Wonosobo hotel agreement

Wonosobo hotel agreement

JAKARTA (JP): PT Southern Pacific Indonesia, a subsidiary of
Australia's Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., will run Centra
Wonosobo, a star-rated hotel in the city of Wonosobo, which is on
the Dieng plateau in Central Java.

Southern Pacific Indonesia announced over the weekend that a
management agreement was signed here Friday between Southern
Pacific Indonesia and PT Kresna Duta Wisata, a subsidiary of the
Kresna Duta group, which owns the hotel previously known as Hotel
Merdeka.

The hotel, originally built during the colonial era, is
expected to open under the new management in October 1997.

Kresna's president, Bambang J. Soegama, said that the 115-room
hotel will serve both domestic and overseas tourists looking for
weekend recreation and business transactions.

Southern Pacific Indonesia's director of operations, Edwin
Bucher, said that the hotel will also offer convention
facilities.

Southern Pacific Indonesia, owned by the Jan Darmadi group and
Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation of Australia, currently runs
Ancol Travelodge hotel in Jakarta and Sanur Bali Travelodge hotel
in Bali. The company will also manage other hotels located in
Jakarta, and in Batu and Surabaya in East Java and Semarang in
Central Java. (icn)