HOSPITALITY services company the Outrigger Enterprises Group is to manage a new luxury collection of residences, villas, town homes and apartments being developed by Laguna Resorts & Hotels in Laguna Phuket, located on Bang Tao Bay on the northwest coast of Phuket, Thailand.
The new collection will be named Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas. When fully built, it will consist of 309 two, three and four bedroom units, many with their own private swimming pools. The first units will be ready for occupation in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Laguna Phuket is a 1,000 acre mixed-use tropical resort with five miles of sandy beaches, six deluxe resort hotels (Banyan Tree Phuket, Sheraton Grande Laguna, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, Laguna Beach Resort, Allamanda Laguna Phuket, Laguna Holiday Club Resort), the Laguna Phuket Golf Club, spas, restaurants and bars as well as a retail shopping centre.
Laguna Resorts & Hotels, a public company, developed the Laguna Phuket Resort in the mid-1980s from the remains of an abandoned tin mine once thought to be too polluted to develop. Laguna Phuket has since won numerous environmental awards as a result of that successful effort.
“We are excited to work with Laguna Resorts on this great new luxury product that they are building in the prestigious Laguna Phuket destination resort,” said David Carey, president and CEO of Outrigger Enterprises Group.
Michael Ayling, managing director of Laguna Resorts & Hotels said, “We’re delighted to announce the opening of Laguna Phuket’s seventh resort, Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas. We’re positive that Laguna Phuket will greatly benefit from Outrigger’s quality management services of Laguna Village.”
About half of the 309 units have been completed, with the remaining units scheduled for completion in 2011. Amenities at the new resort will include a beach club, private clubhouse, fitness centre, tennis courts, an Angsana spa, as well as retail shops and restaurants.
It will be the group’s third property in Phuket, in addition to properties in Chalong Bay and on Mai Khao Beach.
“Phuket and Bali are the top leisure resort destinations in Asia and we now have five resorts open or under development in those two locations,” said Carey.