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Accor`s Novotel Citygate to establish Tung Chung as one of Hong Kong`s growth centres in 2006

Accor has signed a management agreement for a new Novotel Citygate Hong Kong, located in…

Accor has signed a management agreement for a new Novotel Citygate Hong Kong, located in the new Tung Chung business centre, just a few minutes from Hong Kong International Airport. The hotel is scheduled to open early 2006.

Novotel Citygate is the first new-build Novotel in Hong Kong, but joins two other Novotels that were added to the Accor group after it acquired the Century hotel network five years ago. Accor also operates the Ibis North Point and Headlands Hotel at the airport.

Accor’s Chief Executive Officer for Greater China, Brian Deeson, said Novotel Citygate gives Accor an even higher profile in one of Asia’s key business and tourism hubs.

“The opening of the Novotel will play an important role in highlighting the growing importance of Tung Chung as a business precinct, conference venue and tourist base. We anticipate the hotel becoming a major venue for conferences and functions, especially as it is so convenient to the international airport and transport links into Hong Kong and across to China.”

“Air traffic to Hong Kong is likely to grow sharply over the next two years, and with the hotel’s proximity to tourist attractions such as Disneyland and the Big Buddha, the Novotel will be an ideal base for short-term leisure breaks. The opening of the Novotel is part of a region wide expansion of the brand. New Novotels were officially launched in Singapore and Jakarta recently, and next year new Novotels will open in Malaysia, China and India.”

“Novotel has also been selected as the exclusive hotel for two high-profile airport openings in 2006 – the new Baiyun Airport Guangzhou and Bangkok’s new international airport. It highlights how appropriate the brand is for such key transport and business centres.”

Mr Deeson said that the addition of Novotel Citygate Hong Kong was part of a massive expansion of Accor’s China hotel network, which would see the existing network of hotels almost double from 28 to almost 50 hotels by the end of 2007.

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