Westin to enter Jakarta

Westin to enter Jakarta

JAKARTA (JP): Westin Hotels and Resorts, a hotel management firm based in the United States, will sign next Tuesday an agreement with PT Wisma Kartika to manage a five-star hotel in Jakarta.

Westin's director of advertising and public relations for the Asia-Pacific region, Nelli Yong, said yesterday that the planned five-star hotel will be built later this year on the site of the Hotel Kartika Plaza on Jl. Thamrin.

"Kartika Plaza, which is owned by Wisma Kartika, will be destroyed. The new hotel, called the Westin Jakarta, will offer 520 rooms," she said, adding that negotiations between the two companies began several years ago.

Westin, running 80 hotels worldwide, is currently preparing the grand opening of the Westin Surabaya, its first hotel in Indonesia, which is located in Surabaya, East Java. (icn)