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The Luxury Collection opened Amoh on 28 April 2026, its first property on Rhodes, on a peninsula at Kavos Beach in Pefki near Lindos. The resort has 197 rooms and suites, eight restaurants and bars and two beaches.

Hilton opened Waldorf Astoria Rabat-Salé on 5 May 2026, the brand's first hotel in Morocco, in the Mohammed VI Tower, Morocco's tallest building. The hotel has 55 rooms and suites, five dining venues and a collection of nearly 7,000 artworks.

Lululemon's first Greek store opened at Akadimias 17 and Voukourestiou in Kolonaki, central Athens, with franchise partner Arion Retail Group; a second followed at Golden Hall in June.

Accor's Raffles opened Raffles Jeddah in late May 2026, with bookings from 25 May, its second hotel in Saudi Arabia after Raffles Makkah Palace. The Corniche hotel has 182 guestrooms, including 40 suites, each with Red Sea views.

The Westerly, a 161-room boutique-style oceanfront tower at Hilton Aruba Caribbean Resort & Casino, officially opened on 28 May 2026 with adults-only swim-up rooms and a rooftop terrace.

Lululemon entered Romania with a store at Băneasa Shopping City in Bucharest, its fourth new market of 2026 through franchise partner Arion Retail Group.

Lisa Vanderpump's first hotel, a 188-room remake of The Cromwell operated by Caesars Entertainment, held its grand opening on 11 June 2026 opposite Caesars Palace.

The St. Regis Costa Mujeres Resort, Cancún opened in late June 2026 with 163 rooms and suites and 86 branded residences, designed by Sordo Madaleno on the Mexican Caribbean coast.

Hoshino Resorts opened the 48-suite HOSHINOYA Nara Prison on 25 June 2026 inside the 1908 former Nara Prison, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property, after about seven years of restoration.

Four Seasons Hotel Mykonos opened for its first summer season in June 2026, the brand's second hotel in Greece, with 94 rooms, suites and villas over six hectares above Kalo Livadi Bay. The resort has a private beach, two infinity pools and four restaurants and bars.

Universal Kids Resort opened on 1 July 2026 in Frisco, Texas, a standalone park for young children with lands based on Shrek, SpongeBob, Jurassic World, Minions, Trolls, Puss in Boots and Gabby's Dollhouse, plus two family coasters.

The Bolliger & Mabillard giga dive coaster opened on 9 July 2026 after a delay from 26 June, rising 309 feet with a 285-foot drop, four inversions and a top speed of 87 mph.

Aldi Belgium opened a 1,200 m2 store at the former Shopping Cora centre on Drève Olympique in Anderlecht, the first of three Aldi stores in ex-Cora malls and a rare move by the discounter into Belgian shopping centres.

Hilton and Mitsubishi Estate opened the 170-room Conrad Nagoya on 31 July 2026 on the upper floors of The Landmark Nagoya Sakae, the brand's third hotel in Japan and its Nagoya debut.

Amanvari, Aman's first resort in Mexico, opened on 1 August 2026 within the Costa Palmas community on Baja California Sur with 18 casitas and private pools.

Banyan Group opened Banyan Tree Mount Emei on 1 August 2026 in Sichuan, a 130-room resort whose rooms and villas each have a private hot-spring pool, at the foot of the UNESCO-listed Mount Emei.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $360 million in the US and Canada over 31 July to 2 August 2026, the largest opening weekend ever, ahead of Avengers: Endgame's $357.1 million.

Lululemon entered Austria with a 200 m2 franchise store on Vienna's Kärntner Straße, its fifth new market of 2026 with Arion Retail Group.

Universal's Intamin launched spinning coaster, with cars modelled on the franchise's hero vehicles, opened officially on 16 September 2026 after a soft opening on 27 July and a slip from its summer target.

1 Hotel Austin, the brand's first hotel in Texas, opened on 18 September 2026 inside the 74-story Waterline tower with 252 rooms and suites.

George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.

Austin's first major theme park, a 30-acre amusement park at Circuit of the Americas with 34 attractions including five roller coasters, officially opened on 26 September 2026, four years after its first announced date.

Hilton says Waldorf Astoria Kuala Lumpur opens on 30 October 2026 with 268 all-suite rooms in the Golden Triangle, the brand's first hotel in Malaysia. Suites run from 80 to 745 square metres, with restaurants tied to Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Garima Arora.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts says Fairmont New Orleans opens on 2 November 2026 with 250 rooms and suites in 17 floors of the former Bank of New Orleans tower. It is the brand's first New Orleans hotel since the Fairmont closed after Hurricane Katrina and its 19th in the USA.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

Lululemon's first Indian store, run by franchise partner Tata CLiQ, is due at DLF Promenade in New Delhi this autumn, with the brand going live on Tata CLiQ Luxury and Tata CLiQ Fashion at the same time.

Hilton's Waldorf Astoria London - Admiralty Arch, the 114-room hotel and residences in the Grade I-listed landmark opposite Buckingham Palace, says it will open in autumn 2026, with reservations from 1 March 2027. Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud will run its restaurants.

Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

Disney's 1 October 2026 press kit for Walt Disney World's 55th anniversary confirms Tropical Americas at Disney's Animal Kingdom opens in 2027, replacing DinoLand U.S.A. with an Encanto dark ride, an Indiana Jones thrill ride and a carousel.

Auberge Collection's first London hotel, Cambridge House at 94 Piccadilly, is preparing for a February 2027 opening with 102 rooms, 24 of them suites, in the Grade I-listed former In & Out club. Jean-Louis Deniot designed the hotel and Major Food Group runs the restaurant.

Disney announced on 27 August 2026 that Disney's Lakeshore Lodge opens July 1, 2027 with 967 rooms on Bay Lake at the former River Country site. Bookings opened to the public on 8 October 2026.