“The opening of Park Hyatt Beijing will set a new stage of luxury accommodation for the increasing number of Middle East travellers to China,” said Thierry Bertin, Area Director of Marketing – Middle East, Hyatt International Hotels and Resorts.

“Not only is it exclusive, the property recreates a ‘home away from home’ where Middle East travellers can now rediscover elegance while on business or pleasure in one of the fastest growing cities in the world,” Bertin added.

Park Hyatt Beijing will join the likes of Park Hyatt Tokyo, immortalised in the Oscar-winning film Lost in Translation. And also Park Hyatt Sydney on the banks of Sydney Harbour, recently voted among the World’s Best Hotels by Travel + Leisure magazine.

Directly opposite the China World Trade Centre, Park Hyatt Beijing will take the uppermost floors in the main tower of the soon-to-open Beijing Yintai Centre. The Beijing Yintai Centre has been conceived as a city within itself, an ‘urban oasis’ where people can live, work, shop, dine and entertain in one location, minimising the stress and carbon footprint of daily commuting.

Park Hyatt Beijing will be the first Park Hyatt hotel in China, with the second, the Park Hyatt Shanghai opening in July 2008. Park Hyatt is the most exclusive brand among Hyatt’s 735 hotels and resorts. There are currently 24 Park Hyatt hotels, which can be found on prime real estate in fashionable cities such as Paris, Milan, Sydney, Tokyo and Buenos Aires. An additional six properties are in development.

Park Hyatt Beijing will be the eighth Hyatt hotel to open in mainland China, following Grand Hyatt Beijing, Hyatt Regency Dongguan, Hyatt Regency Hangzhou, Grand Hyatt Shanghai, Hyatt Regency Tianjin, Hyatt Regency Xian and Hyatt on the Bun Shanghai, which opens in July 2007. Twelve more Hyatt hotels are scheduled to open in China in the next few years.