SINGAPORE-based COMO Hotels and Resorts will develop and manage a new property on the Yamu peninsula of Phuket, scheduled to open in September 2012.

The property will be the ninth COMO destination, and the group’s second Thai property after the Metropolitan in Bangkok, said vice president of business development Harry Apostolides.

Located in Phang Nga Bay on Phuket’s north-east coast, 20 minutes from Phuket International Airport, the resort will offer 129 rooms with views of the cape and Andaman Sea, a 100m swimming pool, a COMO Shambhala Retreat with yoga studio, two restaurants and a private beach.