GENERAL Hotel Management (GHM), which saw its Malaysia portfolio wiped out – Seri Carcosa Negara and The Club at Saujana Resort in Kuala Lumpur are also now managed by Archipelago Hotels & Resorts (see story Datai: ‘business as usual’) – is charging ahead with new projects in Malaysia.
GHM president and CEO, Hans Jenni, said these include The Chedi Club & Residences, Kuala Lumpur (opening in 2014) – a 200-acre development comprising luxury residences, a hotel and a sports centre – as well as a project in Johor Bahru and another in Sabah.
The group is also going into Europe, India and China for the first time.
“The Chedi Andermatt (2013) will be unlike anything Switzerland has ever seen or experienced before; The Chedi Qutub in New Delhi (2014), with its location within a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be quite the original; and The Chedi Suzhou in China (2012) will represent our very first truly urban hotel,” he said.
The pipeline also includes Chedis in Amman, Jordan (2013), Tamouda Bay, Morocco (2013), Thracian Cliffs, Cape Kaliakra, Bulgaria (2014) and Taiping Lake, Anhui, China (2014).
In the latest development, Jenni revealed that an MoU for the development of two hotels in Cuba had been signed.
– Read more in TTG Asia, August 5 issue
