Travellers International Hotel Group has broken ground on its US.1 billion Bayshore City Resorts World at Manila’s Entertainment City.
The PSX-listed, joint-venture operator of Resorts World Manila, the Philippine market’s largest casino and its biggest revenue-generator, said Bayshore City’s opening is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2018.
Plans for the resort call for at least 1,500 hotel rooms, divided between the luxury Westin and Okura brands and Genting Group’s Genting Grand and Crockfords Tower brands, plus a luxury residential component and a 3,000-seat showroom, retail shopping, cinemas and meeting and convention space.
Travellers is a partnership between Genting subsidiary Genting Hong Kong and Philippine conglomerate Alliance Global Group.
The company also is expanding at Resorts World Manila, which is located not far from Entertainment City at Manila’s international airport, and says the two properties combined could encompass about 5,100 hotel rooms.
“With the current developments at both Resorts World Manila and Bayshore City Resorts World properties, Travellers continues to push the envelope in the integrated resort industry,” said Travellers President Kingson-sian.
Bayshore City Resorts World will be the last of four multibillion-dollar casinos licensed for Entertainment City, a special reclamation area on Manila Bay targeted by the national government to boost tourism and foreign investment and provide badly needed jobs.
The first, Solaire Resort & Casino, opened last March under the umbrella of PSX-listed Bloomberry Resorts. It will be followed at the end of this year by City of Dreams Manila, operated by a local subsidiary of Macau casino giant Melco Crown Entertainment. The third is Japanese machine gaming magnate Kazuo Okada’s Manila Bay Resorts, which is being developed by a local subsidiary of Okada’s Japan-based Universal Entertainment.
