Choice to open hotel in Yogyakarta

JAKARTA (JP): Choice Hotels Indonesia announced that its first "comfort-branded" hotel, the Sejahtera Comfort Suites, will have its soft opening in Yogyakarta at the end of December.

Executive Chairman of Choice Hotels Indonesia David Schaefer said that the Sejahtera Comfort Suites Yogyakarta will join the existing network of its five Clarion and Quality branded hotels.

"We forecast adding five more hotels to our network, bringing our total to 13 hotels with over 2,200 rooms in 1997 and two more hotels in 1998," Schaefer said in a statement yesterday.

The Sejahtera Comfort Suites Yogyakarta has 72 two-bedroom suites, 48 three-bedroom suites and 10 penthouses equipped with satellite TV, smoke detectors, kitchenette facilities and international direct-dial facilities.

He said that a further management agreement has been signed with PT Sejahtera Garden for the development of another 410-unit property in Surabaya, East Java.

Choice Hotels Indonesia is the master franchiser in Indonesia for the Choice Hotels International chain which currently manages 3,400 hotels in 38 countries.(04)