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2008-0103 - Xinhua - Chinese firm to build five-star hotel in Laos

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/03/content_7360351.htm

Chinese firm to build five-star hotel in Laos

www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-03 17:17:25

HANOI, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Yunnan Copper Mining, a Chinese
state-owned company, is scheduled to start construction of a
five-star hotel with investment of 5 million U.S. dollars in
Laos' Luang Prabang province, one of the country's hottest
destinations for foreign tourists, in August, according to Lao
newspaper Vientiane Times on Thursday.

Covering an area of 40 hectares, the 200-room hotel will
feature Lao traditional architecture to maintain the charm of
the world heritage town of Luang Prabang in the northern
province, and include a gym, entertainment venues, a
healthcare center and sport clubs.

Deputy director of the Luang Prabang Tourism Administration,
Khamtan Somphanvilay, said investment of Chinese companies in
tourism facilities in the province was initiated in 2006 when
Lao President Choummaly Sayasone visited the Chinese province
of Yunnan.

The Luang Prabang province is now home to 178 guesthouses with
2,000 rooms and 30 hotels with 600 rooms. The maximum number
of tourists it is able to host is around 3,000 people, said
president of the Guesthouse and Hotel Association in Luang
Prabang, Khoun Chanthaboupha.

Editor: Jiang Yuxia

Copyright ©2003 Xinhua News Agency. All rights reserved.

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