citzenM to expand in Asia with a strong partner

Amsterdam. Five years after the premiere with the citizenM Amsterdam-Schiphol, the Dutch "luxury budget” chain is operating a total of three hotels: at Amsterdam airport as well as downtown and in Glasgow. Due to the crisis, the company has focused expansion on London and New York. According to CEO Michael Levie, the company has eleven projects in the pipeline at top locations all over the world. On the website, the group speaks of 20 planned hotels that are to be erected within the next five years – at airports with more than 15 million passengers per year and cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants and the necessary bit of leisure time, lifestyle and/or business. Our correspondent Sarah Douag met Michael Levie in Amsterdam. An update on a promising hotel group we have heard very little about in the last while.