Bangkok--5 Feb--eTurboNews Partnerships with and ResortQuest Hawaii offer visitors convenient hotel packages to attend this year’s spring shopping and fashion festival Ala Moana Center, the world’s largest open-air shopping center and Hawaii’s largest shopping destination, today announced partnerships with three outstanding hotels to offer travel packages for the center’s first annual spring fashion and shopping event “Shop a Le‘a,” which will run March 3-9, 2008 . The shopping packages, which are designed to appeal to shopping and travel enthusiasts who want to plan their next visit to Honolulu around the launch of Shop a Le‘a, will offer amazing room deals, value-added elements and a number of surprise bonuses — exclusively at the Ala Moana Hotel, ResortQuest Waikiki Sunset and the ResortQuest Waikiki Beach Tower. “Through exclusive partnerships with Ala Moana Hotel and ResortQuest Hawaii, Ala Moana Center makes it convenient visitors to experience our new spring shopping festival, Shop a Le‘a, as well as all of the great things our mall has to offer,” said Sharon James, General Growth Properties regional vice president of marketing. “For those who have been looking for a reason to visit Hawaii, Shop a Le’a is the perfect opportunity for travelers to participate in a one-of-a-kind destination fashion and shopping event set against our island’s beautiful landscape and weather.” Shop a Le‘a, presented by Ala Moana Center, is Honolulu’s first major week-long spring fashion and shopping festival. The event will present fashionistas from Hawaii and across the Pacific with myriad experiences in fashion, beauty, active lifestyle, home entertaining, family, travel and cuisine. Shop a Le‘a features high-profile fashion shows, Hawaii regional cuisine demonstrations and lifestyle seminars at Centerstage, in-store trunk shows and product demonstrations, center-wide gift-with-purchase incentives, numerous shopping and dining offers, and a sweepstakes offering a grand prize euphoric shopping vacation for two to New York City, plus much more! ShopaLe‘a coincides with the grand opening of the center’s new multi-million dollar retail expansion on Friday, March 7, featuring Hawaii’s first Nordstrom department store and 30 new shops!