Jumeirah Group this week announced it will manage three upcoming luxury hotels in China.
The Dubai-based hotel company will take on the management of three properties in Wuhan and Nanjing, as well as the Jumeirah Haikou Resort (pictured below), which will sit within an exclusive golf community.
The resort, opening 2018, will be built on a 136 hectare private island near Haikou, the capital of Hainan, which has been monikered the ‘Hawaii of China’ since it is the only non-industrialised province and offers tropical weather.
The development will boast a Tom Doak-designed golf course and 60 luxury residential villas. And the Jumeirah hotel will contain 140 guestrooms and 26 suites, with a lobby lounge, bar, leisure club and a Talise Spa.
Designed by Foster and Partners, Jumeirah Wuhan (pictured below) will open close to Hankou in the city centre and, in addition to the new luxury hotel, will offer high-end office space, retail, private residences and park space. Due to open in 2020, the 200-key property will offer 23 suites, a Talise Spa, indoor swimming and an executive club lounge.
The Zaha Hadid-designed Jumeirah Nanjing (main picture) will be located in the burgeoning Hexi Business District and will be the first of the trio to welcome guests when it opens in 2016. Located just one hour from Shanghai, the 250-room hotel will include 32 suites.
“We are honoured to have been asked to operate these three new hotels in key cities, bringing our pipeline of new properties in China to eight, in addition to Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai, which has been operating successfully since 2011,” said Jumeirah president and CEO Gerald Lawless.
Jumeirah now operates five properties in Asia. The Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai opened in 2011 as Jumeirah's first hotel on the Chinese mainland and, with the addition of Haikou, Wuhan and Nanjing, Jumeirah now has a pipeline of eight properties in China including hotel developments in Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Sanya, Macau and Qiandaohu.