The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces their very first Park Inn in Bulgaria: The Park Inn Sofia featuring 113 rooms is scheduled to open in Q3 2010 – as a re-branding of the existing Greenville Hotel and Apartments, Sofia. “This new property will strengthen our presence in Sofia; it complements our successful Radisson Blu Grand Hotel which is located opposite the National Assembly”, says Kurt Ritter, President & CEO of Rezidor.

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces the Park Inn Lagos, Ikeja in Nigeria. The 135-rooms property is scheduled to open in 2013.

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces the signing and opening of the Park Inn Dresden, Germany. The 132 rooms-property, a former Tulip Inn, will be bookable in Rezidor’s reservation system by end of March.

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces their third hotel in the European Capital of Culture Istanbul: The Radisson Blu Hotel, Istanbul Asia featuring 194 rooms is scheduled to welcome the first guests in Q4 2011.

The Rezidor Hotel Group has rebranded their youngest property in Sweden’s capital city: The Park Inn Stockholm Waterfront Hotel has been upgraded to a Radisson Blu and will operate under the name Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel, Stockholm. The opening of the complex which is already under development and will feature 418 rooms as well as state-of-the-art meeting facilities for up to 3,000 delegates is scheduled for early 2011. Located in the heart of Stockholm between World Trade Center and City Hall and next to the Central Station, the Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel will be one of Scandinavia’s leading conference venues.

The Rezidor Hotel Group announces yet another record year of openings: In 2009, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide brought 36 hotels with 7,100 rooms into operation across Europe, Middle East and Africa – and created a total of 4,000 new jobs in these properties. With these numbers Rezidor was even able to surpass 2008 – with 33 openings with 6,500 rooms the group’s record year so far. And looking at 2007–2009, Rezidor notes an impressive 41% cumulative growth in rooms in operation.