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Hospitality Design

For more than 80 years, WATG has designed luxury hotels, resorts, and destinations that connect guests to place. Grounded in rigorous strategy and deep domain expertise, we create culturally significant destinations that endure.

Lagen Island Resort, El Nido

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Our knowledge, appreciation, and respect for culture are what enables us to create moments of hospitality like no one else.

WATG and Wimberly Interiors bring together advisory, master planning, architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture expertise to shape destinations that are authentic to place. We immerse ourselves in the culture, history, and ecology of the places we work.

Four Seasons Hotel Cartagena facade, cream neoclassical building with ornate detailing and a vintage black convertible parked at the entrance. — Four Seasons Hotel & Residences Cartagena

the art of hospitality design

For over 80 years, we’ve held an unwavering commitment to design innovation and excellence. We make it our responsibility to continually expand the art and craft of hospitality design, amplifying guest experience and delivering long-term client success. We work at the intersection of commercial rigor and creative ambition, designing experiential places that nurture and awaken the imagination, inviting a feeling of escape, relaxation and discovery.

True luxury in the modern age has shifted; the places we create allow for memories to be made and serendipity to weave its magic.

“A poetically-expressed sense of place, escapism into the quietude, and reconnection with oneself . ”

— Chiara Calufetti-Lim, Principal & Studio Director, Architecture

Trends

Hospitality Design Trends 2026

WATG Advisory explores five trends that will influence how hospitality owners, operators, and developers shape their assets in 2026 and where the strongest value creation opportunities lie. Read the article.

Trends

Onu Restaurant by Wimberly F&B, dining room with a dramatic ceiling installation of clustered woven basket pendants above leather banquettes, cane chairs, and zellige-tiled walls.

Our Legacy

WATG was founded in Honolulu in 1945, at a moment when the Pacific tourism industry was just beginning to define what luxury travel could mean. Since then, we’ve designed more than 700 built projects across more than 170 countries and territories, working alongside the world’s most respected hotel brands and independent developers.

Independent to this day, we are a global integrated design firm specializing in Advisory, Master Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design. We are a team of creative, world-traveling professionals designing landmark urban and leisure destinations with nine offices globally.

“The ecological inventory of a site tells us where the real value is, and that becomes the armature everything else is organized around. ”

— Ashley Scott, Global Practice Principal, Landscape Architecture

Our Work

Prestigious, groundbreaking, and highly successful, our work has positioned us as the global leaders in integrated luxury hospitality design. From luxury island resorts and urban hotels to mixed-use entertainment destinations and property renovations, our work spans every typology in the hospitality spectrum.

Regent Bali Canggu — a dramatic dusk arrival pavilion with a timber-louvred façade, a glowing sculptural floral installation behind, a lantern-lined timber boardwalk, and flanking reflecting pools. — Regent Bali Canggu

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We immerse ourselves in culture and create connections that expose, celebrate, and lift places and customs.

We work with clients who value originality, collaboration, and the art of hospitality. They share our belief that modern luxury is experiential and authentic, and that the foundation of long-term success is built with considered vision, innovative yet timeless design, and an unrelenting respect for local cultures and their natural environments.