviting guests to
experience “Furumai-cha”. This traditional tea ritual is accompanied by a
majestic rendition of Japanese classical music, performed on a Steinway &
Sons SPIRIO piano and is held daily in the hotel’s Main Lounge every afternoon
from 3-5pm.
A
Means For Good initiatives see each Vignette Collection hotel partner with
a chosen non-profit organisation, working in partnership to spearhead positive
contribution to the local ecosystem across responsibility, community, and
locality. RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka, Vignette Collection will support secondary
and high school students in need with a programme of educational activities to
promote their self-development.
Earlier
this year, Vignette Collection announced a global partnership with the World
Literacy Foundation, directly supporting the foundation’s mission to eradicate
illiteracy by 2040. The global partnership furthers the brand’s philanthropic
outlook in complement of each hotel’s individual A Means For Good. Each
Vignette Collection property is a unique story to be told but they come
together as a library of hotels, united by a collective vision to harness
travel’s ability to benefit people and place.
Strategic
acquisitions and new brand launches over the past five years have transformed
IHG’s presence in Luxury & Lifestyle. The portfolio has expanded from one
to six brands, spanning more than 500 properties in over 70 countries, making
IHG’s collection one of the largest in the world.
Vignette
Collection is IHG’s first collection brand and represents a curation of
distinct hotels demonstrating diversity and discovery. It offers a compelling
way for owners of one-of-a-kind hotels to benefit from IHG’s powerful
enterprise offering and global scale, whilst enabling guests to discover
intriguing individual properties that unlock IHG One Rewards best-in-class benefits.
For
more information about RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka, Vignette Collection, Vignette
Collection, visit IHG.com/vignettecollection
Image
Credit: © IHG Hotels & Resorts
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