APA Hotels & Resorts APA Hotel Unveiling ceremony held today

[APA Hotels & Resorts] APA Hotel Unveiling ceremony held today ​
APA Hotels & Resorts Press release: November 29, 2024 APA Hotel Unveiling ceremony held today APA Hotel Co., Ltd. (Head office: 3-2-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo President Motoya In the hotel business, Fumiko has concluded a franchise agreement for APA Hotel Wakayama (142 rooms in total) with TKP Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: 8 Ichigaya Hachiman-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Takateru Kono), and will open in November 2024. Opened on the 20th of May, today An unveiling ceremony was held. APA Hotel Wakayama Official Website: https://www.apahotel.com/hotel/kansai/wakayama/wakayama/
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/18265/711/18265-711-d1598783e9239fffa61ef5fcfdbddc81-3900×2600.jpg Tape cutting At the press conference held prior to the unveiling ceremony, APA Group President and CEO Motoya Kazushi said, “We have recently converted APA Hotel Wakayama, which we opened under direct management in 2012, to a franchise.In response to the recent rise in construction costs, we have developed a franchise scheme that allows us to open a hotel without changing the name and with minimal additional investment. I think President Kono is right in his selection.Wakayama is a land rich in nature, with many scenic spots such as Nanki Shirahama and the Kumano Kodo, and is an area that can be expected to attract a lot of leisure demand. With its convenient access to Kansai International Airport, it is expected to attract demand from foreign visitors to Japan in the run-up to next year’s Kansai Expo. APA Hotel & Resort (Osaka Namba Ekimae Tower) will open on December 2nd. Catching up and renovating the constantly evolving state-of-the-art APA hotels will improve the purity of specifications and lead to higher unit sales prices. I would like to ask President Kono to open more franchise stores.” APA Hotel Wakayama is accessible from two stations: Nankai Electric Railway Wakayama City Station (15 minutes walk) and JR Wakayama Station (10 minutes bus ride). It is also conveniently located within a 10-minute walk to the city center such as Wakayama Castle Hall. Wakayama city has good access to Kansai International Airport, which takes about 50 minutes, and travel to Osaka city takes about an hour, and we hope to capture accommodation demand for the Osaka-Kansai Expo to be held in 2025. There is. In the Kansai area, we are currently developing 44 hotels with 14,384 rooms (including directly managed, FC, and under planning), and on December 2, 2024, we will open *APA Hotel & Resort , which boasts the largest number of rooms in western Japan (total of 2,055 rooms). ) is scheduled to open (pre-opening on November 30th). *The largest number of guest rooms in one hotel building in western Japan (according to our own research) At the same time as this agreement, APA Group announced the acquisition of land for hotel development in front of Kintetsu Yokkaichi Station in Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture. Directly managed stores will have an increase of 231 rooms, and domestic franchise hotels will have an increase of 142 rooms. We will continue to strengthen the expansion of our APA hotel network in areas where demand is expected nationwide, using both direct management and franchise openings. Hotel overview Hotel name APA Hotel (Hotel No.189) Location 2-36-1 Honmachi, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture 640-8033 Access 15 minutes walk from Nankai Electric Railway Wakayama City Station. 10 minutes by bus from JR Wakayama Station Scale 9 stories Number of rooms Room 142 [APA Group] It is the largest APA hotel network in Japan with 893 hotels and 128,604 rooms (including hotels under construction and design, overseas, FC, and hotels directly affiliated with APA). Inheriting the “SUMMIT 5” that started in April 2010, we will launch a new five-year plan “AIM5 ~ APA Innovative Movement” in April 2022. We aim to develop 150,000 rooms as an APA hotel network by the end of March 2027, in order to become the overwhelmingly No. 1 hotel chain in Japan while capturing changing needs and the wave of DX in the post-corona era. ■APA Group release materials ■Inquiries for general customers regarding this matter APA Hotel https://www.apahotel.com/hotel/kansai/wakayama/wakayama/ Tel.073-431-7111 If you get it from “Apa Direct”, you will get the lowest price without any comparison. https://www.apahotel.com/ APA Hotel official app “APA app” https://apahotel.com/qr_app/