roomKOMPAS.com-Only in three years, the number of rooms star hotels in Bandung, West Java doubled. Competition in Bandung bermunculannya tighter with new hotels, the tourism business but remain optimistic.

According to General Manager of Novotel Bandung Engkun Kurnia birthday celebration after the 3rd Novotel Bandung in Bandung, Thursday (15/10), when the Novotel opened in 2006, there were about 1,500 room five-star hotel in Bandung. Currently, the number was in the range of room 3400.

Nevertheless, the challenge is also faced with a sense of optimism given the prospect of tourism in Bandung, which is considered still bright. Novotel Bandung is also raising the target level of hotel occupancy in 2010 to 78 percent.

“If until September 2009, occupancy rates of 76 percent. Meanwhile, the average occupancy rate star hotels in Bandung, about 65 percent,” he said. The hotel occupancy rate nonbintang no more than 60 percent.

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