Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts (Chinese: 香格里拉酒店) is a multinational hospitality company, founded in 1971 by tycoon Robert Kuok and bearing the name of a Far Eastern mythical land of contentment depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon.

It is a subsidiary of Kerry Properties, the company has over 100 luxury hotels and resorts with over 40,000 rooms in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Oceania.

[2] The company's head office is in Kerry Centre [zh] (嘉里中心), Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.

[4] The name derives from the mythical place Shangri-La, described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton.

[6] This hotel has also become the host to a prominent inter-governmental security conference known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.

Shangri-La in Kuala Lumpur