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Sao Tome and Principe: Portuguese group opens five-star hotel in Sao Tome [ 2008-06-18 ]


Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe, 18 June - Portuguese group Pestana is due Saturday to open a new five-star hotel with 115 rooms, built from scratch in Sao Tome and Principe at an investment of over US$26 million, a group official said Tuesday.

Speaking to Macauhub, the commercial director of the group in Sao Tome and Principe, Ricardo Rodrigues, said that the Sao Tome head of state, Fradique de Menezes would inaugurate the new hotel unit.

The new complex, which has been built next to one of the beaches on the Sao Tome coastal road, includes a casino, a night club, two swimming pools overlooking the sea, a health club, two conference rooms and a covered car park.

The construction of the new unit, which began in January 2006, is part of a tourism plan by the Portuguese group, known as, “Pestana São Tomé Ocean Resort Hotel which will also include a real estate complex comprising 54 houses that are due to be completed by the end of 2008.

As well as the new resort, the Pestana group also ownd a four-star hotel in Sao Tome, which has 65 rooms, as well as management of another complex on the Rolas islet, in an overall investment of over US$57 million. (macauhub)