Int'l Hyatt Regency to open in Yogyakarta

JAKARTA (JP): United States hotel chain Hyatt International Hotels will open a five-star, 269-room hotel in Yogyakarta in September.

The hotel will be called the Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta.

The general manager of the Yogyakarta hotel, Juergen von Massow, said Saturday that the hotel's facilities would include a 9-hole golf course with a flood-lit driving range, four restaurants and bars, a multilevel free form water slide, a spa area and Camp Hyatt, a children's play complex.

The hotel is uniquely patterned after Borobudur, the world's biggest Buddhist, which was built in Magelang, Central Java, in the 13th century.

The rooms will include a presidential suite, two executive suites and six junior suites.

Yogyakarta now has two five-star hotels -- Sheraton Mustika and Melia Purosani -- which have 490 rooms.

In 1996 there were 665 accommodation places in Yogyakarta with 8,918 rooms. This is a 1.4 percent rise on 1995.

The number of foreign tourists staying in Yogyakarta from January to November rose 242,000 in 1995 to about 265,000 in 1996. The number of local tourists rose from 142,000 to 164,000.

Foreign visitors spent an average of 1.7 days in Yogyakarta and domestic visitors an average of 1.8 days.

For comparison, foreign tourists in Indonesia stayed for an average of 2.72 days and domestic tourists 1.9 days.

The number of foreign visitors to Indonesia rose from 4.32 million in 1995 to 4.78 million in 1996.

Besides the Yogyakarta hotel, Hyatt International Hotels manages five other hotels in Indonesia -- Surabaya's Hyatt Regency, the Grand Hyatt and Aryaduta in Jakarta and Bali's Grand Hyatt and Bali Hyatt. (10)