SPAIN’S Meliá Hotels International will next year take on its eighth hotel in China and first in Shanghai, located in the city’s Hongqiao district.
Meliá Shanghai will be part of a new urban complex called Lido Way, developed by the Shanghai Golden United Construction & Development, which will also include shopping and entertainment centres and up-market housing.
As well as offering convenient connections with the Hongqiao airport and train station, the hotel will be close to the new national convention and exhibition centre.
The 190-room hotel will offer two restaurants, meetings rooms and an executive lounge.
“Hongqiao is expected to become the new centre for West Shanghai and the main business nucleus for the Yangtze delta region,” said a Meliá spokesperson. “With this first hotel in Shanghai, the objective is to keep pushing (our) presence in China and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.”
Meliá opened an office in Shanghai in 2011, aiming to promote brand awareness while the company expanded in China, and build up links with Chinese groups.
