Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has signed an agreement with Chongqing Guest House Company to manage a hotel in Chongqing that is scheduled to open in late 2011.

Swiss company Hydrovision is planning to invest CNY2.5 billion in building an underwater hotel in Xiaoyue Bay, Sanya.

French-based Sofitel has announced that it has signed three new contracts for hotels in the eastern and southeastern regions of China. These new Sofitel properties are already under construction and are scheduled to begin opening from the end of 2010.

Wyndham Hotel group has just announced that it will open the world's largest Ramada hotel, the 1,000-room Ramada Hotel & Suites Boao, in China's Hainan province.

The 282-room Ritz-Carlton Shenzhen has opened, making it the fifth property of the luxury hotel brand to have opened in China in the space of slightly more than two years.