InterContinental Hotels Group’s luxury brand, Regent Hotels & Resorts, has secured two new additions to its stable in Cannes and in Shanghai.

Hyatt’s boutique luxury hotel brand Alila is expanding its footprint in China with the brand to be introduced in Shanghai in 2023.

Qantas and China Eastern Airlines have been granted interim authorisation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for an extended Joint Coordination Agreement (JCA) enabling the carriers to continue to coordinate operations between Australia and mainland China until March 2022.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has announced a future hotel project in Shanghai that will open near the turn of the next decade. The Rosewood Shanghai will be part of a new mixed-use development built in the city’s Jing’An District and Suhewan area.

Ten years ago, The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai, Pudong, opened on 21 June 2010 at precisely 11.08am. It is still an Art Deco jewel, on the upper floors of the César Pelli-designed 58-floor International Financial Centre IFC in Shanghai’s Pudong business area.

IHG’s Regent Hotels & Resorts luxury hotel brand has been revealed as the upcoming new operator of the Four Seasons Hotel Pudong, Shanghai. Last week, Four Seasons confirmed it would cease to manage the property from mid-May 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Travel industry doyen, Wendy Wu, the founder Wendy Wu Tours, this week held talks with the Prime Minister of Vietnam to lobby for visa-free entry for Australian and New Zealand travellers visiting the country.

Amanyangyun, 45 minutes’ drive from the centre of Shanghai, is unique for many reasons. Other properties are converted from traditional houses. Amanfayun, near Hangzhou, is a re-use of an entire one-street village. Its houses, now individual villas, are still surrounded by tea plantations. But Amanyangyun all began because an entrepreneurial developer, Ma Dadong, then only 26, was so appalled that villages in Fuzhou were being completely submerged by a forthcoming dam that he bought 13 of their traditional stone mansions. Each is 300-500 years old, dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

SANGHA Retreat by OCTAVE Institute has introduced 21 new wellness programs to help guide guests on their personal journeys of awakening to achieve mind, body and spiritual wellness.

Cathay Pacific Airways has reopened its newly renovated Shanghai Pudong Cathay Pacific Lounge, marking the introduction of the airline’s award-winning lounge design to mainland China for the first time.

Shanghai is one of those world cities that seems to launch new luxury hotels with every new moon, and of course, all of them seem to be successful in an environment that craves the latest and where innovation abounds. Someone, for instance, has had the brilliant idea of using the city’s heritage.

Marriott International’s EDITION Hotels brand has expanded its portfolio beyond London, New York and Miami Beach with a new opening in Shanghai, joining the group’s launch property in China, located in Sanya.