The Switzerland-based luxury hotel company Kempinski announced that it is adding 6,000 rooms in Beijing through a joint venture with the Beijing Tourism Group. The first 1,200 rooms will be across two properties with exclusive access to the Universal Studios Beijing theme park: the Universal Studios Grand Hotel and the NUO Resort Hotel-Universal Beijing Resort. The properties are scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2021. The remaining 4,800 rooms will be added to the resort in additional hotels.
Kempinski announced in October plans to grow to more than 100 hotels by 2021 from its then total of 79. "Overall, we are fully on track with our hotel openings," said Kempinski CEO Martin Smura in a statement. "In the next 18 months, we will open 15 hotels with 3,888 rooms." Smura added that the company is currently under negotiations to buy several hotels, three of which will be in Germany.
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