SilverNeedle Hospitality launches with new acquisition
To create Asian travel revolution:
SilverNeedle Hospitality, a new integrated management, development
and investment hospitality company, launched in Asia this week. Founded
by the Nadathur Group along with a group of prominent industry veterans,
SilverNeedle is rolling out a portfolio of hotels focused on mid-upper
scale properties in key destinations across Asia.
The company started its growth plans with the acquisition of
Australia-based Touraust Corporation’s Constellation business. The
acquisition portfolio includes over 60 hotels in Australia and New
Zealand including Australis Resorts and Hotels, Country Comfort brands
and the Sundowner Motels brands in New Zealand.
SilverNeedle Hospitality President Bill Black, “With our vision to be
a leader in Asian hspitality and to be a company with substantial scale,
we have started our business with the acquisition of Constellation
Hotels. This acquisition gives us a great platform to launch our new
brand, NEXT Hotels and Resorts. Constellation with its operating
expertise, know-how and insights, gained in the mature tourism market of
Australia will be of great benefit to our new company.” SilverNeedle
Hospitality will be launching its portfolio of hotels and resorts
through strategic investments, development and management.
The portfolio will be focused on the mid-upper scale segment, in key
urban and resort destinations across Asia. This recognizes an
opportunity to capitalize on the rising number of newly affluent,
middle-class travelers into and within Asia. Business and leisure
travelers will soon be able to look forward to unique levels of Asian
hospitality in key destinations in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia,
India and Sri Lanka.
SilverNeedle Hospitality’s flagship brand will be called NEXT Hotels
and Resorts. NEXT Hotels are tailored for the modern ‘Road Warrior’ and
purposely designed to optimize the guest’s use of time on their business
travel while NEXT Resorts will be a more family-centric offering for
those travelers who seek out a time to relax as well as enjoy authentic
cultural experiences. NEXT Hotels and Resorts are designed to deliver
the next generation of Asian hospitality; that guarantee an effortless
stay, all the time, anytime, every time.
SilverNeedle Hospitality will continue to add to its current
portfolio by scouting for hotels that fit its growth plans of over
10,000 rooms in five years. The group plans to invest and develop
green-field, brown-field and operating hotels in the region.
SilverNeedle Hospitality has already set up its headquarters in
Singapore as well as regional offices in Bangkok, Mumbai and Sydney and
plans to open an office in China in early 2012.
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