JAL Hotels Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; President: Katsumi Chiyo) has announced that the company and its joint venture company in China, BTG Nikko International Hotel Management Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Beijing, China; Chairman: Yang Jin Shan), signed a hotel management contract with Suzhou New District Commercial & Tourism Development Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China; General Manager：He Xiao Dong） to open Hotel Nikko Suzhou in 2013. The five-star hotel will be built in the center of Suzhou. JAL Hotels announced at the same time that it has signed another agreement to provide technical assistance and open Suzhou Qingshan Resort Hotel (tentative name) , currently under construction in a suburb of Suzhou, in October, 2010. With these two additional hotels, JAL Hotels will be operating 11 Nikko Hotels International properties in China.