Aston to Open New Hotel and Conference Center in Palembang, Sumatra

Aston is to open a new 4-star hotel and conference center in Palembang, just in time for the 2011 SEA Games.

The Aston Palembang Hotel & Conference Center is set to open in summer of this year and will be half way between Palembang’s airport and the Central Business District on Jalan Basuki Rahmat serving Palembang’s growing business travel and conference market as well as domestic leisure travelers from the surrounding areas.

The hotel will will offer 147 guest rooms and suites and feature extensive meeting facilities such as a large ballroom with a capacity of up to 600 guests and several auxiliary meeting rooms.

Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing Aston International, said, “This newest Aston Hotel & Conference Center fits perfectly into our goal of becoming Indonesia’s leading hotel group for meetings and conferences by developing mid seized international standard 4-star hotels with sophisticated meeting facilities throughout several Indonesian provincial capitals and secondary cities. In the past 15 months we opened similar properties in Pontianak, Serpong, Bogor, Bandung , Jayapura and most recently in Banka and have further Aston Hotels & Conference Centers under construction in Solo, Purwokerto , Jambi, Makassar and Banjarmasin.”

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