* apan Airlines subsidiary plans to open 7 inns totaling 2,848 rooms in China, Vietnam and United Arab Emirates over next 2 years.
* Accor opens 400th lodging in Europe.
* Extended stay hotels outperforming big-name inns.
* Occupancy and revenue down worldwide, STR notes.
* Industry's decline may have hit bottom, Hotel Pulse Index hints.
(TOKYO, JAPAN) -- JAL Hotels Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Japan Airlines plans to open seven hotels totaling 2,848 rooms in China, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates over the next two years.
Nikko Hotels International, operated by JAL, is developing the properties.
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Hotel Nikko Shanghai
Hotels scheduled to open in 2010 are 471-room Hotel JAL Tower Dubai; the 388-room Hotel Nikko Shanghai and the 500-room Hotel Nikko Wuxi.
Heading the 2011 opening list is the 443-room Hotel Nikko Xiamen in Xiamen, a city with a population of three million located in the southwestern province of Fujian overlooking the Taiwan Strait.
Other hotels with 2011 opening dates include the 300-room JAL Bahrain Resort & Spa in Bahrain; the 335-room Hotel Nikko Saigon in Vietnam; the 411-room Nikko Guangzhou.
New York City 2010
