InterContinental Moorea closing permanently, with pandemic delivering the killer blow

The InterContinental Moorea Resort & Spa in the French Polynesia will close permanently, with its business suffering hugely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The resort’s area general manager Guillaume Epinette cited “unforeseeable market conditions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.”

“The global health and economic downturn resulting from the novel coronavirus has had an exceptionally devastating impact on the travel and tourism industry,” said Epinette in a statement.

“The permanent closure of the InterContinental Moorea Resort & Spa has been a very hard but carefully considered decision taken to preserve our other hotels within Pacific Beachcomber hotel group.”

Pacific Beachcomber Hotels owns three other InterContinental resorts in French Polynesia: InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa, InterContinental Bora Boar Resort & Thalasso Spa and InterContinental Bora Bora Le Moana Resort.

Those three properties and the InterContinental Moorea have been shuttered since late March due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Tahiti and Bora Bora resorts are expected to reopen on June 30.