Congress and exhibition organiser RAI and Amsterdam’s South Axis (Zuidas) business district have launched a tender for a new 4-star hotel in the area.
Congress and exhibition organiser RAI and Amsterdam’s South Axis (Zuidas) business district have launched a tender for a new 4-star hotel in the area.
The 650-room hotel will be built on a site next to the RAI railway station.
The tender, which was launched during the Provada property fair in Amsterdam, will run between 25 July and 8 August, with the winning bid to be selected from a shortlist of four candidates on 5 December.
The Zuidas area is also seeing the development of another hotel, Motel One, in which German fund manager Union Investment is the end-investor. Union also owns the existing 207-room Crowne Plaza hotel in the Zuidas district.
Figures presented by market research bureau Horwath HTL during the Provada point to growing optimism in the Dutch hotel market. Both average occupancy and room rates are expected to increase in 2014 following a strong performance last year.
The average occupancy rate at Dutch three-, four-, and five-star hotels rose slightly to 67.8% in 2013 from 66.7% a year earlier. Around 65% of the hoteliers polled expect occupancy rates to increase further in 2014.
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