Jumeirah faces further delay in Shanghai
DUBAI – The Jumeirah Group may not open the first of six hotels it plans for China until May next year.
The Dubai hotel management group had hoped to open the 338-room Jumeirah Han Tang Xintiandi hotel in Shanghai’s financial district in late 2008 but delays with the project have pushed back the opening.
Jumeirah now hopes to open in time for next year’s World Expo in Shanghai
The Jumeirah Group has 14 hotels under construction, including those in Phuket and the Maldives, and has a target for 60 hotels under management by 2012.
It manages 11 hotels, eight in Dubai including the flagship Burj al Arab, as well as the Carlton Tower and Lowndes hotels in London, and Essex House in New York.
Lawless said that in its home market of Dubai, Jumeirah had seen a 20 percent fall in first quarter room revenue.
Dubai had become accustomed to “great occupancies and great room rates†but the group now had to adapt to new realities, he said.
“We have to realign our people’s expectations that business won’t just walk in the door. We have to go out and get it and maintain the customer base and loyalty that we have spent 10 years building.â€
Ian Jarrett
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