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AccorHotels Reaches Milestone in Asia Pacific
2 monthes ago - By Global Traveler
With the opening of Pullman Tokyo Tamachi, AccorHotels reached its milestone 1,000 th hotel in Asia Pacific. The chain has more than 200,000 rooms in the region, which now accounts for 30 per cent of the brand's rooms worldwide.
“For the first half of 2018, 72 per cent of global room openings for the group were in Asia Pacific,” said Michael Issenberg, CEO, Asia Pacific, AccorHotels. “We currently open, on average, a new hotel in Asia Pacific every three days, but our goal is to move this to a new hotel every second day by 2020 and one hotel per day globally.”
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