Beijing has continued to grow since the Olympic Games. Although the new Mandarin Oriental came to an untimely end before it opened, several other new properties are nearing their opening dates later this year and early 2010. Fairmont Beijing in the city’s east will open with 222 rooms and meeting space for 200. It will be best suited to smaller, high-end events.


The China World Shangri-La Hotel’s exclusive Summit Wing is the city’s answer to the hotel’s Valley Wing in its Singapore and Guangzhou properties. The Summit Wing will offer 278 guestrooms at the top of China World Tower, which also has an observation deck on level 81. It will feature a Chi Spa and two ballrooms totalling 3,200 sqm.

Next year will see the opening of the 322-room Hilton Beijing Capital Airport and 372-room Langham Place Beijing Airport. Both are just minutes from the airport and the new China International Exhibition Centre.

Convention space
Meanwhile, the China National Convention Centre will open on November 1. The facility is located in the city’s north and will be the premier convention centre in town with a plenary hall that holds 6,000 people, a grand ballroom that can hold 3,000 and more than 90 meeting rooms of different capacities ranging from 30 to 600 people.

There will also be 22,000 sqm of exhibition space. CNCC has already hosted the recent CIBTM Trade Show as a warm-up to its opening and has 179 events already booked.