Sedona Makassar to open

Sedona Makassar to open

JAKARTA (JP): Ujungpandang, the capital of South Sulawesi,
will have a new star-rated hotel, the Sedona Makassar, in
November.

The 230-room Sedona Makassar will offer special rates for
three months.

Ujungpandang has been chosen by the government as one of the
country's three major air transport hubs together with Jakarta
and Medan, North Sumatra. Star-rated hotels are therefore needed
to accommodate the increasing number of foreign tourists in the
province.

Ujungpandang currently has only a few star-rated hotels,
including the Makassar Golden, the Marannu and the Radisson.

A number of hotel chains plan to open hotels there within the
next few years, including Novotel and Sahid International.

Sedona Hotels International is affiliated with Straits
Steamship Land (SSL) of Singapore which is currently also
developing the Sedona Dive Resort in Manado, North Sulawesi,
jointly with the Salim Group of Indonesia and Singapore Airlines.

Sedona, established in 1994, also manages a number of other
hotels in Padang (West Sumatra), Bintan (Riau) and Sydney,
Australia. (icn)