Team Out of Town Blog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – Quest Hotel, Tagaytay offers guests a new way to experience Tagaytay and rediscover its unique charm with its Live, Love, Explore package as part of Chroma Hospitality’s Live Love Local campaign.
Guests of all ages can enjoy a one-of-a-kind Tagaytay experience and explore Tagaytay’s freshest produce with an exclusive guided tour at Gourmet Farms; welcome treats from Rowena’s Pasalubong and an overnight stay for two at a cozy and well-appointed room with a view.
The 164-room, three-star hotel is the newest accommodation in Tagaytay City, where all types of travelers can enjoy the cool breeze and its convenient location right across the Fora Mall at the rotunda.
Rowena’s Pasalubong Tagaytay
Quest Hotels and Resorts is managed by Chroma Hospitality Inc. and owned by Filinvest Hospitality Corporation and Archipelago Hotels. It also runs hotels in Cebu and Clark and soon in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
Quest Hotel Tagaytay
The group, which also runs the upscale Crimson brand in Alabang and Mactan, is known for combining the value of premium budget hotels with inspiring home-grown designs, creative hospitality concepts, and state-of-the-art technology for stylish and comfortable travel.
For inquiries and bookings, log on to questhotelsandresorts.com/Tagaytay, email tagaytayrsvn1@questhotelsandresorts.com, or message 0919-0618210.
Team Out of Town Blog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – Get a headstart on your summer preparations by scoring a new smartphone with powerful camera features to capture #EveryEmotionInPortrait at a steal price!
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Global smart device brand OPPO announces a special promo with mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc (Smart), offering the latest Reno6 Z 5G through Smart Prepaid for Php17,999, slashed off from its original price of Php19,999.
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OPPO Reno6 Z Flash Charge
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OPPO Reno6 Z Product Photo
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OPPO Reno 6 Z 5G Smart Kit
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DTI Fair Trade Permit No. FTEB-136497 Series of 2022
Team Out of Town Blog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – DoubleDragon Corporation’s (“DoubleDragon”) offshore subsidiary, Hotel 101 Worldwide Private Limited “(Hotel 101 Worldwide)”, completed the change of its principal activities on Singapore’s Regulatory Authority. The amendment in Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) is covered by Receipt # ACRA220211134043 dated February 11, 2022.
The change and update of its primary and secondary activities now allow it to conduct acquisition, investment, and development of real estate properties and ventures, as well as to conduct real estate sales, marketing, operations, and management of the Group’s projects outside the Philippines. A step forward towards DoubleDragon’s aspiration to export the Hotel 101 brand and concept globally.
Hotel 101 Manila
The expansion may be directly by Hotel 101 Worldwide or through partnerships and joint ventures with other property developers in other countries. Given this development and the latest easing of restrictions of the Covid19 pandemic, DoubleDragon expects to acquire its first property for development in Asia by the second quarter of 2022, and launch by the second half of 2022. DoubleDragon has shortlisted sites where Hotel 101 is expected to be patronized by local and foreign tourists as well as Filipinos who visit that country for business or leisure. The first Hotel 101 project outside the Philippines is also expected to give Filipino investors a chance to make their first offshore real estate investment with affordable payment terms for their hybrid condotel Hotel 101 investment.
The concept patent of Hotel 101’s pioneering condotel concept has already been filed. The Hotel 101 trademark and domains have been secured in various countries of the world. The Hotel 101 concept is a hybrid condotel model where all the units or “Happy Rooms” as they are called are identical, thus, allowing all unit owners to have an equal share in the revenues of the Hotel 101 property. The Hotel 101 App for both Apple iOS and Android will be launching soon.
The unique Hotel 101 asset light concept allows DoubleDragon to generate revenue and income twice, first from the pre-selling of the Happy Rooms, then second after the project is constructed it generates long term recurring revenue from hotel operations.
Hotel 101-Manila in full year 2021 achieved an average occupancy rate of 96.03%. “The development and completion of these new Hotel 101 projects will be perfectly timed with the full recovery and anticipated rebound in the tourism industry. We believe in a couple of years, all this pent up demand for tourism will cause an unseen surge in demand for hotel rooms across the globe,” said DoubleDragon Chief Investment Officer Hannah Yulo-Luccini.
“We have observed that the US has Holiday Inn, Europe has Novotel, China has Jinjiang Inn, Malaysia has Shangri-La, Thailand has Dusit, Japan has Nikko, Singapore has Raffles, but the Philippines has none. We have also observed that in other countries, many have a strong mindset of gearing their businesses for export. Pursuing business ventures, brands and concepts that are geared to be exported to the 195 countries globally is truly admirable,” said DoubleDragon Chairman Edgar “Iniap” Sia II.
Hotel 101 Manila Happy Room
Message from the Philippine Department of Tourism Secretary Hon. Berna Romulo-Puyat;
“The Department of Tourism lauds the efforts of DoubleDragon Corporation to establish its Hotel101 concept as the very first homegrown global hotel chain. With two icons of Philippine entrepreneurship, namely Edgar “Injap” Sia, founder of Mang Insal, and Tony Tan Caktiong, the founder of Jollibee, at the helm, Hotel101 has the potential to manifest and promote the unique and exceptional Filipino brand of service as the chain expands all over the world” “By doing so, Hotel101 could very well serve as an international goodwill ambassador of the hospitality industry for the Philippines, the same way Jollibee outlets that have made their mark for food in various corners of the globe,” added Philippine Department of Tourism Secretary Hon. Berna Romulo-Puyat.
“Filipinos are admired all over the world for being highly hospitable people. In fact, many hotels around
the world are ably handled by Filipino talents.
With that in mind, DoubleDragon believes it’s about time that a Filipino company pursues that aspiration of creating a homegrown Filipino hotel brand that is recognized globally and will eventually bring honor and pride to Filipinos.
We are grateful to the DoubleDragon team who have, over the years, been able to put together, polish, and test the unique and pioneering Hotel 101 hybrid condotel concept and most especially put to life an exportable concept for the world. We are also glad to have been able to file the Hotel 101 concept patent early on,” said DoubleDragon Chairman Edgar “Injap” Sia II.
DoubleDragon is currently in 4 diversified sectors (1) Provincial Retail leasing, with its chain of CityMalls, (2) Office leasing with DD Meridian Park complex in Bay Area, Pasay City, the 42-storey Jollibee Tower in Ortigas CBD, and The Skysuites Corporate Tower in Quezon City, (3) Hotels with the chain of Hotel 101 and Jinjiang Inn Philippines as well as the currently under construction Ascott in DD Meridian Park, and (4) Industrial Warehouse leasing with the chain of CentralHub warehouse complexes, a joint venture with Jollibee Foods Corporation that the DoubleDragon plans to transform into a REIT by the second half of 2022. DoubleDragon’s pipeline of leasable space also includes Robinsons DoubleDragon Square office towers which is a joint venture between Robinsons Land and DoubleDragon located in Libis, Quezon City.
HOTEL 101 GROUP
DoubleDragon currently has 6,165 hotel rooms in its nationwide portfolio that are operational, under construction, and about to launch hotel projects across its brands Hotel 101, Jinjiang Inn Philippines, and Ascott-DD Meridian Park.
“The aspiration to expand Hotel 101 outside the Philippines has been there since before but was further delayed by the Covid 19 pandemic. Now that the borders have opened up and the Covid19 pandemic looks bound to end, we believe the elements are already there to finally put forward this aspiration of DoubleDragon to create a global Filipino hotel brand that every Filipino can be proud of, just like the pride that we feel when we see a Jollibee store in other parts of the world,” added Mr. Sia.
“Our whole team will continue to be relentless in our pursuit to make all the business units and brands under DoubleDragon and MerryMart a well-loved household brand serving well all its stakeholders and for both to become a major contributor to our economy in the years to come,” said Mr. Sia in closing.
Team Out of Town Blog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – This Valentine’s Day, PLDT Home releases a new musical anthology that celebrates the power of digital connections in enabling people to find communities, friends, and love despite social distance.
Markus Paterson
Titled #SpeedthatMovesYou, the two-episode mini-series dives deep into different kinds of love starring the country’s hottest artists Gigi de Lana, Markus Paterson, and Kaori Oinuma, which drops on February 11 on the PLDT Home YouTube channel.
The first episode, TheDuet, tells the story of Markus (Markus Paterson), a popular singer-songwriter struggling under the pressure to create successful music records. Finding solace in writing music for himself and posting it anonymously, he meets Arlisa (Gigi de Lana), a young talented singer who also posts anonymously because of fear of being in the spotlight online. Together they make music and fall in love but their secret identities threaten this newfound connection.
Kaori OinumaGigi de Lana
The second episode of the musical mini-series talks about The Confession, highlighting the importance of being true to oneself. In this episode, Abbie (Kaori Oinuma) is a college student, professional gamer, and streamer who has amassed a considerable following online. Her mother is an overseas Filipino worker whose dream for Abbie is to find a stable job as an accountant. Eager to gain her mother’s approval, Abbie juggles both her studies and her passion for eSports–a side of her that she hides from her mother. With a major eSports competition coming up, her classes piling up, and the emotional strain of hiding her dream eSports career from her mother, the pressure takes a toll on Abbie and will eventually lead her to choose between her own dream and a person she loves.
Watch and discover how the fastest connections can help form lasting love and meaningful relationships in this musical series on PLDT Home’s YouTube page. You can also listen to the new original song “Speed of Love” performed by Gigi de Lana, Markus Paterson and Kaori Oinuma and written by the award-winning songwriter Jonathan Manalo on Spotify.
