WORLDHOTEL & Residences Makati has severed ties with independent hotel collection Worldhotels, and will be dropping the brand name and support services that came with it.
The 252-key hotel and 149-unit residences project is owned by China Oceanis Group of Companies, led by its Singaporean president and CEO, Lim Chee Yong, through H2O Ventures.
A source within the company told TTG Asia e-Daily that the property – scheduled for a late 2015 or early 2016 opening – will no longer wear the brand name or receive sales, marketing and reservations support from Worldhotels.
Hotel H2O in Manila, likewise owned by H2O Ventures, also quit Worldhotels as of March.
TTG Asia e-Daily understands that internal changes within H2O Ventures were a main factor in the breakup, and a separate source has it that the owning company is mulling joining up with E-HORS reservations system and replacing the Worldhotel name with Seven Seas for the Makati project.
Neither Worldhotels nor Lim could be reached for comment.
China Oceanis plans to construct a Seven Seas Hotel in Palawan and Seven Seas Hotel & Residences in Boracay, having already set up C2G Hospitality and Consultancy in the Philippines in preparation for the above, said the source.
Worldhotels has two member hotels in the Philippines, the boutique Le Monet in Baguio City and the recently opened Hotel Luna, a museum hotel in UNESCO World Heritage Site Vigan in Ilocos.
