{"id":17352,"date":"2010-08-19T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=17352"},"modified":"2010-08-19T05:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:32:24","slug":"guoman-and-thistle-hotels-enters-china-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/08\/19\/17352\/","title":{"rendered":"Guoman And Thistle Hotels Enters China Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guoman and Thistle Hotels recently established its asia headquarters in Shanghai, marking its official entry into the China market and the start of its expansion in Asia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Set up in London in 2002, the group has two hotel brands: the luxury five-star brand Guoman and the four-star Thistle brand. There are currently five hotels under the Guoman brand in central London, with each hotel distingushed by unique architectural, historical, and cultural features. Thistle is a well-established brand in the UK domestic market, with 34 hotels in central London and throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Guoman and Thistle Hotels started its trial overseas expansion by opening two hotels in Malaysia: Thistle Port Dickson and Thistle Johor Bahru. The first\u00a0Guoman hotel invested in, and managed by the group, in China is slated to open in Shanghai in October 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guoman and Thistle Hotels recently established its asia headquarters in Shanghai, marking its official entry into the China market and the start of its expansion in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12882,13132,15209,13152,13623,12764,11613],"class_list":["post-17352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-five-star","tag-four-star","tag-guoman","tag-london","tag-malaysia","tag-shanghai","tag-thistle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}