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TOKYO -- Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide plans to open a hotel in Bangkok in fiscal 2029, the Japanese company said on Monday, looking to expand its fan base overseas and bring more guests to its properties in Japan. [1]

TOKYO -- Prince Hotels will acquire the hotel business of Sydney-based StayWell Hospitality Group, the Japanese luxury hotel chain announced Monday. [2]

TOKYO -- Japan's Prince Hotels on Thursday opened the first location in a new chain offering the hospitality brand's lowest room rates. [3]

Tokyo 2020 OlympicsOlympic glow turns to gloom for Seibu's Prince Hotels Mainstay business hit by double whammy of delayed games and tourism drop The Prince Hotel in Tokyo's Shinagawa district, one of the largest hotels in Japan. [4]

TOKYO -- While most hoteliers in Japan are busy refurbishing their rooms to tap the foreign tourism boom, Prince Hotels is overhauling its restaurants instead, betting that the fastest way to the hearts -- and wallets -- of overseas guests is through... [5]

NEW YORK -- The Kitano Hotel New York, a long-established Japanese-owned luxury lodging, reopens on Friday as The Prince Kitano New York, making it operator Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide's first property in the U.S. city. [6]

TOKYO -- Japanese railway and hotel group Seibu Holdings will partner with Westin Hotels & Resorts, counting on a popular overseas brand to help turn its money-losing Hawaii business around. [7]

TOKYO -- Japanese hospitality company Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide seeks a bigger presence Asian markets outside Japan, President Masahiko Koyama told Nikkei, as it embarks on its second year of an asset-light strategy. [8]

Sources
[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-07-01 · 100% match

Japan's Seibu Prince to open luxury Bangkok hotel in fiscal 2029

TOKYO -- Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide plans to open a hotel in Bangkok in fiscal 2029, the Japanese company said on Monday, looking to expand its fan base overseas and bring more guests to its properties in Japan.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-07-04 · 100% match

Prince Hotels buying Australian operator

TOKYO -- Prince Hotels will acquire the hotel business of Sydney-based StayWell Hospitality Group, the Japanese luxury hotel chain announced Monday.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-10-08 · 100% match

Prince Hotels opens first $100-per-night site in Tokyo

TOKYO -- Japan's Prince Hotels on Thursday opened the first location in a new chain offering the hospitality brand's lowest room rates.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-03-25 · 100% match

Olympic glow turns to gloom for Seibu's Prince Hotels

Tokyo 2020 OlympicsOlympic glow turns to gloom for Seibu's Prince Hotels Mainstay business hit by double whammy of delayed games and tourism drop The Prince Hotel in Tokyo's Shinagawa district, one of the largest hotels in Japan.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-03-20 · 100% match

Prince Hotels spices up Tokyo eateries to lure foreign guests

TOKYO -- While most hoteliers in Japan are busy refurbishing their rooms to tap the foreign tourism boom, Prince Hotels is overhauling its restaurants instead, betting that the fastest way to the hearts -- and wallets -- of overseas guests is through

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-12-01 · 100% match

New York's Kitano Hotel to reopen under Seibu Prince management

NEW YORK -- The Kitano Hotel New York, a long-established Japanese-owned luxury lodging, reopens on Friday as The Prince Kitano New York, making it operator Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide's first property in the U.S. city.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-08-14 · 100% match

Seibu to replace Prince with Westin in new Hawaii hotel strategy

TOKYO -- Japanese railway and hotel group Seibu Holdings will partner with Westin Hotels & Resorts, counting on a popular overseas brand to help turn its money-losing Hawaii business around.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-01-14 · 100% match

Japan hotel group plots Asian expansion after deal with Singapore's GIC

TOKYO -- Japanese hospitality company Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide seeks a bigger presence Asian markets outside Japan, President Masahiko Koyama told Nikkei, as it embarks on its second year of an asset-light strategy.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-04-01 · 100% match

Reporter’s Notebook: On the Ground in Mrauk-U

YANGON—It is possible I would not be alive to write this had I opted to have dinner at Khant restaurant, opposite the KBZ Bank in northern Rakhine State’s ancient city of Mrauk-U, on March 18, as that evening Army troops opened fire on homes in the a

[10] MM aninews.in · 100% match

Latest News on crime scene - ANI News - Asia’s Premier News Agency

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved the establishment of 14 additional campuses of the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) across multiple states-- a broader push to strengthen India's criminal justice system and forensic infrast

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