Rendezvous Hotels & Resorts International Celebrates 10 Years of Successful Growth

Rendezvous Hotels & Resorts International (“Rendezvous”) will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this month and the successful attainment of its goal to operate an exceptional portfolio of hotels and resorts across the Asia-Pacific region.

Rendezvous, part of the Singapore listed company, The Straits Trading Company Limited, has grown out of a single-minded vision formed to establish a chain of hotels that surpassed existing standards of business class accommodation with premier locations, quality service and impeccable management structures.

Rendezvous’ Chief Executive Mr Alan Featherby acquired the first hotel in July 1997, now Rendezvous Observation City Hotel, Perth, with the intention to develop a system of managerial structures offering a transparency that was not available within existing hotel chains.

Mr Featherby says, “I looked at some of the older hotel groups and knew they weren’t transparent. There was no connection between the owners and the operators nor between the owners and staff, and this was a weakness. Forming the Rendezvous group it became imperative to establish good values and disciplines which would auger well and benefit the owner.”

The core values of transparency, honesty, respect, integrity, no politics and team work became the central focus of Mr Featherby’s ten year plan to develop Rendezvous as a competitive hotel chain.

The prototype of a typical Rendezvous hotel is 200 rooms plus, 4 to 5 star corporate hotels in gateway cities and upscale resorts offering leisure and recreational facilities in key resort locations throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Today, ten years on, Rendezvous has exceeded their own and industry expectations with ten hotels operating within Australia, three in Asia and one in New Zealand. Expansion plans continue to progress with three hotel projects currently under construction and several more to be announced soon.

Mr Featherby states, “It’s all about ‘good’ development and we have three more properties on the drawing board: Kuala Lumpur, Guilin (China) and Christchurch.

As one of the most active, expanding brands in the Asia Pacific region, Rendezvous is looking further into the future with great optimism. We aim to acquire an additional 15 properties over the next five years with greater development in China, Malaysia and the new locations of Vietnam and Thailand.”

With future plans to expand to a total of 30 hotels within the next five years Rendezvous are keen to build upon their already significant presence within the region and in the tourism industry; truly a reason to celebrate.

The Rendezvous Hotels & Resorts International group currently operates in 12 cities in the Asia-Pacific region:

• Rendezvous Observation City Hotel, Perth
• Rendezvous Sanctuary Resort, Cable Beach, Broome
• Rendezvous Allegra Hotel, Adelaide
• The Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne
• Rendezvous Stafford Hotel, Sydney
• Rendezvous Hotel, Brisbane
• Rendezvous Reef Resort, Port Douglas
• Rendezvous Hotel, Singapore
• Rendezvous Merry Hotel, Shanghai
• Rendezvous Baohong Hotel, Sanya
• Rendezvous Hotel Christchurch (opening 2008)
• Rendezvous Hotel, Kuala Lumpur (opening 2009) .
• Rendezvous Hotel, Auckland
• The Marque Hotel, Brisbane managed by Rendezvous
• The Marque Hotel, Sydney managed by Rendezvous
• The Marque Hotel, Canberra managed by Rendezvous
• The Marque Hotel, Melbourne
• The Marque Hotel, Guilin (opening 2008)

Report by The Mole