Travellers International Hotel Group announced it will break ground on the first phase of its US.1 billion Resorts World Bayshore in Manila within 90 days and have the super-casino open by 2018.
Bayshore’s buildable area, covering 31 hectares at the Philippine capital’s government-sponsored Entertainment City leisure district, will initially host three hotels, the company said. These will total 800 rooms and feature upscale Westin and Okura facilities. The third hotel will be developed by Genting Hong Kong, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of Malaysia’s Genting Group and the partner of Philippines conglomerate Alliance Global Group in Travellers.
The first phase also will include a shopping mall and entertainment facilities and possibly a theme park.
Around 2,800 hotel rooms are envisioned at full build-out, resulting in a property that will be about three times larger than the company’s current flagship, Resorts World Manila, which opened in 2009 near the capital’s international airport and is the largest and highest-grossing casino in the Philippines. RW Manila is less than three miles from RW Bayshore.
Resorts World Bayshore will be the last of four properties to open at Entertainment City. Bloomberry Resorts opened the first, Solaire Resort & Casino, last March. Macau giant Melco Crown Entertainment is slated to open its City of Dreams the end of this year. Kazuo Okada’s Manila Bay Resorts plans to open in 2015.
