Great New Hotels for 2009 : Kathika Travel Website

We recently took a look at the hotel trends we’re predicting for 2009, but Forbes has taken it one step further and honed in on specific hotels to make their world’s best new hotels list. There’s a pretty good chance that some of these places will be hot in the next year:

Chicago’s coming-soon Trump International Hotel and Tower has already got a lot of hype, and although it was supposed to be opening in December, we’re guessing that a 2009 debut is more likely. And then we’ll be hearing a lot more about it.
In more exotic locations the Hasdrubal Prestige Hotel is new on the island of Djerba in Tunisia, northern Africa – this is a great vacation spot that’s already popular amongst European holidaymakers, and with a few more fancy hotels will become a well-known destination on a world-wide scale. There’s also the Azura Lodge in Mozambique, one of those places with plunge pools and infinity pools galore – plenty of reasons to visit.
Two hotels from the Four Seasons chain made it into the Top 50 of the new hotels list: one was the Four Seasons Hotel Firenze in the tourist-magnet city of Florence, and the second was the Four Seasons Resort Provence at Terre Blanche in France.
Speaking of chains, there are also two hotels from St Regis on the list, both in Asia – the St Regis Bali and the St Regis Singapore. They’re quite different markets but the predictions are that these new places will become very popular.
Over in Britain, the myhotel concept is taking off and that has put the myhotel in Brighton on the list of hit hotels for 2009. Elsewhere in Europe, a new hotel in Munich called the Charles Hotel, near the Botanical Gardens, is apparently pretty luxurious.
And further away Down Under in Queensland’s capital Brisbane, a new Australian hotel that is on the list to become popular fast is the Emporium. It’s a boutique hotel – all the rage in many places right now but especially in Australia – and it’s a place that seems to have a bit of life in it.
Finally in Paris, everybody’s dream destination, there are a couple of picks for great new hotels. One is the Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere which overlooks the Champs Elysees; another is the Hotel Keppler, close to the Arc de Triomphe, a relatively small boutique hotel with less than 40 rooms.

Wherever you’re hoping to travel to in 2009, there’s bound to be a hot new hotel nearby, so do your research and find somewhere a bit special to stay.