Ipoh Mali Visit Perak Year Receives Timely Boost

IPOH MALI – VISIT PERAK YEAR RECEIVES TIMELY BOOST
121-room Tune Hotel Ipoh set to open 30 March

Global value hotel brand Tune Hotels has announced 30 March 2012 as the opening date of its 11th and latest Malaysian property, Tune Hotel Ipoh in the state of Perak.

To celebrate, Tune Hotels is running a pre-opening promo where rooms at Tune Hotel Ipoh are on sale from only RM8 per night. Booking starts today (10 January 2012) until 20 January 2012 for stay period of 30 March – 30 November 2012. The promotion available is exclusively online at www.tunehotels.com.

Group CEO of Tune Hotels, Mark Lankester said: “Through this special promotion, we would like to invite everyone to come and join us in celebrating Visit Perak Year 2012 and experience Ipoh and Perak as a whole.”

“We look forward to participating in the Visit Perak Year 2012, by helping provide world-class accommodation at affordable rates to both foreign and domestic tourists to Perak, in particular Ipoh. We have always said that within Malaysia we want to provide the most complete coverage for travellers and businesses and the establishment of Tune Hotel Ipoh is a further step in that direction.”

Tune Hotel Ipoh will have 121 rooms including 80 doubles, 40 twins and one wheelchair-friendly room. As an added convenience especially for families with under aged children, there will be interconnecting rooms, a new feature introduced by Tune Hotels at the Ipoh property. The hotel will also house commercial retail outlets including an AirAsia Travel & Service Centre that will cater to the residents of Ipoh and the surrounding areas.

Tune Hotels currently operates 10 hotels in Malaysia, two in Bali, Indonesia, two in London, England and one in Thailand. Tune Hotel Ipoh will be the chain’s 11th hotel in Malaysia with the others being Kuala Lumpur, Penang, KLIA-LCCT Airport, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Johor Bahru, Kota Damansara, Bintulu, Kota Bharu and Kulim. In Bali, Tune Hotels are located at Kuta and Legian while in London it is at Westminster and Liverpool Street. The latest hotel that opened on 22 December 2011 was Tune Hotel Hat Yai, Thailand.

Adding to the list soon will be Tune Hotel Pattaya in Thailand, scheduled for opening on 17 February 2012 and three locations in the Philippines – Angeles City (10 Feb 2012), Cebu City (24 Feb 2012) and Ermita, Manila (9 March 2012). Rooms at these hotels are now available for booking at www.tunehotels.com.

Tune Hotels has successfully pioneered a branded value hotel brand with the concept of pay-as-you-use that has become hugely popular amongst travelers from across the world. Under the concept, guests only pay for room rates with the option of adding on other amenities like towels & toiletries, air-conditioning, in-room wifi and satellite TV service at selected hotels.

Tune Hotels has recently set a new record for itself by registering three million guests over a period of four years since the opening of its first hotel in downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2007. From the one millionth guest mark it achieved in March 2010 to two millionth by mid-2011, Tune Hotels’ guest arrivals have been exponential as the network aggressively expands across Southeast Asia and the UK.

Calling on guests to stay connected with Tune Hotels via the social media networks Facebook and Twitter, Mark pointed out that about 30 new Tune Hotels will be opening globally in the next 12 months. “More Tune Hotels are scheduled for opening in Asean, the UK, India and Australia, that will give our guests even more options for travel destinations. With these new hotels, our number of guests will grow even faster and we expect to reach the five millionth mark by mid-2012. We encourage guests to stay tuned for Tune Hotels’ latest openings and promotions via Facebook and Twitter.”

Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group CEO and Deputy Group CEO respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier AirAsia.

For real-time updates and promotion alerts, guests can stay connected with Tune Hotels via Facebook at www.facebook.com/tunehotels and on Twitter via www.twitter.com/tunehotels.

For booking and further information, visit www.tunehotels.com.