International hotel operator Accor said on Tuesday the newly-built hotel Novotel Saigon Centre under its management in HCMC has opened its doors to guests. The opening of Novotel Saigon Centre on the corner of Nguyen Dinh Chieu and Hai Ba Trung streets marks a return of this upper mid-scale hotel brand to the southern economic hub of Vietnam a couple of years after Accor stopped management of a building... 

Accor will more than double the number of hotel rooms under the Novotel brand in Vietnam in the next two years as rising demand of international and domestic guests has fueled the international hotel operator’s development strategy here. Accor said in a statement on Thursday that it was managing Novotel Halong Bay, Novotel Nha Trang and Novotel Phan Thiet Ocean Dunes & Golf Resort. These properties... 

Hot on the heels of Vinpearl Luxury Nha Trang Resort’s opening last month, Vinpearl Joint Stock Company has cut the red ribbon at Vinpearl Luxury Danang Resort. The company’s chairman and CEO Nguyen Trong Hien chats to Timeout’s Son Tran about the Vinpearl brand’s plans for further expansion and the prospects of the luxury tourism market Before your company built Vinpearl Luxury Danang, two... 

Global hotel operator Accor is entering a new stage of network expansion in Vietnam by planning to manage at least 3,700 new hotel rooms of different ratings in the next three years under its revised target after two decades of operations in this market. Executives of Accor confirmed the new expansion plan in a statement obtained by the Daily following the group’s 20th anniversary celebration in... 

Global hotel management group Accor on Wednesday announced its partnership with the local trade and real estate services firm Savico to manage and develop Mercure Son Tra Resort in the central coastal city of Danang. Scheduled to be up and running in 2013, the 120-room hotel is expected to help attract more guests to Danang and its Son Tra Peninsula, a national park full of greenery and preservation... 

HCMC – The global hotel management group Accor announced Wednesday a new partnership with Benthanh Group to develop a network of at least eight ibis hotels throughout the major cities of Vietnam as part of their recent agreement. Patrick Basset, Accor vice president of operations for Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, told the Daily that the group would manage the network of newly-built... 

HCMC – Accor is striving to realize its new ambitious goal to operate 30 projects in three years’ time, or almost three times higher than the current number of hotels the group is managing in Vietnam. “Our first realistic objective is to have 30 hotels and we think we shall be able to have this network of hotels already open by the end of 2013,” said Patrick Basset, Accor vice president... 

French hotel operator Accor has signed a deal to manage two luxury hotels to be built at a combined cost of US$68 million in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. It signed the agreement with the Que Huong-Liberty Joint Stock Company Monday to run the four-star Novotel Saigon Center and the five-star Pullman Hotel. Novotel Saigon Center is a joint venture between Que Huong-Liberty and the Investment and Construction... 

International hotel operator Accor announced on Wednesday it would double the number of rooms under its management in Vietnam by 2012. The operator has 13 hotels and 2,147 rooms in operation throughout Vietnam and the group has committed to more than 2,000 additional rooms via additional developments planned for the next two years. In late 2010, the operator anticipates the opening of the first Pullman...