Choice Hotels offers more rooms

Choice Hotels offers more rooms

JAKARTA (JP): PT Choice Hotels Indonesia, the master
franchiser in Indonesia for the Choice Hotels International
chain, has opened a new hotel in Batam, in the Riau province, and
additional apartment-hotel units in Yogyakarta.

A spokesperson for Choice, Dina Herdiana, said yesterday the
hotel in Batam, called Quality Resort Batam, would open 50 rooms
by the end of the month, during its soft operation.

The 170-room hotel, located within Batam's waterfront city, is
to have its grand opening by mid-1997.

The four-star hotel is owned by PT Marina City Development.

Batam, located 20 kilometers southeast of Singapore, has been
developed since the early 1970s as an industrial and tourist
center.

Meanwhile, the Comfort Suites Yogyakarta, a Choice apartment-
hotel in Yogyakarta, earlier this month opened 32 additional
units, bringing a total of 75 rooms.

The property, owned by PT Sejahtera Garden Resort Hotel, has
operated 36 units with a total 80 rooms since 1995.

The Comfort Suites Yogyakarta planned to open 130 units by end
of this year.

Unlike other star-rated hotels in Yogyakarta, Comfort Suites
offered unique facilities -- a combination of a hotel rooms and
serviced apartments -- and targeted long-stay guests as its
customers on a monthly basis.

Choice, affiliated with the United States Choice Hotels
International, currently operates five hotels in Indonesia
located in Pacung and Taman Mumbul (both in Bali), Parapat (North
Sumatra), Yogyakarta and Bandung (West Java).

In addition to the Quality Resort Batam, Choice expected to
open later this year four hotels located in Carita (West Java)
and Surabaya (East Java), Soekarno-Hatta airport and on Jl.
Juanda in Jakarta; three others, in Jakarta, Palembang (South
Sumatra) and Bogor (West Java) would open next year. (icn)