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Carlson Hotels Worldwide
- Asia Pacific has confirmed details of a dynamic expansion of its
portfolio of hotels across Thailand during the next two years. The move will make Thailand one of the largest, most strategic markets in the region for CHW-AP, and a key component in its overall plans to
more than double its current hotel portfolio in Asia Pacific over the next four years.
CHW-AP will open seven new hotels in Thailand across its three core brands
- Regent Hotels & Resorts, Radisson Hotels & Resorts and
Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts - adding more than 1,500 hotel rooms in key destinations including Bangkok and Phuket by 2010. CHW-AP
currently manages the recently opened Park Plaza Sukhumvit Bangkok and has a franchise property, the 448 room Radisson Hotel Bangkok.
"Thailand's hospitality market remains buoyant despite a number of challenges and continues to hold enormous potential for accelerated
growth. It is one of our major focus markets and represents about 10% of the number of hotels currently under development in our Asia
portfolio," said Martin Rinck, President and Managing Director, Carlson Hotels Worldwide
- Asia Pacific.
"We will be introducing our luxury Regent brand in Bangkok and Phuket, which will be signature hotels in the expanding tourism offerings of
these cities. These projects will also contribute to the generation of career and training opportunities for Thai nationals in the hospitality sector."
Four hotels are scheduled to open in Bangkok under the CHW-AP portfolio by the end of 2010. This includes the
Radisson Hotel Bangkok
Sathorn, a 436 room property located in the business district and close to Silom, one of the city's most vibrant shopping and entertainment
areas, and the Radisson Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit, a 170 room property. Both properties are on-track to open next year. Additional openings in
2010 include the 142 room Park Plaza Bangkok Asoke, conveniently located along a trendy and bustling stretch of Sukhumvit Soi 18, and The
Regent Bangkok, a 321 room luxury development also located on Sukhumvit Road.
The resort island of Phuket will see two new CHW-AP managed properties by the end of next year
- Radisson Plaza Resort Phuket Panwa
Beach and The Regent Phuket Cape Panwa to open in 2009. The Radisson Resort & Spa
Krabi
is also scheduled to open at a later date.
"Despite the recent political challenges, Phuket continues to deliver high load factors to airlines and strong occupancy levels to hotels. The
Cape Panwa area, which has retained its tranquil beauty despite extensive development on the rest of the island, is a superb location with a
stunning ocean view of the Andaman Sea, and is most certainly the right fit for our Regent brand,"
Rinck said.
Regent hotels under development in Bangkok and Phuket join a growing portfolio of the luxury brand across the region
- The Regent Maldives
is planned to open in the first half of next year, The Regent Manila Bay in the Philippines by 2010 and The Regent Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia by
2011.
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