Global hotel operator Accor has announced plans to double the number of rooms under its management in Vietnam by 2012, underlining its confidence in the future of the country’s tourism industry.
Patrick Basset, Accor’s deputy chairman for Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan, told the media in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday that more than 2,000 rooms would be added to the group’s current 2,147 in 13 properties.
“Vietnam is always a strategic market for Accor in the Southeast Asian region.
“With signs of economic recovery and rebound in tourist arrivals, Accor is confident and ready to expand the group’s network in Vietnam.”
The extra rooms will be in nine new hotels that are coming up.
The France-based group plans to open the Le Belhamy Hoi An Resort and Spa, a 131-room resort hotel located on Ha My Beach near the central town on April 1, Thoi Bao Kinh Te Sai Gon Online (Saigon Economic Times Online) newspaper reported.
A five-star, 360-room business hotel under the Pullman brand in Vung Tau and the 111-room Hotel De L'Opera Hanoi will open their doors to guests by the end of this year.
A further 700 rooms will be added two years later when three hotels under the group’s four-star Novotel brand open in HCMC, Hoi An, and Phu Quoc Island.
The largest international hotel operator in Vietnam will also inaugurate the 250-room Mercure Hado Hanoi, the fourth property in the country under the four-star Mercure brand, in 2012.
Accor will bring its three-star Ibis brand to Vietnam with the opening of two hotels with more than 500 rooms in HCMC.
The group’s new hotels are expected to provide around 2,000 jobs, Basset said.
Accor runs 4,100 hotels in 90 countries under 13 brands, including Sofitel, MGallery, and Motel 6.
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