Tophotelprojects.com®: Over 500 new top hotels worldwide will be opened in the next months
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Tophotelprojects.com®: Over 500 new top hotels worldwide will be opened in the next months
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Catégorie : Monde - Économie du secteur
- Projets hôteliers
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Every month about 150 new first class and luxury hotel projects will be revealed
Obviously luxury is still a selling point with new hotel construction projects. More than 500 new first class and luxury hotels with nearly 200,000 rooms will be opened worldwide in the next months. According to tophotelprojects.com® 28 percent of the hotel openings happen in Europe, 27 percent in North America and 41 percent in East Asia. Most of the 32 largest hotels (over 500 rooms) will open in Asia. The biggest is the Las Vegas Sands’ project Marina Bay Sands Hotel Singapore with 2,600 rooms.
Some of the most interesting new hotels (to be opened in early 2009) are:
* Planet Hollywood Towers L.A./USA (1,228 rooms, www.westgateresorts.com/planethollywoodtowers/)
* Shangri-La Hotel (636 rooms) & Traders Hotel (1,239 rooms) Macao/China (www.shangri-la.com)
* W Hotel Fort Lauderdale, Florida/USA (482 rooms, www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1522)
* Palazzo Versace Dubai/UAE (215 hotel rooms, www.palazzoversace.ae)
* Andel’s Hotel Berlin/Germany (557 rooms, www.andelsberlin.com)
Announcement of 170 new hotel construction projects in last 4 weeks
tophotelprojects.com® disclosed more than 170 new hotel construction projects with over 36,000 rooms in November and December. A sample of new top hotel projects:
* Scandic Hotel Hamburg/Germany (325 rooms, opening scheduled for 2011)
* InterContinental Resort & Spa Marrakech/Morocco (180 rooms, opening scheduled for 2011)
* Clarion Hotel Arlanda near Stockholm/Sweden (400 rooms, opening scheduled for 2010)
* Fairmont Resort & Spa on Corfu Island/Greece (240 rooms, opening scheduled for 2012)
* St. Regis on Saadiyat Island near Abu Dhabi/UAE (280 rooms, opening scheduled for 2010)
„After the first climax of the financial crunch, of course we watch the hotel projects market even more closely“, Rolf W. Schmidt, managing owner of tophotelprojects.com® reported. „Up to now we noticed only a few delays or even aborts of hotel construction or modification projects.” The number of the recently announced hotel construction projects show that top hotel investments have not been hit by the financial crisis yet.
Main facts of tophotelprojects.com®
* Number of hotel projects worldwide: 3,070 (with 753,929 rooms)
* Number of hotel rooms per project in average: 249
* First class hotel projects: 1,515
* Luxury hotel projects: 1,368
* Projects by regions:
Africa 120
Asia 1,009
Europe 1,165
North America 703
Top hotel project of the month: Cruise liner “Queen Elizabeth 2”
Project name: QE2
Operator: Nakheel Hotels
Location: Dubai/UAE – The Palm Jumeirah
Hotel type: luxury hotel
Number of rooms: 200
Scheduled opening: 2012
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