it could easily be that owner used zecha for opening PR (and training) and thats it. seem to recall vuittonsofstyle saying that happened quite a while ago with FS in india. issue is azerai accepting owner/contract in first place. may go the way of GHM. aman (and peninsula and MO) owned for a reason, aman was lucky lee hing and DLF were hands off, and had good owner(s) take over sveti stefan and venice.

GHM accepted sakala for example, then started selling joint ventures

several aman (pulo, gani, yara, puri) started low season rates prior to 2006 (only own puri)