From the construction of the hotel in 1922 to the completion of 1926, it was once stationed as a temporary military camp by the British army.
Hong Kong fell in World War II,1941On the evening of February 25th, Governor Yang took the Star Ferry to the Peninsula Hotel to sign the surrender. During the Japanese occupation, the Peninsula Hotel was requisitioned by the Japanese army as a command center.
Since 1950, Peninsula Hotel has been called "Shadow Teahouse" because many movie stars like to have afternoon tea on the Peninsula. In the1980s, artists such as Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung and Maggie Cheung were frequent visitors to the hotel. Hollywood movie star Tom Cruise also stayed.
1994 Hotel is expanded, with a 30-story wing building in the north and a heliport on the top floor, which is convenient for important guests to use helicopters to directly travel to and from Hong Kong International Airport or swim across Hong Kong.
The 75-year legend about hotel management technology may not be suitable for it. Cold numbers and matrix-managed graphics are not its style, but history is its style. This is a living history. As the last face of a Hong Kong-funded consortium, the Kadoorie family, the fourth largest chaebol in Hong Kong, is a glorious symbol of a century-old wealth of 30 billion. The word "Peninsula Hotel" is for business travelers who like to taste history and culture. Therefore, it is affectionately called "pen". Its English afternoon tea was once the favorite of writer Zhang Ailing. Even Xu Anwar, the director of Love in a Fallen City, gave it the most scenes: starting with the hugs and dances of the hero and heroine, "There is the best dance floor in Hong Kong". Love for them, "Can you see the moonlight in your room?" Then I feel fixed love, "I've always wanted to see the moonlight in your room." Zhang Ailing let Peninsula Hotel witness the emotional entanglements of all lovers in troubled times.
Founded in 1928, as the oldest hotel in Hong Kong, it has become a symbol since the first day of its birth. Seventy-five years ago, it even awakened the quiet Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong, and once surpassed Shanghai's Shili Yangchang, becoming a place where celebrities gathered in the city and exiled nobles lived a drunken life. It looks at and experiences Hong Kong and grows with it. It is the pride of the hotel industry in Hong Kong. In a recent global survey conducted by Zagat in the United States, Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel was rated as the best hotel in the world, ranking first among the top ten hotels in the world. It is also the most popular business hotel in Time magazine in 2003 and the second best business hotel in the world selected by Business Traveler magazine.
It seems that Miss Zhang Yaxin, the director of hotel public relations, is not used to introducing the operating characteristics and core competitiveness of Peninsula Hotel in a formulaic way. Miss Zhang provided the reporter with a series of figures behind the 75-year history of Peninsula Hotel. Miss Zhang said: "This is the culture of the peninsula, and this is the competitiveness of the peninsula."
There are 48,000 pieces of sterling silver tableware in the hotel, with a market value of $6,543.8+0,000. Eight grinders need to be started every day to make the tableware as bright as new. These tableware have been made by the same manufacturer since 1925.
The doorman opens the glass door engraved with a pair of fighting gods for guests about 4000 times a day. Their all-white uniforms and white hats have not changed their style since they opened.
Peninsula Hotel has the lowest employee turnover rate in Hong Kong, with a total of 775 employees, with an average of 2.6 employees serving 1 guest, including 75 employees 1 person, 2 employees with 40 years of service, 9 employees with 30 years of service, 29 employees with 20 years of service and employees with more than 10 years of service/kloc-.
1960 The cultural relics protection team set up during the renovation of the hotel cancelled the ceiling fans and crystal lights in the lobby, but retained the gothic cylindrical roof with 76 portraits of white people on it.
The pearl of the family defense war belongs to a British Jewish family called Kadoorie, which has owned this Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel since 1928.
The Kadoorie family is another famous British consortium besides Jardine Matheson, Swire and HSBC. Its core assets are 34% equity of CLP Power and 58.82% equity of Hong Kong Hotel Group, and it holds a large number of unlisted assets, such as the famous Baoyuan Investment. In 2003, he was listed as the fourth richest man in Hong Kong by Forbes magazine, with assets of $4.5 billion.
In Miss Zhang's view, a very stable hotel culture comes from a stable family management.
However, this stable family management has been criticized by investors as conservative and "not enterprising". Therefore, Hong Kong Hotel Group, with Peninsula Hotel as its core asset, was acquired by stock snipers and Luo twice in the1980s.
"That was the only 6-star hotel in Hong Kong at that time. It's an antique and I like its taste very much. " Talking about the hotel sniper incident, Liu Luanxiong once recalled in an interview with our reporter. Therefore, when the opportunity came, Howe did not hesitate to take over Huayu and Aimeigao together with Lixin Clothing at the price of 53 yuan per share. A year-long battle with the Kadoorie family for board seats and the right to speak in the hotel ended with Kadoorie taking over the hotel shares held by Liu. This enabled Liu's China Entertainment Company to earn HK$ 92 million, while Aimeigao earned HK$ 42 million.
After the fierce fighting, the Kadoorie family was determined to reform. 1994 major renovation and expansion. In addition to building a 30-storey peninsula wing, it also invested in the construction of a helipad, making it the only hotel in Hong Kong that provides helicopter services. Kadoorie also invested 10 billion dollars to buy Peninsula Hotel in New York, Peninsula Hotel in Billie Huashan and Peninsula Hotel in Bangkok.
Today, Peninsula Group, a subsidiary of Hong Kong Shanghai Hotel Co., Ltd., has managed eight luxury hotels in Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, new york, Beverly Hills and Chicago, with more than 3,000 rooms. It is famous for the concept of establishing only one top luxury hotel in every metropolis, and is praised as "five-star peninsula" by the international hotel industry.
Returning to Shanghai on May 7, 2004, the Kadoorie family officially announced their investment in Shanghai Peninsula Hotel. This is the first time that it has returned to Shanghai after being away from Shanghai for more than 50 years, and continues to write about its "hundred-year love" with Shanghai. According to reports, Hong Kong Shanghai Hotel Co., Ltd. was established in 1866, when it was doing business in both Hong Kong and Shanghai. By 1924, there were three most luxurious hotels in Shanghai at that time. After World War II, Hong Kong Shanghai Hotel Co., Ltd. sold all its shares in the mainland, left Shanghai and turned to Hong Kong Peninsula as the flagship symbol of the hotel company.
Shanghai Peninsula Hotel, located at No.31Zhongshan Dongyi Road, Shanghai, is the first project to be started in the Bund Source Project. By then, the platinum five-star Shanghai Peninsula Hotel will not only add new elegance to the Bund, but also become a new landmark of high-end places in Shanghai relying on world-famous brands, rich management experience and world-class services.
Throughout the growth process of Peninsula Group, its success comes from many aspects. On the whole, its operating characteristics are: attaching importance to location strategy, maintaining and strengthening brand, pure and simple expansion concept, successful market segmentation, unique hotel culture and keeping up with the world technology trend.
Hotel features Peninsula Hotel has many restaurants and bars, and Gaddi's is considered as one of the best French restaurants in Asia. Felix is located on the 28th floor, serving Pacific coast cuisine. 1994 opened, designed by famous French designers. The lobby of Peninsula Hotel is famous for afternoon tea, which is common among many city celebrities. Jialinlou provides exquisite Cantonese cuisine and cooperates with Cathay Pacific Airways Limited to launch special in-flight meals.
Address: No.22 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
MRT tsim sha tsui station Exit E (3 minutes walk)
Related news 1, peninsula boutique has settled in seven peninsula hotels, and the Hong Kong store will be newly opened.
2. Shanghai Peninsula Hotel was rated as the best hotel in the world by Forbes.