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Global hospitality management conglomerate Golden Tulip has continued its strategic expansion into South-east Asia with the recent signing of two hotels in Thailand's popular resort destination of Pattaya.

Golden Tulip already boasts more than 255 hotels in 38 countries with 27,000 rooms and from the beginning of March the Royal Orchid Pattaya will be re-branded as the Golden Tulip Resort Pattaya and positioned as an ideal getaway destination for families and short break guests. The Erawan Hotel Pattaya will be re-branded as the Golden Tulip Erawan Hotel showcasing superb facilities for meetings and incentives and leisure travellers.

Both Pattaya properties will undergo extensive renovations to bring them up to Golden Tulip operating standards and will officially re-open in early March. The two hotels were officially signed over to new management on February 3.

Golden Tulip Managing Director, South East Asia, Mark van Ogtrop, said the signing of the Pattaya hotels displayed the strong intentions of the company to the travel industry that it was putting serious resources into finding partners in the region as it seeks more hotels to manage.

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