W Hotels Worldwide unveiled plans to more than double its Asian presence by the end of 2018, bringing its Asian portfolio to nearly 20 W hotels and retreats in nine countries. More than half of the W brand’s global pipeline is slated for Asia Pacific, including the first W Hotel in mainland China opening in Guangzhou later this month, followed by other China openings in Beijing, Shanghai, Changsha and Suzhou over the next five years. Additional W Hotels have been announced in India, Indonesia and Malaysia. W Hotels recently opened in Singapore and Bangkok.
The W brand first entered Asia in 2004 with the opening of W Seoul-Walkerhill. Since then, W Hotels has strengthened its presence in the region with eight hotels and retreats in seven countries, including properties in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Maldives and Hong Kong. W Hotels will open 11 new properties in the Asia Pacific region by 2018, including W Guangzhou Hotel & Residences (March 31, 2013); W Guangzhou and W Beijing-Chang’an (2014); W Changsha (2014); W Shanghai-The Bund (2014); W Retreat & Spa Goa (2015); W Mumbai (2015); W Noida-Delhi NCR (2016); W Jakarta (2016); W Kuala Lumpur (2016); W Delhi NCR-Gurgaon WTC (2017); and W Suzhou (2017).
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