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    Regent Resurgent

    Sep 06, 2022 5 minutes
    by Chris Schalkx
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    CHRIS SCHALKX

    AH, REGENT. The name did ring a bell. Wasn’t it this past-its-prime hotel group my now-retired parents would have loved back in the 1980s, if only they had been wealthy and well traveled? I have stayed at one of their properties once, in Taipei. And while my weekend there was perfectly fine, it was as forgettable as any stay in a somewhat dated and rather beige business hotel could’ve been. As a millennial reaching adulthood in an era where trailblazers like Edition, Rosewood, and Alila constantly reshape the luxury hotel experience, you’ll have to forgive me for thinking that Regent’s heyday was long behind us.

    It wasn’t always that way. Founded in 1970 by hospitality kingpins Robert Burns, Georg Rafael, and Adrian Zecha (who went on to create the Aman group in the late ’80s),

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