Countdown ① | Grand Opening of AMTD House and AMTD Hotel in Davos to warmly welcome guests from all over the world

Elite gathering on snow mountaintop. 2020 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will be held in Davos, Switzerland from January 21th to 24th. This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the World Economic Forum. The theme of this year’s Davos Annual Meeting is "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World". The participants include Han Zheng, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice-Premier of the People’s Republic of China; Donald Trump, President of the United States of America; Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany; Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy; Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore; Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission; Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations and other representatives from political and government delegations, business leaders, academic representatives, art and media leaders.

AMTD Group, as the only Hong Kong-based financial institution among the World Economic Forum Strategic Partner Associates, will set up the “AMTD House” at the Davos Forum for the third consecutive year. In addition, AMTD will host a series of theme activities including “Smart Asia: Connecting Greater Bay Area with ASEAN” and “Greater Bay Area Young Entrepreneur Day” etc., to comprehensively introduce the achievements of China's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in promoting digital technology innovation and regional economic development. Furthermore, AMTD will also specially open the “AMTD Hotel” this year to welcome global partners and friends of “AMTD SpiderNet”.

1 Davos·AMTD House

AMTD Group, as the only Hong Kong-based financial institution among the World Economic Forum Strategic Partner Associates, will set up the “AMTD House” at the Davos Forum for the third consecutive year. AMTD Group is the first ever Hong Kong company and one of the few Chinese corporations that has set up its corporate center at the Davos World Economic Forum for three consecutive years to demonstrate the achievements of Hong Kong enterprises to global political and business leaders.

Located on the Promenade, the main street of Davos, AMTD House is just a five-minute walk from the main venue of Davos Forum and sits next to the corporate center of Nasdaq, HSBC, Zurich Insurance Group, Google, Facebook and other corporations. AMTD House will officially open on January 21. During the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, we will hold various activities at AMTD House and invite many friends to have talks on Hong Kong’s role in connecting the Greater Bay Area with Asia &the world to obtain innovation and further development in the new era.

2 Davos·AMTD Hotel

Not only that, AMTD also opened the "Davos·AMTD Hotel" - AMTD Hotel Parsenn in Davos for the first time this year. This is also the third hotel opened by AMTD Property Development Group after the establishment of AMTD Oakwood Premier Hotel in Singapore and AMTD iClub Hotel II in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.

Davos·AMTD Hotel Parsenn is one of the oldest hotels with Swiss features in Davos. We will host partners from all over the world and friends & families from our AMTD SpiderNet here!