DESTINATION REPORT / KUALA LUMPUR Below: Mayangsari Grand Ballroom, JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur
MAKING ROOM International hotel brands line up in Kuala Lumpur like a five-star ‘Who’s Who?’, making group accom- modation an easy option for organisers. The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur, is in the Golden
Triangle district, 10 minutes from the Petronas twin towers, featuring 365 guest rooms and 25 meeting rooms, totalling 10,000 square metres. Sister hotel, the 29-storey, 561-room JW Marriott
offers 3,059 square metres of total meeting space, including the 909 square metre Mayangsari Grand Ball- room, which has a maximum seating capacity of 1,000. “Meetings play a crucial part of our business mix
as JW Marriott and The Ritz-Carlton have a com- bined number of 45 meeting rooms,” explains Anna Olsson, director of sales & marketing, Kuala Lumpur, for owning company YTL Hotels. According to Olsson, the hotels are also very
popular with leisure travellers from the Middle East. “This is one of the reasons we are focusing on the Middle East as a new source market for meetings, especially from the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. We have a close relationship with many of the local DMCs in Kuala Lumpur who are handling the Middle East market. We also attend tradeshows like Arabian Travel Market and roadshows that cater to these markets,” she explains.
Left: Thirty8 at the Grand Hyatt, Kuala Lumpur
45
number of meeting rooms at the
The combined
JW Marriott and The Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur
Also in the heart of The Golden Triangle,
Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur offers ten function rooms, including seven with natu- ral daylight, and a pillarless ballroom that can accommodate 2,000 people. The 643-room five-star Mandarin Oriental is
perfect for large groups – the Grand Ballroom is large enough to fit a Boeing 747 and can accommo- date up to 2,400 guests. It is also right in the middle of the city with great views of the Petronas Towers. Opened in 2012, the 412-room Grand Hyatt
Kuala Lumpur is also targeting the meetings indus- try. The property offers 3,300 metres squared of event space, including six function rooms. According to Ann Lam, public relations man-
ager, Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, the meetings sec- tor in Kuala Lumpur is growing positively, with 20 percent of business attributed to this market.
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