Wyndham Premium Brand Hotel ‘Wyndham Grand’ to Open in Georgia

The construction of the unique former Rixos hotel on Gudiashvili Street, Tbilisi, is nearing an end. The project has seen a $45 million investment and has been organically integrated with neighboring historical buildings on the list of cultural heritage.

The hotel will open under the name of Wyndham’s premium brand ‘Wyndham Grand.’ The entrance of the chain on the Georgian market is said to be yet more proof of the country’s attractiveness and special potential.

On September 17, the signing ceremony between the former shareholder of Rixos, City M’s Director Gocha Gvenetadze, a representative of its Board of Directors, Itsik Moshe, and a representative of Wyndham, was held at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel.

According to Gvenetadze, the Wyndham Grand hotel will soon be opened, and its guests will have 161 high-standard rooms to choose from. When the Wyndham brand decided to take over the project from Rixos, they requested some changes to the building, namely in the design of the meeting rooms and restaurants, which City M approved.

According to Moshe, the former Rixos Tbilisi building was built using modern technologies that are almost unprecedented in Georgian reality. Local constructors working on the project gained a lot of experience, which is the prerequisite for using local workforces in future projects of such scale. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives of the business sector, National Tourism Administration of Georgia, architects and engineers from Israel, and Georgian media.

By Mariam Merabishvili