Hainan Rendez-Vous 2011 – a 4-day event which showcased some of the region’s most luxurious superyachts and business jets – came to a end last Monday and was an overwhelming success.

Apart from the attendance of 70 CEOs from China’s leading listed companies, 185 exhibition booths were set up and nearly one hundred yachts and superyachts docked for the show along the riverbank outside the yacht club. With the 2011 edition having twice as many exhibitors as the previous year, Hainan Rendez-Vous generated several billion RMB worth of transactions.

Dephine Lignieres, founder and CEO of China Rendez-Vous Ltd., was thrilled with the show’s success,

“Hainan Rendez Vous is just in its second year, but we somehow managed to take this 2011 show to a whole new level. No other show in the region has yet offered the services we are offering to exhibitors. I sincerely thank them for the trust they have placed in us these past years, and I look forward to bringing them even better shows in the years to come in other great cities in China”.

Social event highlights included gala dinners, pool parties and several cocktail parties organised on board the amazing boats displayed along the marina.

The Hainan Rendez-Vous 2011 was without doubt an economic boon for Sanya, a city that seeks to become an international yachting hub and prime international tourism destination. These aspirations are reflected in the city’s recent commissioning of NDA, an architectural design firm and leader in waterfront projects, to oversee a development master plan that involves the building of ten main marinas and a total 6,000 berths in ten years’ time.