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Hotel Roundup |
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Source: Manila Bulletin |
Author: None |
Date: 2001-01-06 |
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Heritage Hotel welcomes the New Year
The Heritage Hotel Manila welcomes year 2001 and the
Year of the Snake with a slice of the good life and an
Oriental twist.
From Jan. 17-24, tikoy and radish cakes will be available
for sale at the lobby. On Jan. 23-31, guests are invited
to celebrate the Chinese New Year with family and
friends as the hotel’s Hua Ting Cantonese Restaurant
features set menus for 4, 6, 8 or 10 persons.
Guests can also try the hotel’s special drink and cake for
this month. Dubbed “Mellow Breeze”, the drink is a blend
of chilled mango juice, guava passion and guyabano. It
also comes with an adorable Pokemon stuffed toy. Called
“Interlude,” this dark chocolate sponge cake is a sweet
symphony of Japonaise (crisp biscuit with cashew nuts)
and white chocolate filling, flavored with Galliano, coffee
chocolate cream and iced with chocolate couverture.
Westin awards another Starwood
Preferred Planner
The Westin Philippine Plaza recently pinned Marketlink
with a Starwood Preferred Planner (SPP) pin giving the
pharmaceutical company preferential status and VIP
treatment in 725 starwood hotels worldwide.
Starwood Preferred Planner is a program that delivers the
rewards to meeting and event organizers with Starpoints.
Nominated members can enjoy free nights around the
world, free flights, room upgrades and more.
Marketlink is the first pharmaceutical company awarded
with the SPP pin among only 50 of the hotel’s top
meeting organizers. The company recently held their
national sales conference at The Westin.
Photo shows Carmelita Palomique, Internal Affairs
manager of Marketlink (3rd from left) receiving the pin
from Ariel Chavarria, director of Sales of The Westin (2nd
from left). Looking on are (from left): Faye Babar,
Corporate Sales manager of The Westin; Antoinette
Rasing, Internal Affairs supervisor of Marketlink; and Ria
Galvez, Convention Services manager of The Westin.
Japanese media group at Mandarin Oriental
Mandarin Oriental, Manila hosted a dinner for a Japanese
media group who were recently in Cebu and Manila for a
familiarization trip organized by Baron Travel and PAL.
The visit was held to promote the airline’s additional
flights from Fukuoka, Japan to the Philippines. Koichi
Tanaka, Mandarin Oriental sales manager (standing,
extreme right), welcomed the group headed by (from left,
standing): Tatsuo Isobel, VP of Baron Travel; Osamu
Sumimoto, general manager of PAL Fukuoka; and
Shigenori Arita, president of Air World.
Shangri-La Group to open three hotels in
China
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts recently announced three
new management agreements within China in Nanjing,
Zhongshan and Zhengzhou, strengthening further the
group’s dominant position in the mainland where it already
has 15 hotels and 7,000 rooms.
These newly-built hotels are part of Shangri-La’s plans to
double the number of hotels it operates by 2005 from
existing 37 properties.
Slated to open early this year is the five-star
460-bedroom ShangriLa Dingshan Nanjing which is 40
minutes from Nanjing international airport and within close
proximity of the business and cultural districts. Located in
a garden setting, the hotel will have expensive views
across the Yangtse river and the city, with many rooms,
which range from 40 to 60 square meters, featuring
balconies.
The 264-bedroom Shangri-La Zhongshan in southern
China, opening late 2001, is only one and half hour by
ferry from Hong Kong and 15 minutes from the ferry port.
The hotel’s recreation facilities are extensive with two
squash courts, a 16-lane bowling alley, an outdoor
swimming pool, eight outdoor tennis courts, four
badminton courts, a gymnasium, games’ room, sauna and
steam room.
The 14-storey Shangri-La Hotel Zhengzhou, situated in
the heart of the capital of Henan province in the center
of China, will open early 2002. The hotel will have 280
spacious guestrooms and suites, a ballroom, a number of
meeting and breakout rooms as well as a wide range of
leisure facilities.
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