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TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - China Airlines Co Ltd (2610.TW) said it has chosen leading European hotel management group Accor SA to operate a new hotel near Taoyuan International Airport in northern Taiwan.The hotel, Novotel Taoyuan International Airport Taipei, is scheduled to open in September 2009. It will be the first Accor-managed hotel in Taiwan.'Accor has been chosen as our partner because the French group's four-star Novotel brand, with 450 properties globally, is a famous brand and a leading name in airport hotels,' China Airlines chairman Philip Wei said.The 360-room Novotel Taoyuan International Airport Taipei is being built by China Airlines unit CAL Hotel Co Ltd.The new hotel is part of a build-operate-transfer (BOT) project the Taiwan government handed to China Airlines in September 2006.Under a 50-year contract, China Airlines is also building a new head office and a crew training and dispatch center, alongside the four-star Novotel airport hotel.In today's trade, China Airlines closed up 0.05 twd at 15.30.(1 usd = 33.0 twd)philip.wang@afxasia.compw/net
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