Wayspot Title: East Asia Hotel
Location: 31.237522,121.473586
City: Shanghai
Country: China
Screenshot of the Rejection Email:
Google translated news article about the hotel:
https://kknews-cc.translate.goog/zh-sg/travel/684gqyl.html?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The original East Asia Hotel, which opened in 1917, was transformed into a Jinjiang Star hotel in 2013. The Jinjiang Star is a hotel franchise, so the new hotel no longer bears the history of the old East Asia Hotel:
Indeed, among the Wayspot photos, only one of them shows the sign of East Asia Hotel. The others, including the main photo, only shows Jinjiang Star Hotel.
This hotel is now generic and not an interesting POI.
EDIT: Why do I insist on removing this POI? Because this Wayspot shares the same building as a nearby Wayspot, 时装商店 (Shanghai Fashion Store, 31.238001,121.474214). Ten years ago, the hotel and the fashion store were both at this building. The two Wayspots’ photos are even showing the same rooftop tower:
But now, the old hotel is closed, and the fashion store is the only interesting merchant in this building, and therefore more suitable as a Wayspot to represent this building. In conclusion, they are duplicates, and 时装商店 is a better one to remain.