Alliance Global to put up luxury hotel in Newport City

Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI), the holding company of business tycoon Andrew Tan, will put up a luxury hotel within the 25-hectare Newport City development across the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 in Pasay City. Alliance Global, in a disclosure to the stock exchange Monday, said the company will break ground for the 540-room Hamilton Hotel this quarter. Hamilton Hotel will be the fourth hotel to be put up in the Newport City. Marriott and Maxims hotels are already operational and development of Remington Hotel is expected to be finished next year. Hamilton “is the fourth hotel to rise in Newport City, and it clearly demonstrates both our strong commitment in and our confidence in the potential of the tourism industry in the Philippines," Kingson Sian, AGI president, said in a statement. Hamilton Hotel, once completed in 2012, will bring to about 1,900 the hotel rooms in Newport City. Meanwhile, two other hotels are expected to rise within the next five years in Newport City, bringing the total room count to around 2,500. This will make Newport City the country’s single real estate project with the largest concentration of hotel rooms. Hamilton’s strategic location, right across the NAIA Terminal 3, will make it attractive to local and foreign tourists, the company said. Aside from luxury hotels, Newport City boasts of being the home of the country’s first integrated tourism estate, Resorts World Manila (RWM). RWM’s facilities range from a shopping mall and a 1,500-seat performing arts theater to cinemas, restaurants and high-end luxury shops to an exclusive lifestyle club, spas and gaming areas. Since RWM opened in August 2009, its number of visitors has already reached two million. –VVP/VS, GMANews.TV