Hotels take part in Royal TIME 2004

Hotels take part in Royal TIME 2004

YOGYAKARTA: The Royal Tourism Indonesia Mart & Expo (TIME) 2004 -- held here from Sept. 26 to Sept. 29 -- has inspired the city's tourist industry to take advantage of it, by promoting themselves to as many participants of TIME as possible, including buyers and the media.

Rumah Sleman Private Boutique Hotel on Jl. Purboyo in Sleman, for example, invited both national and international journalists covering the event to a dinner at the hotel that offers the beauty of Joglo, a Javanese traditional house, on September 26.

"Some 30 foreign journalists and 10 national journalists attended the dinner," the hotel's marketing officer Rani Febriana said.

The Grand Mercure Yogyakarta Accor hotel, on Jl. Sudirman, hosted a Late Night Function Cocktail Party for Royal TIME participants on Sept. 28, jointly held with TTG Asia magazine in the hotel's poolside area, from 10.30 p.m. until midnight.

Held under the theme Sweet Yogya, the party offered various traditional foods, drinks and fresh fruit. The host of the party was the director of operations at Accor Indonesia, Gerard Guillouet.

Mercure also prepared five booths for the other Accor hotels in the country at the event, including those of Greater Jakarta, Central Java, East Java, Bali-Lombok and Sumatra.

The Grand Mercure also hosted a Welcome Dinner on Sept. 27 at the Prambanan Temple compound.

A similar program was held by the Jogjakarta Plaza Hotel, with the provision of snacks and drinks for the coffee break at the business mart of the Jogja Expo Center, where Royal TIME 2004 was held. --JP