Seminar on hotel, restaurant

Seminar on hotel, restaurant

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant
Association's Jakarta chapter will hold its quadrennial general
assembly and a seminar on "strategies to improve services in the
free trade era" next Monday.

Chairman Arman R. Iskandar said here yesterday the seminar
would be at the Gran Melia hotel. Speakers will include Minister
of Administrative Reforms T.B. Silalahi, Dusit Mangga Dua hotel's
general manager Christopher L. Green and restaurateur Emma S.
Wirakusumah.

He said Indonesia had originally had a competitive edge in the
hospitality industry.

"But we have to improve our skills and general abilities in
serving people by mastering more foreign languages. We also have
to learn how to provide and maintain cleanliness," he said.

Executive H.R.S. Widodo said hotel and restaurant owners will
also call on the government to make better regulations. (icn)