Olympics generate hotel development boom in China

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:

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

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

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

The Venetian Macao

1,500 rooms

Scheduled opening: October 01, 2007

Fairmont & Raffles Macao

1,200 rooms

Scheduled opening: January 15, 2010

Hong Kong International Airport Marriott Hotel

1,000 rooms

Scheduled opening: August 15, 2008

Traders Hotel Macao

1,000 rooms

Scheduled opening: January 01, 2008

Macao Studio City Marriott Hotel

968 rooms

Scheduled opening: January 01, 2009

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

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