{"id":58558,"date":"2021-01-21T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=58558"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:48:20","slug":"makati-shangri-la-to-shut-down-temporarily-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2021\/01\/21\/makati-shangri-la-to-shut-down-temporarily-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Makati Shangri-La to shut down &#8216;temporarily&#8217; next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hotel chain operator <strong>Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts<\/strong> is &#8216;temporarily&#8217; closing its branch in Makati next month as\u00a0the COVID-19 pandemic continues to batter the hotel industry due to extended lockdowns and uncertain business conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58561\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/rsz_makati_shangri-la.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/rsz_makati_shangri-la.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/rsz_makati_shangri-la-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/rsz_makati_shangri-la-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE from Makati- Shangri-La, Manila Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shangri-La Group vice president\u00a0for\u00a0Philippine operations <strong>John Rice<\/strong> said that <strong>Makati Shangri-La will temporarily close starting\u00a0next month<\/strong>,\u00a0but it could reopen at a later date when business conditions have improved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite our best efforts, the prolonged recovery timeline has resulted in increasing financial pressure on the company here in the Philippines,&#8221; wrote Rice in a statement. He added that as\u00a0part of the reorganization exercise, they will sadly be parting ways with a number of colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Shangri-La said in a statement that it has already tried managing costs by implementing salary reductions at the management level, shorter work weeks, hiring freeze, and cuts in non-essential spending.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44185\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/Shangri-La.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/Shangri-La.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/Shangri-La-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/Shangri-La-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nonetheless, the management assured that fair compensation package will be provided to those who will be laid off and they will extend their health care coverage and grocery support until the end of the year.<\/div>\n<p>Since 1993, Makati Shangri-La has been known for hosting\u00a0lavish events and parties such as the ABS-CBN Ball.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from its Makati branch, Shangri-La also operates Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Ortigas, Shangri-La at the Fort in Taguig City, Shangri-La\u2019s Boracay Resort, and Spa, Shangri-La\u2019s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Shangri-La Group&#8217;s statement<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makati Shangri-La will cease its operations starting next month due to uncertain business conditions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[12848,229,12094,14373],"class_list":["post-58558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-covid-19","tag-hotel","tag-makati-shangri-la","tag-shut-down"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/rsz_1makati_shangri-la.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58558"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58569,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58558\/revisions\/58569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}