When will Shangri-La in Yangzhou open?

2012. For details, please refer to the official website of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts.

Press Release

Shangri-La Sisters settled in Jiangsu and debuted in Nanjing and Yangzhou in 2012

May 5, 2010

Shangri-La Hotel Group It was announced today that two new hotels will be opened in Nanjing and Yangzhou in 2012. Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts currently has six hotels in the Yangtze River Delta region, and two more will open in the next two years. Together with the two Jiangsu hotels announced this time, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts will have a total of ten hotels in the region.

Nanjing Shangri-La Hotel

It is located in Gulou District, overlooking Xuanwu Lake. Shangri-La Hotel, Nanjing will draw on local historical and cultural characteristics in its exterior design. The hotel has 670 guest rooms, each with an area of ??more than 45 square meters. The interiors are modern, comfortable and equipped with Shangri-La's signature beds.

Shangri-La Hotel, Nanjing will become the city's center for business negotiations, entertainment and socializing. The hotel provides different styles of dining venues: a rooftop restaurant with beautiful views of the city, a unique Chinese restaurant, a lobby lounge overlooking the lake, an all-day buffet restaurant, and multiple specialty restaurants. The hotel also has a series of meeting venues such as the Horizon Club executive floor, an indoor swimming pool, a fitness center with spa facilities, and a 2,000-square-meter banquet hall.

Nanjing is 300 kilometers away from Shanghai. It is the capital of Jiangsu Province and an important transportation hub city in my country. Nanjing has many places of interest, such as Confucius Temple, Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum on Purple Mountain, Linggu Temple and Linggu Pagoda, and Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, which is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In addition, Nanjing is also the center of electronics, information technology, petrochemicals, automobile manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, bioengineering and pharmaceutical industries.

Yangzhou Shangri-La Hotel

Yangzhou welcomes its first international high-end brand hotel - Yangzhou Shangri-La Hotel. The hotel is located in the central business district of Yangzhou and has 371 guest rooms, all with an area of ??more than 42 square meters, and the super deluxe rooms have an area of ??63 square meters.

Yangzhou is the birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine. The hotel's Chinese restaurant not only offers local specialties, but also Cantonese cuisine and Cantonese dim sum. In addition, the hotel will feature three restaurants and bars, a Horizon Club lounge, an indoor swimming pool, tennis courts and a fitness center. Banquet and conference facilities include a 1,540-square-meter grand ballroom and other multi-purpose rooms.

Yangzhou is located northeast of Nanjing, at the junction of the Yangtze River, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Huaihe River. It has been the political, economic and commercial center of China since ancient times, and its history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago. There are more than 500 historical places of interest here, including Slender West Lake, Daming Temple, He Garden and Ge Garden, which are famous for their Qing Dynasty architecture. During the Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties, Li Bai, Su Shi and many other literati called Yangzhou their home.

Yangzhou is a pioneer city in environmental protection and has invested a lot of money in protecting the Yangtze River ecosystem. Moreover, Yangzhou is also the center of solar energy application technology. In addition, other major industries in Yangzhou include shipbuilding and other transportation manufacturing, high-end manufacturing, textile industry, and clothing production industry.

The development of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts in the Yangtze River Delta region

Mr. Du Kaigen, President and CEO of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, said: "Shangri-La has been operating hotels in the Yangtze River Delta region for 25 years. We have managed a hotel in Nanjing before. We are very familiar with the area and Nanjing, so we decided to invest and develop our own hotel here. We look forward to showing Shangri-La's warm hospitality to the people of Nanjing again. In order to introduce Shangri-La's excellent services to Yangzhou, with the Shanghai World Expo held, the whole world is focusing on Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. We are honored to receive guests and friends from all over the world here and contribute to the development of this region. A force.”

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is the largest luxury hotel group in mainland China. Currently, the group has six hotels in the Yangtze River Delta region.

The group's first hotel in mainland China was in the Yangtze River Delta region, the Shangri-La Hotel in Hangzhou, which opened in 1984. In 1998, the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai opened, becoming the earliest international hotel to open in Pudong New Area. Today, Pudong has become China's financial center; In the past few years, hotels under Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts have opened in Changzhou, Suzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo.

In addition to the Nanjing and Yangzhou projects announced this time, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts will continue to invest and develop in Shanghai. The group will open its second and third hotels in Shanghai in 2010 and 2012, namely Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai and Jing'an Shangri-La Hotel, Shanghai.

Editor’s Tip:

Since the Tang Dynasty in the 9th century AD, the Yangtze River Delta has been my country’s commercial and trade center. Today, the Yangtze River Delta has a population of over 80 million and a GDP of US$2 trillion. With the recent opening of the Shanghai World Expo, the area has attracted 50% more investment than before and is expected to receive approximately 70 million tourists.

Shangri-La, the largest luxury hotel group in the Asia-Pacific region headquartered in Hong Kong, currently has two brands: the luxurious Shangri-La Hotel and the Traders Hotel designed for the mid-range market, with a total of 66 hotels The hotel has more than 30,000 guest rooms. In addition, the group has more than 40 new hotel projects under preparation, mainly in Austria, Canada, mainland China, France, India, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Qatar, Seychelles, Turkey and the United Kingdom. For further information or reservations, please contact your travel agent or visit the Shangri-La Group website at www.shangri-la.com.

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