Tune Hotel to open in Ipoh in March

Ipoh will have another impressive landmark when value hotel chain, Tune Hotels Group, opens its new hotel in the city in March 2012. The hotel on Jalan Veerasamy will be the group’s 11th property in Malaysia.

In welcoming this new development, Datuk Bandar Datuk Roshidi Hashim said the state’s tourism industry would benefit from the opening of a Tune Hotel in Ipoh, more so with Visit Perak Year 2012 approaching.

Picture perfect: Lankester (left) presenting a framed picture of an artist’s impression of the Ipoh Tune Hotel to Roshidi (right) as Liew (centre) and city councillor A. Sabramani look on during a signing ceremony between both groups recently.

“The opening of the hotel is very much anticipated. It will give tourists and visitors an option of premium accommodation at affordable rates,” Roshidi said after witnessing the signing of an agreement between Tune Hotels and the Liew Yin Yin Group in Ipoh last Friday. Tune Hotels was represented by its chief executive officer Mark Lankester while Don Liew Mun Hon signed on behalf of Liew Yin Yin.

Lankester said Tune Hotels was looking forward to participating actively in the local travel and tourism scene. “We have always stated our aim of providing the most complete coverage for travellers and businesses within Malaysia and the establishment of Tune Hotel Ipoh is a further step in that direction,” he said.

Tune Hotel Ipoh will have 121 rooms including 84 double rooms, 36 twin rooms and one wheelchair-friendly room. As an added convenience, especially for families with underage d children, interconnecting rooms are being introduced for the first time at its upcoming property in Ipoh.

-thestar online.