Centara Expands to Laos

Centara Hotels & Resorts will manage its first hotel in Laos in 2017 with the opening of the five-star Centara Grand Hotel in Vientiane.

Located in the downtown district of the Laotian capital, the hotel will adopt a French colonial design theme.

Centara will manage the new-build property under a management contract.

Thirayuth Chirathivat (4th left), chief executive officer of Centara Hotels & Resorts and Ekaphanh Phapithack (4th right), chairman of Simoung Group and Joint Development Bank shaking hands after signing a hotel management agreement for Centara to manage the new Centara Grand Hotel Vientiane. The ceremony took place at Lotus Suite 10, Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld.

The 200-room hotel, owned by Simuong Group, will cost Bt1.5 billion (US$46.2 million) to build.

“We are very proud of the fact that our top-tier Grand brand is expanding,” said Centara Hotels & Resorts chief executive officer Thirayuth Chirathivat.

“The brand is carrying our unique style of Thai hospitality into new markets, backed by the confidence of international investors.”

“Vientiane is an exciting destination for us, and it joins our Grand branded properties in Maldives, Vietnam, Bali, Mauritius, Shanghai, Addis Ababa, Doha and, of course, Thailand.”

Including the Vientiane property, Centara has a total of 20 Grand hotels.

“Laos is a natural market for us, being a direct neighbour of Thailand, and we are delighted that we shall have a five-star hotel in the centre of downtown Vientiane,” said Centara Hotels & Resorts senior vice president for sales and marketing Chris Bailey.

“This will add to our marketing strength in Southeast Asia, providing an exciting new destination for our large customer base around the world and adding to the opportunities for our business partners.”

Centara Grand Hotel Vientiane will have 200 rooms and feature Centara’s five-star facilities, including two restaurants, a Spa Cenvaree, a Kids’ Club, swimming pool, fitness centre and meeting facilities, including a ballroom.

Centara Hotels & Resorts is Thailand’s leading operator of hotels, with 46 deluxe and first-class properties covering all the major tourist destinations in the kingdom.

A further 20 resorts in Maldives, Vietnam, Shanghai, Bali, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Ethiopia, Qatar and Laos brings the present total to 66 properties.

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New floating hotel opens in Myanmar

Myanmar Ports Authority says the first ever floating hotel will open its doors in Botahtaung harbour near Yangon by the end of this year.

It will not be the first. That honour went to a floating hotel owned and managed by Centara Hotels and Resorts (previously called Central Group) that ran a 120-cabin converted cruised ship, anchored permanently in Yangon’s harbor.

It was towed from the harbor after about five years in the late 1990s and eventually ended up in East Timor and other areas where temporary accommodation was needed. Central Group sold the ship.

Local media in Yangon said Hla Hla Pa Pa Company won the approval to invest in the floating hotel project. It will import a 2,000 tonne engine-less vessel from Finland that will be converted into a hotel.

The vessel was towed to Myanmar Shipyards 18 August for extensive renovations that will give it 104 double rooms with attached bathrooms, two dining rooms and bars.

The Yangon Port Development expanded Botahtaung port on the Yangon River last year.

Two floating hotel are currently under construction in Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar. Once completed, they will be anchored on the Ayeyawaddy River and cater to foreign tourist. There is a shortage of hotels in Mandalay and rates are very high at an average US$250 a night.

A three-deck floating hotel with an engine to allow it to move between sites will be located near Mayangyan Port in Mandalay. A third floating hotel may be sited on the eastern shore of Kandawgyi Lake, Yangon.

Company sources say they intend to have the accommodation open in time for the 27th SEA Games in December about six week from now.

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New Centara’s Vietnam Sales Office to be opened

Centara Hotels & Resorts has opened a sales office in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

The office will support Centara’s hotels in Vietnam, which currently number two, with a third soon to be added, and help raise the profile of its properties in Thailand, Bali, Shanghai, the Maldives, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.

The new Ho Chi Minh office is headed by Nguyen Thuy Y Nhu, who was most recently Business Development Manager at Nagaworld Cambodia.

“Our strategy is to increase the number of our own sales offices throughout the Asia and Indian Ocean regions and in other key markets,” said Chris Bailey, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing at Centara Hotels & Resorts.

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Centara takes over management at Sandy Beach Resort in Da Nang

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From Threeland Travel's Blog - October 2012

Centara Hotels & Resorts will from October 11, 2012 assume the management of Sandy Beach Non Nuoc Da Nang Vietnam by Centara, marking the company’s second resort in Vietnam. The property will undergo renovations and upgrading, a process that is expected to undertake one year, during which the resort will remain open, and upon completion will be renamed Centara Sandy Beach Resort Da Nang.

Centara will operate the resort under a management contract signed on August 27, 2012 with owner the Ben Thanh Non Nuoc Resort Corporation, a company that is under the umbrella of the Ben Thanh Group.

“We are delighted to add this beautiful resort to our portfolio, and we greatly appreciate the confidence and trust that the Ben Thanh Group has in us,” said Thirayuth Chirathivat, Chief Executive Officer of Centara Hotels&Resorts.

“This is our second resort property in Vietnam, which we feel is a very exciting tourism market, and this represents a strategic step in our expansion plans,” he added.

Sandy Beach Non Nuoc Da Nang Vietnam is a four-star, 118-room resort hotel located within 17 hectares of gardens on the beachfront at Non Nuoc Beach, Da Nang.

Room types are 61 standard, superior, and deluxe; 52 bungalows; and 5 villas.

The upgrading plan will increase the number of rooms by 80, taking the total to 198 rooms.

The history of the resort dates back to 1993 when, as the only state-owned luxury hotel in Da Nang, it was used to host 40 competitors from around the world in an international surfing competition.

With the proximity of the resort to heritage sites such as Hoi An, Hue, and My Son, ease of access to the Marble Mountain, and with two championship golf courses nearby, the resort gained in popularity and in 2001 Non Nuoc Tourism Company entered into a joint venture with the Ben Thanh Group to enlarge and rebrand the property.

Resort facilities include 2 swimming pools, 2 tennis courts, a fitness center, billards, table tennis, beach volleyball and football, and a children’s playground.

The MICE sector will also be part of Centara’s marketing mix, as the resort has a large events room that can hold 250 guests for a reception, while for outdoor receptions and events the gardens and beachside can hold up to 1,000 guests.

Sandy Beach Non Nuoc Da Nang Vietnam marks Centara’s second property in Vietnam, Chen Sea Resort&Spa Phu Quoc, Centara Boutique Collection, having opened on the island of Phu Quoc in 2011.

Centara Hotels&Resorts is Thailand’s leading operator of hotels, with 38 deluxe and first-class properties covering all the major tourist destinations in the Kingdom. A further 17 resorts in the Maldives, Vietnam, Bali Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Mauritius Indian Ocean, brings the present total to 55 properties. Brands and properties within Centara ensure that specific categories such as couples, families, individuals, and meetings and incentives groups will all find a hotel or resort that is appropriate to their needs.

Centara operates 24 branches of Spa Cenvaree, one of Thailand’s most luxurious and innovative spa brands, together with its newly-launched value brand Cense by Spa Cenvaree, which provides core spa services for busy travelers. The company’s Kids’ Club is available at all the family-friendly resorts to ensure that the youngsters and teens are taken care of. Centara Hotels&Resorts also operates 2 state-of-the-art convention centers in Bangkok, and 2 in northeastern Thailand, one being located in Udon Thani, and the other in Khon Kaen.

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