Metropolitan Group opens hotel in Bekasi
JAKARTA (JP): PT Metropolitan Development is scheduled today to open its fourth Horison Hotel in Bekasi, about 30 kilometers east of Jakarta.
The four-star hotel, which is integrated with the Metropolitan Mall shopping center, will offer 111 rooms during the first few months of its operation before its grand opening in August.
The company's executive director Nanda Widya said here yesterday that the construction of the 200-room hotel and shopping center cost Rp 125 billion (US$58.17 million).
"The construction of the two facilities on a 3.5-hectare plot started in July 1992. The Metropolitan Mall was completed last November," he said, adding that his company will soon construct a car park and apartments near the location.
"We chose Bekasi as the site for our fourth hotel because of its promising growth as many industrial estates are being developed there," he said.
Nanda said the hotel industry in Bekasi will grow in line with the rapid expansion of industrial activities.
The Horison Hotel is the first four-star rated hotel to be built in Bekasi.
Nanda said some other star-rated hotels will also open in Bekasi in the near future.
Metropolitan Development, which operates mainly in real estate and housing development, is already managing one two-star and two four-star hotels under the name of Horison at Ancol dreamland in North Jakarta, in the West Java capital of Bandung and in Bengkulu in the southern part of Sumatra.
The company also holds a 50-percent stake in the Park Royale apartments, 25-percent in the Kartika Chandra Hotel and 11- percent in the Mandarin Hotel.
Nanda said his company will also open a five-star Horison Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, which is now under construction. Plans for the construction of another hotel in Yogyakarta have been suspended.
He explained that the $35 million Hanoi hotel, which will open at the end of 1996, will be operated by Global Toserco, a joint venture 80 percent owned by an Indonesian consortium of four companies, including Metropolitan Development, and 20 percent by Vietnam's Tourism Service Company.(icn)