Taipei - A Taiwan business tycoon said Thursday he will
build Taiwan's most-luxurious hotel, modelled on the sail-shaped
Burj-al-Arab (Arab Tower) in Dubai.
Tang Wen-wan, president of the Tuck More Biotechnology Co, said he
successfully applied to build the hotel by the Sun Moon Lake in
Nantou County, central Taiwan.
One end of the 10-storey hotel would be a sail, like Burj-al-Arab.
The sail structure would give guests a birds-eye view of the lake
from within.
'In the evening the Sun Moon Lake is covered with fog. When people
see our hotel from afar, it looks like the sail of a boat on the
lake,' he said on cable TV channel TVBS.
Tang said construction would cost 4 billion Taiwan dollars (121
million US dollars). A charge of at least 1,000 US dollars per person
per night, like Burj-al-Arab, would make it Tawian's most expensive.
Tang said he had formed an international consortium, Sun Moon
Hotel, to build and manage the hotel. Japan's Okura hotel chain,
which runs 27 hotels around the world including 17 inside Japan,
would be in charge of management.
Construction was scheduled to begin in October, and the hotel was
scheduled to open in late 2009.
The Sun Moon Lake and the nearby Ali Mountain are Taiwan's two
most famous scenic resorts.
Although there are already 156 hotels and motels around Sun Moon
Lake, the Nantou County Government invited bids in 2006 to build
another luxury hotel to attract tourists.
The Tuck More Biotechnology Co is a business group with 22
subsidiaries engaged in construction, property development as well as
import and export.
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