BANGKOK - Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts' president for
worldwide operations, Wolf Hengst has announced that its
Regent hotels in Bangkok and Chiang Mai will be renamed the
Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok and Four Seasons Resort Chiang
Mai respectively. Despite the name change, he said current
management at both hotel properties would remain. The move
follows two years of refurbishment at the Regent Bangkok,
costing the company US$4.8 million. Four Seasons is rapidly
expanding its business in Asia. The company last year
opened its first hotel in Shanghai followed by a second in
Tokyo. Construction has already begun on Four Seasons
Resort Langkawi, Malaysia, which is scheduled to open in
the first half of next year. Another Four Seasons hotel in
Hong Kong is expected to open in 2005.