Updated on 31/1 at 12 noon - Authors: Arnaud Deltenre and Luc Citrinot for the South-East Asia region
Australia
This year, Sydney's famous Darling Harbour district will no doubt be enriched by the addition ofa new landmark buildingthe Ribbon, with its curved, futuristic silhouette. No doubt because this major project, which includes an IMAX cinema, restaurants and other festive venues as well as a W hotel, has been plagued by delays, mainly due to the bankruptcy of its developer Probuild. But the opening of W Sydney has now been announced for October, for what will be the largest Marriott lifestyle hotel in the world, with 585 rooms and suites and a 1,300 m2.
Another flagship opening expected in Australia's great metropolis, the luxury hotel Capella Sydney, will welcome travellers from March and offer 192 rooms, as well as a signature restaurant, a brasserie, a bar, a swimming pool and, for events, six rooms ranging from 10 to 80 people. All within a setting steeped in historynot far from the famous opera house. The Capella banner is part of the reinvention of the former headquarters of the Ministry of Education, a building that was once the heart of the Opera House.
Another flagship opening expected in Australia's great metropolis, the luxury hotel Capella Sydney, will welcome travellers from March and offer 192 rooms, as well as a signature restaurant, a brasserie, a bar, a swimming pool and, for events, six rooms ranging from 10 to 80 people. All within a setting steeped in historynot far from the famous opera house. The Capella store is part of the reinvention of the former headquarters of the Ministry of Education, an Edwardian-style building constructed in 1915 in the Sandstone Precinct.
A link between the past and the future: with its hotel The Porter House, MGallery had already integrated a listed building last year, a tobacco factory in its early days in the 1870s, to form the basis of its contemporary hotel with 122 rooms and suites. This year, it's Accor's new brand, the Handwritten Collectionwhich will making something new out of something old with the Hotel Morris, a historic hotel from the 1920s housed in a Renaissance-style building that is about to regain its prestige after a complete renovation.
While this collection is also expected on the west coast of Australia, in Perth, with a contemporary hotel, the Wonil, located just a few minutes from the business district, the Accor group is going to strengthen its presence in the region. its leading position in the hotel industry in the Pacific region with several openings in AustraliaThese include a Pullman in Sydney, in the Penrith district, adjacent to the new Western Sydney Conference Centre, and a Mercure in Cairns. The lifestyle brand 25Hours is also expected to open in Sydney and Melbourne in the near future. At the same time, the second city will also see the arrival this year of a luxurious Ritz Carlton, with 257 rooms and suites, from the Marriott group, overlooking the whole of Melbourne from the top of its tower, topped by 80e floor, a sky bar.
China
La China reopens to international tourism, after months of closed borders and a zero covid policyIn addition to this, a number of new hotels are being offered by the major international groups. On the Accor side, for example, Mövenpick will be celebrating its 75th anniversary by opening its first hotel in China at the end of the year, in Qingdao. A first that will be followed by many others, as this inauguration will mark the beginning of a new era in the hotel industry. the master franchise agreement between Accor and the Chinese group Sunmei Digital Intelligence. The joint ambition is to bring 400 hotels under the Mövenpick brand across the country, some of them offering the Mövenpick Living long-stay option.
While Accor is increasingly associating this long-stay dimension At the end of the year, Grand Mercure will set up in Chengdu, within the Western Financial Innovation Center, with a classic Grand Mercure hotel and Grand Mercure Living residences. This is a buoyant segment, as the world leader in the model, Ascott, is due to open Ascott residences in Sanya, Shenzen, Suzhou, Wuhan and Zhuhai this year, as well as Citadines in Chengdu and X'ianA city where its colving lyf brand will also appear. However, as far as Accor is concerned, the major inauguration will take place in Shanghai with the opening, again at the end of the year, of the Sofitel Shanghai North Bunda luxury hotel with 300 rooms and suites where guests can gaze out from the rooftop bar at 25e floor the metropolis' skyline.
Through its close links with the Chinese group JinJiang, another French hotelier has strong ties with the great Chinese metropolis: Louvre Hotels. It is in Shanghai, for example, thatone of the flagships of its Campanile brand was inaugurated in 2018, the Smart Hotel Campanile Jing'An Shanghai. And it is in Shanghai that the budget chain will celebrate the opening of its 500th store in February.e hotel in the world with the Campanile Shanghai Lingang. All this strengthens Louvre Hotels' offering in China, which includes around ten Golden Tulips, some sixty Campaniles and almost 200 Kyriads.
As for luxury brands, Hilton will be pursuing Conrad's expansion in Asia. The American group began 2022 with the inauguration of a Conrad in Shanghai. A new hotel will follow in spring 2023. in Shenzhen, in the heart of the business district. This 300-room establishment with 1500 m2 The hotel's contemporary design by Yabu Pushelberg will make it an ideal venue for meetings and events. Then, later in the year, in the autumn, the Conrad brand will also be heading to Chongqing with a 240-room hotel nestling in the top floors of a new 250-metre-high skyscraper.
While major cities leave plenty of room for new top-of-the-range hotels, notably X'ian with a JW Marriott due soon, a leisure destination like Macau is also reserving new locations for business customers, particularly for meetings and events. The future largest lifestyle hotel in the world AndazHyatt, will be directly integrated into the Galaxy International Convention Center (GICC), huge complex entirely dedicated to MICE. With its 700 rooms and suites, the Andaz Macau will crown this 40,000 m2 with flexible spaces and capacity for 12,000 cocktail guests, in addition to a 16,000-seat arena. Still in the Galaxy complex, but not directly linked to GICC, a prestigious Raffles will also be added mid-year, with 450 sophisticated suites decorated in a contemporary palazzo style.
Japan
When arriving in Tokyo at the end of the year, business travellers will be able to find a Mercure at Tokyo airport. Tokyo HanedaThis is the first international brand to open close to the Japanese capital's closest hub. Just a stone's throw from Haneda Innovation City, this 363-room hotel will offer a practical location for business tripsWith a train station nearby and links to the airport on one side and to Yokohama on the other, and further afield to central Tokyo.
As for the Japanese capital, its hotel news will be marked by the appearance of the Janu brand, little sister of the very exclusive Aman Resorts. With its 122 rooms, the Janu Tokyo is positioned on more affordable rates, but still with a keen sense of design, entrusted to the star architect of Aman hotels, Jean-Michel Gathy. Expected to open at the end of the year in the Toranomon district, the Janu Tokyo will almost coincide with the opening of another new establishment, the Hotel Toranomon Hills. This future member of theHyatt Unbound Collection is part of a new development in the Toranomon Hills business complex, the Toranomon Hills Station Tower. A perfect location for business travellers, this luxury hotel will offer 205 rooms, a two-storey lounge with coworking spaces and meeting rooms, as well as showers to allow travellers to freshen up on arrival or before departure.
While Marriott EDITION's luxury lifestyle brand has already had a hotel in the Toranomon district since 2020, this summer it will be adding a second address in the Ginza district, with a hotel of just 78 rooms and suites, but enhanced by a trendy F&B offering, including a rooftop bar. Where Ginza, Nihonbashi and Yaesu meetThe coliving brand from Singapore's Ascott group will also appear, lyfThe lyf Ginza Tokyo offers travellers a 140-key establishment as well as a coworking space.
For its part, the Asian group Pan Pacific will move into the Tokyo Kabukicho Tower in April, a new skyscraper dedicated to accommodation and entertainmentIn line with the spirit of the Kabukicho district. A theatre, a cinema, a concert hall, restaurants and dance floors galore: the tower will be home to a host of lively venues, with a 500-room lifestyle hotel, the Groove Shinjuku, on its floors, and a 97-room luxury hotel, the Bellustar Tokyo, above. The hotel is topped by a Sky Private Villa, a place with a view of the Tokyo skyline that includes a three-storey restaurant, a spa and five penthouse suites.
For its part, the IHG group will be offering a new boutique hotel in the Japanese capitalThis is the fourth Hotel Indigo in Japan, located at the top of the Dogenzaka Dori complex. The fourth Hotel Indigo in Japan, this establishment is located at the top of the Dogenzaka Dori complex, a 115-metre tower whose first floors will contain shops, then offices and, from the 10e to 28eA 272-room hotel with panoramic views as far as Mount Fuji and an outdoor terrace.
Outside Tokyo, the IHG group is also planning to open a hotel voco in Osaka. Spearheading the brand in Japan, voco Osaka Central will be located in the Higobashi district and will offer 191 rooms. It should be noted that the British group has also welcomed to its portfolio one of the historic hotels in Japan's second largest cityhe RIHGA Royal Hotel Osaka. Opened almost 90 years ago, the hotel has seen all the celebrities who have passed through the city, and offers more than 1,000 rooms, 18 restaurants and bars, as well as 56 meeting and event rooms. The hotel will be undergoing renovation until 2025, at which time it will become part of the new luxury hotel. Vignette Collection.
Singapore
Singapore will also a wave of new openingsranging from the very businesslike to the more lifestyle-oriented, notably with the Mondrian which will open in March in the lively Duxton Hill district, a stone's throw from the Central Business District and the colourful streets of Chinatown. While the Mondrian Duxton Singapore will offer 302 rooms designed by Studio Carter, a collection of trendy bars and restaurants and a rooftop swimming pool, Accor will also be offering business travellers a more corporate hotel in mid-2023, the Pullman Singapore Hill Street, a 342-room hotel located on Hill Street, in the administrative and cultural heart of the city. This will be Accor's second hotel in Singapore, after the one opened in the Orchard Road district.
A showcase for the city with its restaurants and shopping malls, Orchard Road will also see the emergence of a second ConradHilton's luxury brand, within the walls of a former Regent Hotel. The hotel already boasts a dozen bars and restaurants, including the Michelin-starred Summer Palace, as well as 1,500 sq. metres of meeting space.2. However, business travellers will have to wait until early 2024 to take advantage of the space in its 440 rooms, which are currently being renovated.
TheOrchard Road also awaits an EDITION hotel, the luxury lifestyle brand co-developed by Marriott and Ian Scharger. Scheduled for autumn, its 190 rooms, five bars and restaurants, a rooftop pool and 600 m2 of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space. Still near Orchard Road, just opposite the Shangri-La Singapore, a trendy hotel, The Standard, will also open its doors in 2023, with 143 rooms and meeting rooms, and another highlight: an infinity pool surrounded by a tree-lined courtyard.
Singapore will also see the emergence of the Crest Collection of the Ascott Group, with the transformation of the former Riverside Hotel Robertson Quay, which will reopen at the end of 2023 as "The Robertson House by The Crest Collection". With its focus on sustainable development, the destination will also welcome two lush, luxurious urban resorts in the heart of the city, including the Artyzen, a 142-room hotel with a contemporary design topped by a rooftop garden with a 25-metre swimming pool. In the vertical oasis style, the Pan Pacific Orchard goes beyond all limits with its 23 floors organised around four landscaped terraces. Waterfalls, a fine sandy beach, lush green lawns and an abundance of flora: this 347-room hotel is all about the great outdoors, with the top floors of the Cloud Terrace dedicated to corporate events.
Southeast Asia
Among the major metropolises of South-East Asia, Bangkok is as attractive as ever for the development of new establishments. While the openings announced in Singapore are geared towards the very top end of the market, the Bangkok market is still very attractive, those expected in the Thai capital are more varied in style. The IHG group, for example, will be opening both a budget hotel this year, the Holiday Inn Express and Suites Bangkok Central Pier, and an aparthotel, the Staybridge Suites Bangkok Sukhumvit. But above all, the group is preparing to do double duty with the InterContinental brand, firstly with the reopening in the second half of the year of the InterContinental Bangkok, following a renovation that will give the establishment a sophisticated design for its rooms, as well as its event space, equipped with the latest technology in its 19 rooms. In the summer, the brand will also open a new hotel in the Thonglor district, the InterContinental Bangkok Sukhumvit, with 241 rooms, two restaurants, three bars and two meeting rooms.
For its part, the Marriott plans to open seven hotels in the Thai capital this year, including the first member of the Autograph Collection in Thailand, the Madi Paidi Bangkok, and the first appearance of the Moxy brand in Ratchaprasong, where the capital's major shopping centres are located. Among these developments, the American group is also expecting three Marriott Executive Apartments on Sukhumvit and two Courtyard by Marriott hotels, including one at Suvarnabhumi airport.
As for Accor, its budget Ibis Styles chain will open in Bangkok. the world's largest hotel in mid-year, the ibis Styles Bangkok Twin Towers, offering 600 rooms, three restaurants, an outdoor swimming pool and meeting rooms, all just a stone's throw from the business district.
Accor's development is also based on the classic, with a 178-room Mercure hotel in the Sukhumvit district, the mid-range lifestyle with the TRIBE Bangkok Sukhumvit 39, and a 207-key Novotel Living for extended stays. The extended stay segment is another example of the diversity of the hotel offer currently being developed in the Thai capital, with openings expected in 2023 including a Citadines apartment-hotel and a coliving-style lyf from Ascott.
New business hotels on the radar in other major cities in South-East Asia. In 2023, Accor expects, for example, the Novotel Phnom Penh Boeng Keng Kong in Cambodia and the Novotel New Yogyakarta Airport Kulon Progo in Indonesia, the Mövenpick Jakarta Pecenongan and the Pullman Hai Phong in Vietnam. For its part, IHG will see its lifesyle Hotel Indigo brand make its debut in Vietnam with the Hotel Indigo Saigon The City, as well as in Kuala Lumpur, with the Hotel Indigo Kuala Lumpur on the Park. The Crowne Plaza Kuala Lumpur City Centre is also expected to open in the Malaysian capital. As far as long-stay hotels are concerned, the Singaporean group Ascott will be continuing to build up its network in the region's capitals, notably in Jakarta, where preparations are under way for an Ascott, an Oakwood, two Somersets and three Citadines, as well as in Kuala Lumpur, where a Citadines, a Lyf and two Somersets are expected, and in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, where an Ascott and two Citadines are in the pipeline.
