Indochina Kajima builds Wink Hotel in Hai Phong city
Indochina Kajima Development Company, a joint venture between Vietnam's Indochina Capital and Japan’s Kajima Corporation, on August 18 began the construction of a Wink Hotel, a revolutionary new hospitality brand, in the northern port city of Hai Phong.
At the construction site of Wink Hotel in Hai Phong. (Photo: VNA)
Hai Phong (VNA) – Indochina KajimaDevelopment Company, a joint venture between Vietnam's Indochina Capital and Japan’sKajima Corporation, on August 18 began the construction of a Wink Hotel, a revolutionarynew hospitality brand, in the northern port city of Hai Phong.
The 22-storey building that covers some 16,000 sq.mcomprises 203 hotel rooms and 77 service apartments with modern designs.
Keisuke Koshijima, Executive Vice President and RepresentativeDirector of Kajima, lauded potential of Hai Phong, especially in maritimetourism, saying the hotel, once becomes operational, will contribute to improving thequality of lodging and tourism services in the city.
Indochina Kajima had announced a pipeline of 20 hotelswithin seven years, with the first - Wink Hotel Saigon Centre – inaugurated inHo Chi Minh City last year, and two others to be put into operation in thefourth quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2023 in the central city of DaNang.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the centralprovince of Phu Yen are also home to two Wink Hotels, expected to beoperational in the first quarter of 2024.
Following the hotel in Hai Phong, Indochina Kajimawill build more Wind Hotels in Hanoi and the southern provinces of Binh Duongand Ba Ria-Vung Tau. Hanoi and HCM City will have second Wink Hotels afterthat.
Wink Hotels is conceived by developer, IndochinaKajima, operated by Indochina Vanguard (both joint venture companies withIndochina Capital and Kajima Corporation, and Vanguard Hotels respectively) anddesigned by leading French architects AW./.
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At the construction site of Wink Hotel in Hai Phong. (Photo: VNA) 
