Phuket Island Thailand : New Management at Laguna Beach Resort Hotel

Outrigger Hotels and Resorts declared today that it has reached an agreement to acquire the 254-room Laguna Beach Resort, located on Bang Tao Bay on the northwest coast of Phuket Island, Thailand

Phuket, Thailand / NationalTurk – Outrigger Hotels and Resorts announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire the 254-room Laguna Beach Resort, located on Bang Tao Bay on the northwest coast of Phuket Island, Thailand

” Laguna Beach Resort is a perfect fit for ‘our first major investment in the Asia-Pacific region”, said Darren Edmonstone, Outrigger’s Asia-Pacific managing director.

The transaction is scheduled to close in the first quarter of 2013.

Phuket Island Thailand  : New Management at Laguna Beach Resort Hotel

Details on how much the resort was purchase have not been mentioned in the press release.

“The Laguna Beach Resort will be one of the brightest jewels in the Outrigger portfolio and we look forward to completing the renovations and opening this resort early next year,” said Darren Edmonstone, managing director of Outrigger Enterprises Group – Asia-Pacific.

Originally established in 1991, the Laguna Beach Resort Phuket Thailand will be the second Outrigger property at the Laguna Phuket resort complex, joining the Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas, which it has managed since August 2009.

“After managing a property in the Laguna Phuket destination resort for nearly three years, we are confident that the Laguna Beach Resort is a perfect fit for our first major investment in the Asia-Pacific region. We look forward to continuing to expand the Outrigger brand to other major resort destinations as well,” added Darrev Edmonstone.

Laguna Resorts and Hotels PCL, a public company listed on the Thailand stock exchange, developed the Laguna Phuket integrated 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. Phuket Island is a highly sought after tourist destination in Thailand.