Coincidence? AccorHotels debuts Orient Express
Coincidence? Maybe. But five days after Belmond (Orient-Express Hotels until 2014) was sold to French luxury giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, AccorHotels on Tuesday announced its first Orient Express hotel will open in the landmark King Power Mahanakhon Building in Bangkok. AccorHotels, which last year signed a strategic partnership with SNCF Group to develop Orient Express hotels, was among those rumored to acquire Belmond with the thought it could rebrand them again