Published on : Friday, June 1, 2018
This strategic partnership was formalized during a signing ceremony in Shanghai with Hilton CEO Christopher J. Nassetta and the representative from Country Garden.
It sees an initial six hotels owned by Country Garden now trading as Hilton branded properties or in the pipeline. As one of China’s largest property developers, Country Garden has an existing portfolio of over 120 hotels in trading, under construction, and planning.
A Country Garden Hotels Group representative said that the Country Garden, as the practitioner of China’s new urbanization process, has been striving to meet peoples’ demands for increased quality of education, tourism, and life as a whole. In cooperation with Hilton, Country Garden built two highly-regarded benchmark city hotels in Wuhan and Foshan, Hilton Wuhan Optics Valley and Hilton Foshan. These have now become the best choice for local tourists to do business and spend their vacation in quality comfort.
There are new hotels included in the partnership deal include DoubleTree by Hilton Hainan Lingshui; DoubleTree by Hilton Guangzhou Zengcheng; and Hilton Zhengzhou Xingyang.
Hilton currently has more than 470 hotels either trading or under development in China, with 266 being actively under construction.