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Robinsons Land Corp. plans to build 30 budget hotels in five years to meet increased demand. Company president Frederick Go said Go Hotel, the first budget hotel, which had a soft opening in Mandaluyong City early this year, had stimulated “excellent demand” and was “often fully booked,” Go said as he formally opened the company’s Go Hotel. Mr. Go said each of the planned hotels will have 100 to 200 rooms.

A Korean group, which is constructing a 616-room resort hotel complex in Lapu Lapu City, has unveiled its plan to also construct a retirement village and a golf course in the coastal town of Cordova located at the southeastern tip of Mactan Island, Cebu.

Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa has introduced sunset cruises aboard the M/S Vianelle Trimaran Ketch Yacht.

Grand Hyatt Hotel will soon rise on a 1.5 hectare lot at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig at a cost of around US$300 million.  Once completed, the 66-storey hotel, will be promoted as a six-star luxury hotel and managed by the Hyatt Group.

It will have 400 rooms and will be the second hotel in the Bonifacio Global City after the Shangri-La Hotel, which will also open by 2014. Grand Hyatt Hotel will be one of the tallest and biggest mixed-use buildings in the Philippines when it is completed by the end of 2014.

A foreign group behind the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore is in talks with the Philippine government for the transformation of the Manila Central Post Office into a first-class hotel.

Ms. Gemma Cruz Araneta, vice president of the city of Manila’s Historical and Heritage Commission, said the group is currently engaged in negotiations with the government.

Japanese firm Universal Entertainment Corp. has committed to invest US$2 billion for an entertainment and gaming complex called Manila Bay Resorts on the Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment Complex in the reclaimed portion of Manila Bay.  Its Philippine unit, Tiger Resorts,Leisure and Entertainment Inc., said the plan is to build two luxury casino hotels with 450 and 650 rooms each.

However, the project became uncertain following reports that Wynn Resorts Ltd. bought out its Japanese investor, Kazuo Okada who controls Universal Entertainment, for extending cash and gifts worth US$110,000 to the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) officials.

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