Accor to open new hotels

Accor to open new hotels

JAKARTA (JP): Accor Asia Pacific Corporation, which operates hotels worldwide, will expand its Indonesian network to eight hotels by opening six new ones next year.

The company, which has a network of 2,300 hotels in 135 countries, announced here yesterday that one of the new Indonesian hotels -- Novotel Benoa Bali -- will open in the middle of next year.

Accor said that it had signed a contract with Kaestindo Group to manage the 200-room hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali.

The other five hotels that are due to be opened next year are Novotel Soechi Medan in North Sumatra, Novotel Jambi in Jambi, Novotel Toraja in South Sulawesi, Novotel Manado in North Sulawesi and Novotel Batam in Riau. The two hotels already in operation are Novotel Surabaya in East Java and Novotel Bukittinggi in West Sumatra. (13)