News about hotels

BANGKOK (April 8): Best Western Hotels & Resorts signed its largest ever multi-hotel agreement with real estate developer AD Houses Co Ltd, which will lead to the opening of four Best Western Plus hotels in Thailand this year.

PETALING JAYA (April 1): Sunway Hotels & Resorts, the hospitality arm of property-construction conglomerate Sunway Group, will invest RM875 million to facilitate the redevelopment and expansion of its hotels across Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam.

PETALING JAYA (March 23): Binastra Land Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Binastra Group, is in talks with AccorHotels Group to bring in a new hotel brand to its upcoming mixed development ION at Jalan Sungai Besi, said Binastra Land executive director Datuk Ong Theng Soon.

DOHA (Feb 29): Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts welcomed a new hotel in Doha, Qatar – the Shangri-La Hotel, Doha, the latest addition to its line of existing hotels – on Feb 23.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 24): Genting Malaysia Bhd (Genting Malaysia) is raising its investment to RM10.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 16): Singapore-listed property developer Oxley Holdings Ltd (Oxley) has announced it will open its 207-room So Sofitel Hotel and a 590-key So Sofitel Residences in the heart of Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) area in 2020, it said in a press statement today.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 10): International hospitality group Best Western Hotels & Resorts opened its first hotel in Faisalabad, Pakistan -- its third hotel in the country.

  SINGAPORE (Jan 6): GuocoLand Ltd and AccorHotels have signed a deal for the management of GuocoLand’s two newly-built hotels: the Sofitel Singapore City Centre at Tanjong Pagar Centre, Singapore, and the Sofitel Kuala Lumpur Damansara at Damansara City, Kuala Lumpur.

BANGKOK (Dec 16): Best Western Hotels & Resorts recently launched the Best Western Plus Eastern Palace hotel in Mandalay, Myanmar.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 10): The east coast Malaysian state of Kelantan will soon have another five-star hotel.