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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Hilton Cebu Resort to soft open in July; 400 workers needed: GM
HILTON Cebu Resort and Towers will have its soft opening in July, according to an official of the hotel and residential project in Mactan.
An initial 180 hotel rooms will be made available, with the remaining 70 rooms to follow later, general manager Ralph Wehner told Sun.Star yesterday.
The grand opening is slated toward the end of the year.
The Hilton Cebu project involves a 17-story residential tower with 114 units and a 22-story hotel tower. A third tower has been started. It will have 20 stories and contain residential units and the units reserved for the resort’s club members.
According to Wehner, the residences in the first tower are already “fully operational.”
They have been completed and residents will be moving in by April. Some unit owners are doing the interior designing themselves, he said.
As for the hotel tower, 40 percent of the units are owned by investors.
The local tourism industry has been eagerly awaiting the opening of Hilton Cebu, after the increase in foreign tourists to Cebu increased the need for hotel rooms.
DOT 7 Regional Director Patria Aurora Roa said the DOT had received complaints from Koreans regarding the unavailability of resort rooms.
Last October, she said, she had to advise a Korean tour operator not to organize a tour in Cebu because there were no more rooms available.
Tourists
Wehner said Hilton Cebu expects half of its business to come from foreign tourists, with the rest coming from local corporate meetings and leisure travelers.
The resort has convention facilities that can accommodate 350 to 400 people.
He assured that Hilton would offer “competitive rates” that will be similar to what the hotels in Mactan, like Shangri-La’s Mactan Island Resort, offer.
When the entire Hilton Cebu project becomes operational, a staff of 400 people will be needed to run it.
“We have started recruiting, but we are only recruiting department heads at the moment,” he said.
Hilton Cebu is a joint undertaking of Cebu-based Goldland Philippines Corp. and global hotel operator Hilton International.
The resort will have aqua sports and diving facilities, a yacht club, spa and health club, restaurant, pool bar, ballroom, meeting rooms and shops.
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(March 24, 2004 issue)
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