Spanish hotel group Melia is to open a hotel in Shanghai – its eighth property in China.
The Meli-¡ Shanghai Hongqiao is part of the Lidoway project, set to become a major urban complex in Hongqiao, in west Shanghai.
A business hub for the Yangze River Delta region, it is also home to the Hongqiao Transportation Hub with a fast growing airport and railway.
The complex will be a range of commercial and entertainment facilities, dining outlets, alfresco areas and high-end residential villas.
Due to open in July 2016, the hotel will have 190 rooms, meeting rooms, two restaurants and an executive lounge.
It will be very close to the new National Convention and Exhibition
Center (formerly the China Expo Exhibition Center), which has a
capacity to accommodate up to 300,000 people a day.
The Hongqiao Airport is the fourth busiest airport in mainland China and Hongqiao Railway station is also the largest railway station in Asia.
Melia Hotels International, which opened a corporate hub in Shanghai in 2011,
says it will continue to increase its presence in the China and Asia Pacific region.
