turn it into the first hotel in Southeast Asia furnishing in an
European contemporary artistic style.
According
to the Second Secretary of the Spanish Embassy in Hanoi , C. Espada,
this is a unique gift that Spain presents to Hanoi on the occasion
of its 1,000 th birthday, representing the close friendship between
the two countries.
Fifteen artists have been
invited from Spain to do the decoration of the hotel’s 21 rooms,
each with a different style.
The project, which
was an initiative of the Spanish Embassy in Hanoi also opens up a
new direction of bilateral cooperation, he added.
According to Espada, once completed in June 2011, the renovated hotel,
to be renamed Thang Long-Espana Hotel, will be a symbol of the Spanish
contemporary culture in Hanoi that helps Vietnamese people know Spain
better and vice versa.
Le Hong Hai, Director of
the Hanoi Tourism Corporation’s Thang Long Opera Hotel, which runs the
Sen Thang Long Hotel, said this is an opportunity for Sen Thang Long to
improve its infrastructure, personnel training and business capacity,
thus promoting the trademarks for itself and the corporation.
Costs of the renovation at around 5 billion VND are mainly sourced from the Spanish Embassy’s cultural fund.
The first phase of the project is expected to be completed in
December this year. Spanish visitors will receive a 20-percent discount
of room rates for five years since the hotel’s re-opening./.
