Hotels asked not to raise rates during air show<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The government has called on star-rated hotels
\nin the city not to raise their room rates during the Indonesian
\nAir Show '96, which will be held on June 22 to June 30 this year.<\/p>\n
Director of accommodation of the Directorate General of
\nTourism, Acep Hidayat, said yesterday that the image of the
\ncountry's tourism will be hampered if hotels raise their room
\nrates during the international event.<\/p>\n
\"Please, don't arrange the room rates as you like. You should
\nalso set everything well, like elevators, water supply and so on,
\nespecially for the hotels which are still preparing their grand
\nopenings,\" he told hoteliers after attending a ceremony for the
\nsigning of agreements between 26 hotels and the air show
\norganizers for hospitality services.<\/p>\n
He said the hotels should also compare room rates with hotels
\nin other Southeast Asian countries.<\/p>\n
Many tourism and travel executives in the country admit hotel
\nroom rates in Indonesia are the most expensive in Southeast
\nAsia.<\/p>\n
However, many hotels, both in developed and developing
\ncountries, increase their room rates during international events.
\nIn Germany and Colombia, for instance, several hotels raised
\ntheir room rates during the Hanover Fair and the Non-Aligned
\nMovement summit last year.<\/p>\n
The 26 star-rated hotels, which signed agreements with the air
\nshow organizing committee, promised to provide special corporate
\nrates during the period of June 22 to June 30.<\/p>\n
Corporate rates<\/p>\n
\"Corporate rates are usually 25 percent or 30 percent lower
\nthan the published rates,\" said Sahid Jaya Hotel's manager A.
\nFerdy, who represented the 26 hotels in the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n
He said that the 26 hotels, mostly the city's four-star and
\nfive-star properties, will offer between 3,000 and 5,000 rooms
\nduring the international event.<\/p>\n
The air show, to be held at Terminal 3 of the Soekarno-Hatta
\nairport, is organized by PT Produk Indonesia, a company set up to
\npromote and organize Indonesian products.<\/p>\n
Chief operating officer of the air show, Thareq K. Habibie,
\nsaid here yesterday that the event would be the second air show to
\nbe held in Indonesia after the first one in 1986.<\/p>\n
Thareq, who is a son of State Minister of Research and
\nTechnology B.J. Habibie, said that some 2.5 million people
\nvisited the air show in 1986 and there will be more visitors in
\nthis year's air show.<\/p>\n
President Soeharto is scheduled to open the event, which will
\nbe situated on a 130-hectare site.<\/p>\n
About 600 exhibitors from the United States, Germany, Russia,
\nFrance, Italy, Canada and other nations, are expected to take
\npart in the show, which will include an aerobatics festival as
\nwell as a symposium on aeronautical science and technology. (icn)<\/p>",
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