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NATIONAL REPORT-Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts will open the first hotel of a planned North American collection in 2008. Ground was broken for a 120-room Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel scheduled to open March 2008, and a 222-room Chicago hotel, which is to open in April 2009. Locations will follow in Miami (147 rooms and 105 fractional residences) in the third quarter of 2009 and Las Vegas (400 rooms) in the second quarter of 2010.
According to Stephen Darling, regional v.p. for North America, other new-build properties are planned for Boston, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco and Washington.
With 30 hotels now operating from Hong Kong to Dubai and Sydney to Beijing, in order to keep the momenmm Shangri-La has achieved in Asia, the company needs to increase its profile in its prime customer markets including the U.S., Europe and...