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International hotel chains are betting on Sihanoukville

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International hotel chains moving into Sihanoukville
30 March 2018
The arrival of international hotel chains could end the coastal city’s chronic shortage of rooms and further its development as Cambodia’s premier beach destination.

International hotel chains have identified a flood tide of tourism that is poised to finally put the coastal city of Sihanoukville on the map and are looking to get in early and fill the city’s chronic shortage of hotel rooms, especially in the four- and five-star category.

Improving infrastructure and more air connectivity, as well as a heavy dose of casino development, is drawing record numbers of tourists to the southern port city that is a gateway to tropical islands and beaches. Now, international hotel chains including Marriott, InterContinental and Accor are readying to open their first properties in Sihanoukville.

Earlier this month, US-based hotel giant Marriott International announced that it signed a deal with Cambodian real estate firm Grand Lion Group to manage a five-star hotel to be built on 1.7 hectares in Lek Bei commune near Hawaii Beach. Construction on the 388-room hotel, to operate under Marriott’s Le Meridien brand, is scheduled to break ground in January 2019, with the hotel slated to open three years later.

The hotel is part of the $200 million Gold Coast hotel and luxury residence tower complex that Grand Lion Group is developing to plug into Sihanoukville’s rising status as a beach destination. The project follows the opening of another Marriott-brand hotel in Siem Reap by the company earlier this year.

“Gold Coast at Sihanoukville will complement the Courtyard by Marriott Siem Reap and the nearby Angkor Archaeological Park by providing an extended stay for guests to explore another dimension of Cambodia,” Lundy Nath, CEO of Grand Lion Group, said in a press release. “This mega-project aims to be among the first to open a new chapter in luxury beach destination experiences in Sihanoukville.”

InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, a UK-based multinational hotel chain with over 5,000 properties worldwide, is close to finishing its $77 million hotel project in Sihanoukville. Thai Boon Roong Company, which owned the InterContinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, is developing the 476-room luxury hotel on 3 hectares in Lek Bei commune.

Tous Saphoeun, the chief architect of Thai Boon Roong Group and one of five architects behind the five-star hotel project, said work on the external structure of the 17-storey building was completed over a year ago and the project has moved into the next phase, which is interior design.

French hotel chain AccorHotels Group, which manages over 4,300 hotels worldwide, has also acquired property in Sihanoukville and will build a four-star Novotel hotel at Independence Beach. The 214-room hotel is expected to open in the third quarter of 2019, and is part of an expansion in Cambodia that includes another Novotel in Phnom Penh and an Ibis hotel in Siem Reap.
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real developments :thumb: hopefully no casinos attached to it
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what about the sewage?
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frank lee bent wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:26 pm what about the sewage?
One step at a time. Sewage can be dealt with later.

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people die from that shit
sometimes in the hundreds
they certainly did in Bali in the late 1970's
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Thai Boon Rong didn't own the Intercontinental in Phnom Penh.

It held the IHG franchise. Totally different thing.
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Username Taken wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:40 pm
frank lee bent wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:26 pm what about the sewage?
One step at a time. Sewage can be dealt with later.

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And electricity...and potable water...and parking...and clean beaches...
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that genius wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:24 am
Username Taken wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:40 pm
frank lee bent wrote: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:26 pm what about the sewage?
One step at a time. Sewage can be dealt with later.

:bad:
And electricity...and potable water...and parking...and clean beaches...
Yep, i call BS as well! The potential that it once had, is gone forever...
I actually don't give a flying fuck, furthermore nice to meet you all here! :thumb:
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We holidayed there around a year ago (April) I think we just managed to squeeze into the last decent part window.
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