Hotel product development, from concept to operation.

Concept, interior design, FF&E curation and implementation. The project is followed through until the hotel is ready to operate.

Areas of work

Boutique Hotels

Few keys, a character of their own, and personal service built into the product.

Nature Lodges

High-standard accommodation inside protected landscapes, with conservation, sustainable operation and a sense of rest built out of the place itself.

Luxury Pousadas

Small scale, a high standard of service, and an experience tied to the place.

Retrofit

Bringing existing structures up to date without stripping their character, listed buildings included.

Pre-Opening

Getting the product and the teams ready so the hotel opens fit to operate.

Natural pool ringed by dense rainforest, the trees reflected on the surface

How the work unfolds

01

Hospitality Design

Concept, positioning, interior design and guest experience. It settles what the hotel is, before any decision on site.

02

FF&E Curation

Turns the concept into a buyable list, area by area, with selection, specification and supplier recommendations.

03

Hotel Implementation

Prototype room, OS&E, installation, styling and pre-opening. The stage where the project becomes a working hotel.

Portrait of Raquel Zanchet

Raquel Zanchet has been developing hotel product since 1997, across the Amazon, the Pantanal, the Cerrado and Bahia. The team is multidisciplinary and assembled per project, working directly with architecture, branding, commercial and the hotel operation.

See the track record
Wrought iron headboard and white pillows in a room at Zank Hotel Boutique Projects Fallen trunk in the Amazon rainforest lit in red, crossed by a thin white neon line Collab

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