The Empire Group has launched the Pulse hotel in the chain of Boutique Hotels Cocobay including Pulse, Latido, Muze and Bisou hotels, adding more than 1,100 rooms to Da Nang’s hospitality market.

The chain of hotels, built in the biggest entertainment-cum-hospitality complex CocoBay in Da Nang, aim to serve booming tourism in the city.

The hotels at the entertainment centre aim to keep tourists longer in the city with entertainment, performances, shopping and tours.

According to Empire Group, an international standard arena and series of condotel and hotel projects are being developed at CocoBay as well.

Up to 2017, the central city had nearly 500 hotels and resorts with a total 16,800 rooms –40 per cent growth in comparison to 2016.

Vice director of the city’s tourism department, Nguyen Xuan Binh, said the number of rooms of hotel and resort projects would increase from 26,000 to 62,000 in 2030, while the city would need 27,000 employees at hotels and resorts alone.

Da Nang hosted 6.6 million tourists, of which 2.3 million were foreigners, in 2017, 20 per cent growth in comparison to 2016.

CocoBay Da Nang, the biggest entertainment project in the city’s tourism master plan to 2030, is built on 31ha with total investment of US$622 million.

It’s expected that it will create 10,000 jobs by 2020.

Last year, Empire Group signed a co-operation deal with Dream Hotel Group of the US and Louvre Hotels Group of France for hospitality management in Viet Nam. — VNS