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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Mactan resort adds more rooms, plans to expand wellness facilities
In respose to the increasing demand for spa and wellness services, Filipino-owned Plantation Bay Resort and Spa has allocated a substantial amount this year for the expansion of its spa and wellness facility.
This, after it spent a “substantial amount” for the construction of four more rooms that increased the resort’s room capacity to 224, according to Plantation Bay general manager Efren Belarmino.
Priority
He told a press conference last Thursday that the expansion of the area and adding more spa rooms to the eight rooms at Mo-gambo Springs, within Plantation Bay, is one of the priority projects of the five-star resort this year.
“The expansion is due to the increasing demand for the spa and wellness service of our house guests alone. Some of them go to Mogambo Springs and spend their money on spa everyday while in the resort,” Belarmino said.
He admitted that service rates at Mogambo Springs and the room rates of the eight-hectare resort are high.
Experience
“But we are not selling the rates. We are selling the experience,” Belarmino said.
Earlier, Hilton Internatio-nal president for the Middle East and Asia Pacific operation Koos Klein said Cebu does not have to project itself as a cheap tourist destination to be able to compete with other international destinations such as Phuket, Thailand and Singapore.
Belarmino also said Plantation Bay performed well last year with occupancy averaging at 84 percent. Most of the guests were Koreans and Japanese.
But locals, mostly balik-bayans, remain on top of the list with the highest number of arrivals. (JBN)
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