IMPACT to build two new Bangkok hotels

More Bangkok hotel developments are underway:

Citing the growing trend of meetings and conventions, IMPACT Exhibition Management is set to start the construction of a 400-room, four-star hotel early next year.

The hotel (yet to be named), will be located next to IMPACT Convention Center and is slated to be completed by 2011. Around this time, IMPACT will build a second property - the 400-room, five-star Hotel Jubilee.

IMPACT managing director, Mr Paul Kanjanapas, said the company would manage the two properties on its own, but he did not rule out the option of engaging management or franchise agreements from international hotel chains either.

Meanwhile, the company's plan to convert a condominium building into a three-star IMPACT Lodge, which was supposed to open later this year, is now off given tight restrictions imposed by the local authorities.

Also on the drawing board is a theatre for 3,500 to 4,000 seats, a conversion of the existing IMPACT Exhibition Center Hall 1. Works will likely start in April next year and will take about three months to complete.