Hilton Hotels Corporation has signed a cooperation agreement with a local company to open in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province as well as an economic hub in China’s western region.

The new property in southern Chengdu is Hilton’s sixth hotel in mainland China. It will have 515 rooms with mixed international and Chinese features. The hotel is expected to start hosting guests in 2010.

The market in China’s western region has been growing rapidly in recent years, especially Chengdu.

Atkins Co, which is the designer of the famous sail-shaped Burj Al Arab, will design the luxury property. After the opening of this hotel, the number of five-star hotels in Chengdu will rise to 12, making it first in luxury hotels in western China.

Our illustration is a somewhat idealized view of part of Chengdu. It really is not all like that.
Source: Alibaba.com

Hotusa Hotels, which appears to be a hotel group based in Spain, will run the refurbished Supreme Tower Hotel, a four-star hotel, in Shanghai. There is apparently already a Hotusa hotel in China although it is precise position is not given and it appears nowhere on the Hotusa site.

The Supreme Tower Hotel is a 345-room hotel with three large reception rooms for events and a varied culinary offer represented by the Ming Palace Chinese Restaurant and the Hanzan Japanese Restaurant. Refurbished in 2006, Supreme Tower is in the heart of Lujiazui financial center in Shanghai. It is 30km away from Pudong International Airport.
Source: Travel Daily News