Best Western Hotels & Resorts has signed three hotels in Japan, all on track for opening in 4Q2017.
The company secured license agreements for the 105-room Best Western Osaka Tsukamoto, 60-room Best Western Sapporo Odori-Koen and a conversion project in Honshu, the Best Western Yamagata Airport with 94 rooms.
Osaka, Japan
These follow the recent opening of the 105-room Best Western Tokyo Nishikasai Grande, Best Western’s third property in the Japanese capital, and the rebranding of The Hotel Nagasaki to become Asia’s first operating BW Premier Collection hotel.
The new additions would bring Best Western’s Japan portfolio to 15 properties.
“Japan’s tourism industry is booming. Having welcomed a record total of 24 million international visitors last year, the government is now targeting 40 million arrivals by 2020 – the year Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympic Games – and a staggering 60 million visitors by 2030,” commented Olivier Berrivin, Best Western Hotels & Resorts’ managing director of international operations – Asia.
