THE ROBINSONS Hotels and Resorts is opening its first Go Hotels branch in the city, Go Hotels Lanang-Davao, which officials believe will lure corporate travellers as well as the so-called free and independent tourists (FIT).
“We are very confident, we are optimistic about the market,” Adrian O. Ong, Go Hotels marketing manager, during a press conference at Habi at Kape in Abreeza, adding that the company is eyeing about 60% of those who will patronize the hotel are corporate travellers, 30% FIT and 10% are those who book their hotels through travel agencies.
Expected to open on the third quarter of the year, the hotel is the company’s first joint venture project, said Ong, adding that the Gokongwei-led company has partnered with the Udenna Development Corp., the company behind Phoenix Petroleum.
Located about 30 minutes from the airport, the hotel has 183 rooms in six floors and that is second floor function rooms that can accommodate 250 people.