Jumeirah Group announces trio of Chinese hotels

Jumeirah Group is to continue its expansion in China with three more luxury hotels and resorts under development across the country and opening over the next six years.

It has signed management agreements for Jumeirah Haikou Resort, on a private island in Hainan, Jumeirah Wuhan in a city centre location near Hankou, and Jumeirah Nanjing in the new Hexi business district.

Both properties in Wuhan and Haikou are owned by subsidiaries of Yuexiu Group, a Guangzhou-based property development company, and the addition of all three brings Jumeirah's China pipeline up to eight properties.

“We are delighted to be expanding our portfolio of hotels and resorts in China, which is a significant market for Jumeirah,” said Jumeirah Group president and CEO Gerald Lawless.

“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.”

The Jumeirah Haikou Resort is set within a golf community on a 136 hectare private island and is expected to open in 2018. Haikou is the capital of Hainan, which has the distinction of being the only non-industrialised province and only tropical island resort destination in the country.

As well as a golf course designed by Tom Doak, the resort will have 60 luxury residential villas and a luxury hotel with 140 guest rooms including 26 suites.

Among the F&B outlets will be an all-day dining and Chinese specialty restaurant, lobby lounge and bar, while the property will also have function space, recreational facilities such as a premier leisure club lounge, kids’ club, fitness centre and Talise Spa. Denniston International has been appointed as the project architect.

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Jumeirah Wuhan is set in a prime city centre location near the existing Hankou business district and will be part of a mixed-use development comprising high-end office space, retail, residences, parks and a luxury hotel. Site preparation work is ongoing and the anticipated opening date is 2020.

Designed by Foster and Partners, it will feature 200 guest rooms including 23 suites, an all-day dining and Chinese specialty restaurant, lobby lounge, bar, function space, executive club lounge and business centre. Recreational facilities will include a fitness centre, Talise Spa and an indoor swimming pool.

The third property, Jumeirah Nanjing, is expected to open in 2016 and will also be part of a mixed-use development comprising office and retail space, a conference centre, and another four-star hotel.

Designed by architect Zaha Hadid, the 250-room hotel will include 32 suites, an all-day dining and Chinese specialty restaurant, café, lobby lounge, tea lounge, bar, junior ballroom, executive club lounge, business centre, fitness centre, Talise Spa and an indoor swimming pool.

Jumeirah currently operates 22 hotels, resorts and residences, including 11 in the Middle East, six in Europe and five in Asia. A further 17 hotels are now under development. The Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai opened in 2011 as Jumeirah's first hotel on the Chinese mainland. 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.