This roundup features the latest hotel deals and developments in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

South Africa-based private equity company Kasada has teamed up with development firm Luxury Green Resorts and sovereign wealth fund Fonds Gabonais d’Investissements Stratégiques to open hotels across Gabon, including in the West African county’s coastal Baie des Rois site in capital Libreville.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is to open on Sept. 29 the 131-room Rosewood Munich in mansion Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, the former headquarters of the State Bank of Bavaria. It is the firm’s sixth hotel in Europe and eighth in the EMEA region.

Hard Rock International and owner Mercan Properties are to develop the 275-room Hard Rock Hotel Algarve near Praia do Vau, Portimão, Portugal. Construction is due to start early next year, with the opening planned for 2026. The property also will have 150 branded residences.

Bangkok-based S Hotels & Resorts has bought the freehold of the 91-room Mercure Glasgow City from real estate investment trust Alternative Income for 7.5 million pounds sterling ($9.5 million). Its United Kingdom portfolio now consists of 27 hotels and approximately 2,940 rooms.

The 57-room Broadwick Soho is to open in November on the corner of Broadwick and Berwick streets in the Soho district of London. Its owners say the hotel has a range of inspirations, including the Jazz Age, Italian travels and English eccentricity.

Another hotel soon to open in London is the 199-room BoTree, managed by Place III Hotels, at a point where the city’s West End joins Marylebone. It is to debut on Sept. 15.

Hotels package-travel giant TUI is set to open next year seven hotels in its in-house TUI Blue brand, including the 140-room TUI Blue Tamala and 84-room TUI Blue Kotu Point, both in The Gambia.

Red Carnation Hotels has said its 30-room 100 Princes Street hotel in the Scottish capital Edinburgh will begin welcoming guests on Nov. 1 in the former Royal Overseas League building.

Ennismore, the luxury and boutique division of Accor, plans for a 2025 opening of the 175-room Mama Shelter Liverpool in the George Henry Lee Building that since the 1940s has housed a branch of department store John Lewis. Landlab, based in Dubai, is the owner.

Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts opened on Aug. 28 the 89-room Dornoch Station in the Scottish Highlands north of Inverness and will, on Sept. 1, open the 180-room Slieve Donard adjacent to the Royal Country Down Golf Club, Northern Ireland.

IHG Hotels & Resorts and owner Sharjah Asset Management will open in 2027 the 191-room Voco Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. SAM is the investment division of the government of the emirate of Sharjah. A deal also was signed with Beirut-based firm DIA SARL to operate the 123-room Voco Beirut Central District in the Lebanese capital.

The Radisson Red brand has debuted in Eastern Europe with the 111-room Radisson Red Tbilisi, Georgia, in a century-old building that has been up to now a post office.

Whitbread PLC opened at the end of July the 80-room Premier Inn London Camden, part of its Hub by Premier brand, in north London.

Owner Fragrance Group has appointed RBH Hospitality Management to manage its 72-room The Grand Atlantic Hotel in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England. It is the 11th hotel that RBH is to manage under its partnership with Fragrance.

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