SHANGRI-LA, the Hong Kong based hotel and resort group best known for its very up-market hotels including the Island property in Hong Kong, the China World in Beijing and the luxurious Shangri-La Singapore, says that it is defiantly coming to London which is its European headquarters.
Although in the past Shangri-La has hinted at a west end property, speaking at a gathering during WTM Martin F Waechter, chief marketing officer, said that serious negotiations were under way with a site destined for a new build hotel ready for 2008.
In the meantime the group was further expanding in China, 17 currently open with more under way, and also in the Middle East with a Traders business hotel recently opening in Dubai, a new Doha property well on its way and resort hotels under construction in the Maldives and Oman.
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