Category: Travel & Leisure

Despite financial turmoil in Dubai the Jumeirah hotel group, which is based there, is still expanding its hotel portfolio in China.

New Nikko hotel for Xiamen in two years time followed by another in Guangzhou.

Over the 10 years since Macao’s return to the People’s Republic of China in 1999, the former Portuguese colony has witnessed nothing less than an economic miracle. Macao’s gross domestic product (GDP) tripled during that period and reached $21.48 billion in 2008, growing at an average rate of nearly 15%.

Raffles, which started in Singapore, will in March 2010 open a new hotel at the top of the Tianjin Center.

France’s Club Med aims to drive forward its shift upmarket next year with plans to enter China.