The world’s tallest hotel will open in Hong Kong in 2010. This is the year chosen for the new Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong hotel to welcome its first guests. With 312 rooms, the towering building will have a total of 118 floors. This will make the new hotel the highest in the world, according to the construction company, although this claim is debatable.
Today that title is held by the impressive Rose Tower located in Dubai. It measures a total of 333 meters and is made up of a total of 72 floors. This is followed closely by the Ryogyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, with its 330 meters and 105 floors. The third tallest hotel is the Burj Al Arab (Dubai) with a height of 321 meters and 60 floors.
In this case, the new Ritz-Carlton will house a shopping center inside, for which the specialists in this type of hotels, Emporis, have explained that the measures as a hotel will be reduced, only 90% of the building being computable, so it may not become the tallest hotel in the world. Regardless of the final measures, the fact is that the trend to build luxury hotels throughout Asia continues to increase, despite the global economic turmoil and the recession in the tourism industry.
Last week, different media commented that in Shanghai (the largest city in China) a total of almost 4,000 new rooms will be built in different luxury hotels, while Hong Kong is waiting for 11,000 new rooms.