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China hotels

Jin Jiang & Plateno Launch 100 Million Loyalty Platform

2017-01-25 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Chinese tourist

This month the world’s fifth biggest hotel group announced the world’s biggest loyalty group. The combining of Jin Jiang and Plateno Group integrating their member databases creates a loyalty program with 100 million plus members.

Tags: China hotels, Chinese investing, hotels, Jin Jiang, loyalty programs, Plateno Group

The Power of Platinum Town: Plateno Collection 2017 Brands Well

2016-12-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Plateno Collection 2017

Last week China’s biggest hotel brand offered up the Plateno Collection Show 2017 at Pazhou Poly World TradeCenter Exhibition Hall in Guangzhou, China. Held in between December 9th and 12th, the unique hotel brand fashion show pushed the envelope where industry perception of what a hotel should be.

Tags: Alex Zheng, China hotels, hotel fashion, hotel trends, hotels, Plateno, Plateno Collection, Plateno Group

Plateno Collection to Showcase Future Hotel Experience

2016-10-31 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Plateno Collection 2017

Plateno Group, the Chinese hotel entity sporting 20 brands, has just announced it will once again host the hospitality industry’s newest fashion show, Plateno Collection 2017. Running from December 9th through the 11th in Guangzhou China, the event is the second iteration of a “one of” concept envisioned by the group’s founder and CEO, Alex Zheng

Tags: Aley Zheng, China hotels, Europe hotels, hotel fashion, hotels, Plateno Collection, Plateno Group

Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts Plans China Expansion

2012-10-31 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Hotel chain Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts sees a big future for itself in China, with the announcement of yet another a new premises in the Asian country, this time in the city of Changsha, Hunan province.

Tags: Changsha, China expansion, China hotels, Swissôtel, Swissôtel Changsha, Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts

Accor Hotels’ First MGallery in Downtown Doha

2012-04-03 by Phil Butler

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Accor Group, the world’s leading hotel operator with some 4400 plus hotels in 90 countries, has just announced a deal with Qatar’s Msheireb Hospitality for operating the Msheireb Downtown Doha project., an Accor Hotels MGallery hotel in the city’s prime business district. This luxury boutique offering expands upon traditional Qatari hospitality with a truly original thematic scheduled to open in 2015.

Tags: Accor, Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Al Mohannadi, Asia hotels, China hotels, Denis Hennequin, Doha tourism, hotel industry, Ibis, Latin America hotels, Mercure, MGallery, Msheireb Downtown Doha, Novotel, Pullman, Qatar, Singapore hotels, World hotels

The India – China Hotel Room Bottleneck

2011-05-25 by Phil Butler

Spa pool at the hotel

Where growth in the hotel business is concerned, the Asia hospitality sector is overdue for even more spiraling expansion. Believe it or not, China and India are the most underdeveloped hotel markets in the world outside the US, according to a report from STR Global. Accordingly, there are over 100,000 rooms under construction in China and 30,000 in India.

Tags: Chennai Hotels, China hotels, China tourism, Hilton, hotel market, hotels Asia, India hotels, India tourism, Indian Hotels Co Ltd., Marriott, Mumbai Hotels, Oberoi Udaivilas, Rai Bahadur M.S. Oberoi, Rajasthan Royals, Starwood, Taj Hotels, TATA Group, Top Hotels of the World, Top India Hotels

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