Marco Polo Hotels () is a hotel management company based in Hong Kong that operates

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in Hong Kong,

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and the Philippines. It is a

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of Wharf (Holdings) Limited. The company's chairman is chairman and managing director of Wharf (Holdings) Limited.

History

Wharf's first hotel venture was the Hong Kong Hotel (not to be confused with the much earlier

Hongkong Hotel The Hongkong Hotel was Hong Kong's first luxury hotel modelled after sumptuous London hotels. It opened on Queen's Road and Pedder Street in 1868, later expanding into the Victoria Harbour waterfront of Victoria City in 1893. History The orig ...

), opened in 1970, which was a joint venture with Hongkong Land, Hui Sai-fun and Chung Ming-fai. The hotel was built on land immediately adjacent to Wharf's Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd property along the western shore of the Tsim Sha Tsui promontory. In 1982, Wharf completed redevelopment of its site as the

Harbour City (Hong Kong) Harbour City is a shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It occupies the lower levels of a series of office blocks and hotels, comprising several parts: Marco Polo Hotels, Ocean Terminal, Ocean Centre, the Gateway and the Pac ...

complex and opened its first wholly owned hotel there that year, the 440-room Marco Polo Hotel (later renamed Omni Marco Polo and finally Gateway). In 1984, the 393-room Prince Hotel (a reincarnation of the unrelated hotel situated on the corner of Argyle Street and Prince Edward Road West, Kowloon, until the 1970s) was added in the same complex. All three hotels were managed by The Peninsula Hotels in Hong Kong, a subsidiary of

Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited (HSH) is the holding company of a hotel group. It is engaged in the ownership, development and management of The Peninsula Hotels; commercial and residential properties in Asia, the United States and Eur ...

, at one point, but in 1986, Wharf started its own hotel management company under the name Marco Polo International, with the objective to develop further hotels in the region. In 1989, Wharf bought

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in North America. The Marco Polo hotel division was rebranded as Omni Hotels Asia-Pacific, creating global marketing synergies with the Omni brand, hence its three hotels became the Omni Hong Kong Hotel, Omni Marco Polo Hotel and Omni Prince Hotel. In 1996, Wharf sold Omni Hotels North America and the Hong Kong hotel division was again rebranded, the Marco Polo Hotels Group. Later, the Marco Polo Hotel was renamed the Gateway Hotel and the Hong Kong Hotel became the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel. In 2013, through another subsidiary, Wharf won a tender to lease and convert the HKSAR Government's

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in Central, Hong Kong Island, to a 336-room hotel and it opened in 2017, named ''The Murray, Hong Kong, a Niccolo Hotel''.

Properties and locations

Current locations of Marco Polo hotels are in Hong Kong (Marco Polo Hongkong, Gateway Hotel and Prince Hotel), mainland China (Marco Polo Parkside Beijing, Marco Polo

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, Marco Polo

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, Marco Polo Jinjiang and Marco Polo Lingnan Tiandi, Foshan and the Philippines (Marco Polo Plaza

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, Marco Polo Davao and the

Marco Polo Ortigas Manila Marco Polo Ortigas Manila () is a hotel at the Ortigas Center in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. Construction First SLP Holdings through its unit Xin Tian TI Development Corporation agreed in May 2012 with the Marco Polo Hotels Group to bu ...

). Niccolo Hotels was added to the group's portfolio as the new luxury collection in 2015. Its first hotel opened in Chengdu in April 2015 and is located at International Finance Square (IFS) in the centre of the city, followed by the opening of Niccolo Hotels in Chongqing, Changsha, Hong Kong SAR and Suzhou.

Gallery

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