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The Royal Hawaiian closed on June 1, 2008, for renovation. It reopened on January 20, 2009 [10] as a member of The Luxury Collection. An extended renovation of the Royal Beach Tower was completed in 2010. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, [11] the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Keauhou area includes the Outrigger & Spa at Keauhou Bay, built in 1975, the 22.9-acre (93,000 m 2) Keauhou Shopping Center, two golf courses, timeshare, residential and resort condominiums and single-family residences. [6] The largest convention center in Kona is located at the Sheraton, just South of the bay. [7]
Construction on the resort's golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones, [9] began first, on August 8, 1963. Construction on the hotel began on January 4, 1964. The golf course opened on February 1, 1965, while the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel itself opened on July 2, 1965, operated by Rockefeller's hotel company RockResorts.
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In 1907, Jack London and his wife Charmian sailed to Hawaii, learning the "royal sport" of surfing and travelling by horseback to Haleakalā and Hana, as chronicled in his book The Cruise of the Snark. 1929 saw 22,000 tourists visit Hawaii, while the number of tourists exceeded 1 million for the first time in 1967. [26]
When it opened in 1999, the all-suite Burj Al Arab set the bar for luxury hotels in Dubai – and still offers an experience that (whisper it) not even its ritziest rivals can emulate.