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Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has signed an
agreement with Chongqing Guest House Co. Ltd. to manage a hotel in
Chongqing that is scheduled to open in late 2011. The 469-room
Shangri-La hotel will occupy the first 28 floors of a new
58-storey landmark building, a multi-purpose complex incorporating
office space and retail outlets.
Designed by East China Architectural Design
Institute, the hotel will be located in the central business
district, 45 minutes from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport
and an eight-minute walk from the Chongqing People's Liberation
Monument, the commercial centre of the Yuzhong District and the
largest pedestrian street in Western China.
The hotel will feature some of the largest
standard guestrooms in the city with a minimum room size of 45
square metres. Guestrooms will feature urban views, and upper
floor guestrooms as well as the Horizon Club executive lounge will
feature river views. In addition, the hotel will offer a diverse
range of dining and entertainment options, including a Chinese
restaurant, specialty restaurant, lobby lounge and an all-day
dining outlet, in addition to a spa and health club, swimming
pool, lounge, hair salon and an entertainment centre.
The
new Shangri-La hotel will have 2,000 square metres of meeting and
banqueting space, including a 1,000-square-metre ballroom with
12-metre high ceiling, which will be the largest ballroom in the
city, complemented by 10 function rooms to cater to different
event requirements. A business centre with multi-purpose function
rooms will also be available to suit the needs of corporate
clients and meeting organisers.
"As one of mainland
China's most robust economies and with the strong economic ties
between Chongqing and Chengdu, where we already have the
Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu, it is a natural step for Shangri-La to
open a hotel in Chongqing to further strengthen our presence in
the region. As China's largest luxury hotel group, we look forward
to bringing world-class hospitality experiences to business and
leisure guests in Chongqing," said Madhu Rao, managing director
and chief executive officer, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts.
A renowned ancient Chinese city with more than 3,000 years of
history, Chongqing is located on the banks of the Yangtze and
Jialing Jiang rivers, and filled with scenic and picturesque hills
and mountains. With over 30 million citizens of Han nationality
and 49 other ethnic minorities, Chongqing is a hub of cultural
diversity and is the birthplace of the Bayu culture, a special
ethnic culture found along the upstream of the Yangtze River.
Chongqing's pillar industries include machine building,
metallurgy, chemicals, environmental protection, food and tourism.
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