Houston Community News >> Taipei, Taiwan Sail-Shaped Hotel
5/15/2007 -- Taiwan Business
Hotel Taiwan tycoon to build copy-cat Dubai sail-shaped hotel epa photo to be
available Taipei.
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Taiwan business tycoon said Thursday he will build Taiwan's most-luxurious
hotel, modeled 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 Taiwan'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
(Contributed by ehotelier.com)