General Hotel plans expansion in Indonesia

General Hotel plans expansion in Indonesia

JAKARTA (JP): General Hotel Management, a Singapore-based
hotel and resort management firm, plans to expand its business in
Indonesia to a total of 10 hotels by 1997.

Company executive Mark A. Edleson said here yesterday that
General Hotel Management currently runs two hotels and one
executive club in Indonesia.

"General Hotel Management currently operates Chedi Hotel in
Bandung, West Java, and Serai Hotel in Karangasem, Bali. The only
club we currently manage is the Financial Club in Jakarta," he
said.

Edleson added that General Hotel Management will manage two
additional hotels next year -- Chedi Hotel in Ubud and Legian
Hotel -- both in Bali.

General Hotel Management, established in 1992, also manages
the Datai hotel in Langkawi, Malaysia, and the Chedi hotel in
Phuket, Thailand. The company uses Chedi for four-star hotels and
Serai for three-star hotels.

Edleson said the other hotels in Indonesia to be managed by
General Hotel Management will be located in Sulawesi and other
areas in the country's eastern region.

He said that the hotels in Indonesia to be managed by General
Hotel Management are partly owned by PT NusaPacific Island
Development, a joint venture company owned by Nusa Pacific
International of Singapore and Indonesian businessmen. Nusa
Pacific International itself is jointly owned by Singaporean and
Indonesian parties.

"NusaPacific owns 53 percent and 40 percent respectively of
the Chedi Bandung and Serai Hotel. The company also owns 80
percent of the Chedi Ubud," Edleson said.

He added that the planned five-star Legian Hotel is controlled
by businessman Robby Djohan.

In addition to General Hotel Management, there are three other
Singapore-based hotel chains which plan expansion in Indonesia:
Pacific Hotels International, Aquila International Hotels and
Resorts and Sedona Hotels International.

Sedona, affiliated with Straits Steamship Land, plans to
operate a number of other hotels throughout the country within
the next few years. It already runs two hotels in Indonesia, one
in Padang, West Sumatra, and one on the island of Batam in Riau.

Aquila, whose majority stakes are owned by Indonesian
businessmen, plans to manage more hotels in addition to its two
hotels in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, while Pacific Hotels
International, which runs the Purajaya Beach Resort in Batam,
will also expand to Medan, North Sumatra. (icn)