4,000-room hotel will open in Macao in December 2008 – Hotel development boom caused by the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

On 08.08.2008 at 08:08pm the opening ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will begin. The Olympiad has an outstanding importance and influence on tourism development in the Public Republic of China and many hotels will be opened until August next year: 109 hotel projects (from 80 to 3,500 rooms) are counted by tophotelprojects.com, the leading online database for global hotel projects. Tophotelprojects.com, a subsidiary of the international CHD Expert Group, globally features more than 1,100 hotel projects.

The largest hotel project for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is the Beijing Marriott Hotel with 615 rooms (opening in February 2008). The largest hotel project overall in PR China is the Sheraton Macao Hotel with nearly 4,000 rooms, which will be opened in December 2008.

The top 8 hotel projects in PR China are:

1.                  Sheraton Macao Hotel, Macao
3,985 rooms
Management: Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Scheduled opening: December 01, 2008
Special features: 3,728 rooms und 257 suites,
2 health clubs, 2 swimming pools, spacious SPA,
5 restaurants; Co-development with
Las Vegas Sands Corp.; Designated to the „Las Vegas of Asia“

2.                  Dong Fang Zhi Men, Suzhou near Shanghai
3,500 rooms
Management: N.N.
Scheduled opening: December 01, 2007
Special features: more than 440 million Euro budget; largest hotel in Central China; Importance for tourism development to World Expo 2010 Shanghai

3.                  Platinum Coast SPA Holiday Inn Hainan
2,300 rooms
Management: HNA Hotels & Resorts
Scheduled opening: October 01, 2007
Special features: largest resort project on Hainan Island

4.                  The Venetian Macao
1,500 rooms
Scheduled opening: October 01, 2007

5.                  Fairmont & Raffles Macao
1,200 rooms
Scheduled opening: January 15, 2010

6.                  Hong Kong International Airport Marriott Hotel
1,000 rooms
Scheduled opening: August 15, 2008

7.                  Traders Hotel Macao
1,000 rooms
Scheduled opening: January 01, 2008

8.                  Macao Studio City Marriott Hotel
968 rooms
Scheduled opening: January 01, 2009

August 2007 / Source: tophotelprojects.com / CHD Expert Group

Hotel Development Boom for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Until the beginning of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on 08 August 2008, 109 hotel projects with 80 to 2,300 rooms will be opened in PR China. 17 projects are located in the region of Beijing. The three largest hotel projects are:

1.                  Beijing Marriott Hotel City
615 rooms
Scheduled opening: February 08, 2008

2.                  JW Marriott Hotel Beijing
588 rooms
Scheduled opening: November 01, 2007

3.                  Renaissance Beijing Fuli
540 rooms
Scheduled opening: March 15, 2008

August 2007 / Source: tophotelprojects.com / CHD Expert Group

About tophotelprojects.com

Where are the new four and five star hotels around the world? For FF&E and market researches all important construction and renovation projects of the leading hotel industry are listed on www.tophotelprojects.com. Today, over 1,100 projects worldwide (and about 400 projects in Europe and more than 260 hotel projects in Germany) are part of the online database tophotelprojects.com. All data is updated monthly by CHD Expert Group, which started this service two years ago.

“For hotel market and project researches tophotelproject.com offers a 24h service with attractive terms,” says Andreas Rohde, sales manager of tophotelprojects.com. The annual fees are: Global access (more than 1,100 projects) – EUR 2,500 per year / US-$ 3,300 per year; Europe access (ca. 400 projects) – EUR 1,500 per year / US-$ 1,980 per year; German access (more than 260 projects) – EUR 750,00 per year / US-$ 990 per year.

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