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Pudong’s central financial district. The hotel has 362 guest rooms and suites, 210 serviced apartments, restaurants and meeting venues, including two ballrooms. There is also an outdoor events space for up to 2000 guests.
SHANGHAI On the Puxi side of the Huangpu River, Jing An Shangri-La has opened in West Shanghai. The 508-room hotel is the centrepiece of the new 450,000sq.m. Jing An Kerry Centre. On the fifth level of the centre is the Jing An Grand Ballroom. At 1743sq.m., it is the largest ballroom in West Shanghai, and features a 10m.-high ceiling decorated with glass rods, crystal panels and floating crystal clouds.
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Conference organisers seeking something fresh around Shanghai should head to Sheshan National Travel & Holiday Area on the city’s western fringe. Two attractions in this area offer a point
of difference formeetings –Shanghai Chen Shan Botanical Garden and Shanghai Sculpture Park. Covering about 207ha., the Shanghai
Chen Shan Botanical Garden has 26 theme gardens with more than 1500 indigenous species, and more than 9000 other species of plants and flowers, plus Asia’s largest greenhouse (12,000sq.m.) with more than 3000 species from around the world. A quarry garden features
Shanghai’s only waterfall. There are several meeting venues in the garden’s research centre. Covering 86.7ha., the award-winning
Shanghai Sculpture Park features more than 70 sculptures. Facing Yuehu (Moon Lake) at its
centreis the Homa Moon Lake Hotel of Modern Art, which offers seven inter- national-standard deluxe conference and reception halls, a banquet hall accommodating 1000 people, and 23 suites with natural lighting.
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SHENYANG Grand Hyatt Shenyang has opened in a new 29-storey tower on Qingnian Avenue (known as the “Golden Corridor”). It offers more than 3430sq.m. of meeting and event space spanning the third and fourth floors. The centrepiece venue is the 1022sq.m. Grand Ballroom with an 8m.-high ceiling and feature windows.
SHENYANG Shangri-La Hotel, Shenyang has opened alongside Traders Hotel, Shenyang. Drawing inspiration from Shenyang’s Imperial Palace, the Shangri-La has 424 guest rooms with panoramic city views. The Horizon Club Lounge on the 30th floor has picture windows and a meeting room. The hotel has 4115sq.m. of meeting space over two floors. The main ballroom, pillarless and covering 1900sq.m., has a 9m.-high ceiling and foyer with floor-to-ceiling-windows overlooking Qing Nian Park and the hotel’s landscaped garden. It is the largest hotel ballroom in north-east China. There are seven meeting rooms, with those on level four have natural light and city views. One has a 3015sq.m. garden terrace.
WUJIN DusitD2 Fudu Binhu Hotel Changzhou has opened in Jiangsu Province. It is the Thai company’s first property in China, and has views over West Taihu Lake. It is in the Wujin Hi-Tech Industrial Zone and has four meeting rooms and a pillarfree ballroom.
BALI
Appointed as a hotel for the APEC Summit in October, Ayana Resort & Spa has expanded its ballroom and added more meeting rooms. A private courtyard garden is flanked by six new break-out rooms, including a classroom-style auditorium with tiered seating for 150 people and the latest touch-screen technology. One of the new venues is a 22-seat VIP boardroom.
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BEIJING Opening in October, NewWorld Beijing Hotel is in Chongwenmen commercial district, near Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City andWangfujing. It has 309
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suites and guest rooms, including a 400sq.m. Presidential Suite. There is also 1532sq.m. of meeting, conference and banquet space. Its club features a 1000sq.m. terrace.
QUFU
Shangri-La Hotel, Qufu – the city’s first international luxury hotel – blends Confucian principles, Chinese traditions and contemporary style. Of the 211 guest rooms and suites, those facing Yi River have balconies. Its venues include the 1600sq.m. pillar-free Grand Ballroom with a terrace connected to its 680sq.m. foyer and seven meeting rooms.
SHANGHAI On the bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, the new Mandarin Oriental Pudong is in the heart of
HONGKONG Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo has new convention spaces – the Runway 11 and Runway Suites. The flexible, soundproof venues can seat up to 200 delegates.
HONGKONG Pentahotel Hong Kong, Kowloon, is the first international brand hotel in the Kai Tak area of Kowloon East. The hotel has 695 guest rooms, five meeting rooms, a gym and an outdoor pool.
HONGKONG Hong Kong’s former airport at Kai Tak is now a US$1.1 billion cruise terminal, including conference spaces. It will be a hub for luxury cruise liners.
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