Tune Hotel to check in at klia2 end of next year

TUNE Hotels Group plans to close its existing budget hotel in the present low-cost carrier terminal (LCCT) in Sepang, once it opens a new Tune Hotel at  KLIA2 in Sepang, December next year.

Commercial director David Lusteaux said the new hotel at KLIA2 will be connected with the terminal KLIA2.
"We will be opening a brand new hotel (at KLIA2) with 400 rooms and the existing Sepang's Tune Hotel will be in operation until the new hotel opens its doors," he told reporters at the hotel group's fifth anniversary celebrations here today.

Lusteaux said besides KLIA2, the group also planned to open another 20 Tune Hotels next year in India, Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia.
He also said in line with its fifth anniversary, the company had embarked on a new design and brand, to attract the younger crowd.

"Currently, half of the four million guests come from younger group. We want to grow this figure to at least between 60 per cent and 70 per cent from the current 50 per cent," he added.

The company also aims to double its guests next year, from the current four million, by doubling the number of rooms in its hotels.

Lusteaux said its first landmark hotel located in downtown Kuala Lumpur was the second to be refreshed and given a "make-over", after its Ipoh branch.

The budget hotel chain now has 25 hotels operating in five countries, namely Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and the UK.

Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, which is co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin Meranun, who are the group chief executive and deputy group chief executive respectively for budget airline, AirAsia Bhd. Bernama
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