Batam Well furnished Apartment

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Swiss-Belhotel Batam Hotel is a modern high rise four star hotel in Batam Island, Indonesia managed by Swiss-Belhotel International.

Located close to the major commercial and business area of the Batam Island, Swiss-Belhotel Batam Hotel is a premier choice for both the business travellers and holiday-makers. Approximately 30 minutes by ferry from Singapore and 20 minutes drive from Hang Nadim Airport.

Offering contemporary service and cordial hospitality, this charming Batam Hotel is designed to meet all the needs of the guests to enjoy the privileges required for an unforgettable accommodation in Batam. Swiss-Belhotel Batam Hotel features 60 luxurious guestrooms and apartments that are well furnished with every possible modern amenity to make your stay as comfortable as possible.

Combining modern and ethnic interior design for your dining in Batam, the onsite Swiss-Cafe serves a la carte menu for you to feast on in a pleasant ambience. You can sip your favourite drink including tropical cocktails and ice cold drinks with your friends in the relaxed atmosphere of the in-house Island Pool bar after spending a busy and tiring day.

Swiss-Belhotel Batam Hotel offers 2 meeting rooms that are equipped with state of the art audio visual facilities and can accommodate up to 30 persons for your meetings in Batam, seminars and any kind of social events. Other facilities in this Batam hotel include swimming pool, parking, laundry, disabled facilities, reception and room service.

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Swiss-Inn Batam, Three Star Budget Hotel in Batam

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Managed by Swiss-Belhotel International, Swiss-Inn Batam is a three star international budget hotel in Batam ideally caters for travellers looking for good comfort and value for money yet inexpensive accommodation in Batam.

Swiss Inn Batam is a high rise building that is enclosed by shops, offices, shopping malls and hawker centers. Conveniently located, it is approximately 10 minutes from the city centre, 30 minutes drive from Hang Nadim Airport, and only minutes from Ferry Terminals: Sekupang, Batu Ampar and Batam Center Point.

The Swiss-Inn Batam boasts 128 guest rooms fully equipped with modern facilities for a comfortable and leisure stay. Each room is equipped with individually controlled air-conditioning unit, international TV channels, IDD telephone lines, internet access, mini-bar, and hot and cold shower, 24-hour in-room dining is also available.

Dining in Batam is relatively inexpensive and delightful. Swiss-Café serves a la carte menu and a variety of dishes to pamper your taste buds. Make sure to try out Indonesian and International buffet. To unwind the day, Serunai Lobby Lounge and Bar is a modern and stylish lounge, where you can socialize and meet your friends. You can relax with a scintillating glass of your favorite cocktail. Live entertainment programs are held every night to entertain the guests staying at the Swiss Inn Batam.

For small meetings in Batam, Swiss Inn Batam offers well outfitted meeting room that can accommodate up to 80 people in theatre style with various secretarial services like broadband internet access, audio visual facilities, facsimile, e-mail, photocopying, etc.

Whether you are a business or leisure traveller, Swiss-Inn Batam is well equipped for your comfort, with its unrivalled affordability and attentive service.
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Hotel Security Implications of the July 2009 Jakarta Terrorist Attack
By Dr David Beirman
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In the 21st century all links in the tourism chain are required to tighten and re-evaluate preparedness and response to evolving security threats. The 9/11 attack of September 2001 changed the nature of the hijacking threat to airlines from abduction of an aircraft and its passengers to using an aircraft as weapon of mass destruction, IATA (international Air Transport Association) and Airport Federations worldwide united to undertake a global review of counter-terrorism security measures for airlines and airports. The conclusions arising from this review in early 2002 were implemented globally. Although airports and airlines recognise the necessity of heightened security, few terrorist attacks have been attempted on airlines and airports since 2001. Terrorist organisations have generally treated them as hard targets.
After 9/11 terrorist threats against tourists and tourism infrastructure shifted to other targets including tour groups, coaches, railways, restaurants and hotels. Hoteliers are well aware they are vulnerable to security threats and many major chains and individual hoteliers took significant steps to upgrade hotel security. However, there is little global consistency in security measures actually practiced. The November 2008 attack on the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai India and more recent terrorist attacks on major Western hotels in Pakistan in 2009 have focussed hotel security concerns on preventing and minimising threats from external sources to hotels, staff and guests.
The July 2009 attack against the JW Marriott Hotel and the Ritz Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia represents a new but predicable threat to hotels. Unlike the majority of recent hotel attacks which resulted from bombs placed outside hotel entrances or by the invasions of armed terrorists or suicide bomber, July’s Jakarta attacks were carried out by terrorists who had secured entry as paying guests of the hotels. Indonesian hoteliers, especially in Jakarta and Bali, enhanced the security of and restricted public access to hotels since terrorist attacks in Jakarta and Bali between 2002-5. In this case the bombs which killed 9 people and wounded fifty were assembled in a hotel room and the perpetrators had unhindered access to the hotel’s dining and function areas because they were registered guests,
In hindsight it may be easy to observe that a registered guest with a large backpack strapped over his chest and a wheelie bag should have aroused suspicion from hotel security staff. Until now, it has not been the general practice anywhere in the world to challenge or conduct spot searches on in-house hotel guests.
The Jakarta hotel bombings are a warning to hoteliers in Indonesia and worldwide that terrorists tactics are continually changing and hotels are still considered relatively soft targets. The attraction of international hotels and their guests is that for a terrorist a global brand hotel is striking at a “symbol of the West” and the more diverse the international roll call of victims, the greater and more globally widespread is the publicity terrorists groups receive. For terrorists in particular, publicity for their cause or group is the primary motive for conducting attacks.
The Jakarta suicide bombings raise a number of security issues for all hotels. A key question asked is how does a hotel minimise the threat of an in-house attack without invading the privacy and attacking the dignity of an in-house guest/ customer. What actually constitutes the boundary between hospitality and security? Hoteliers will be under increased pressure by police and government security authorities to screen the luggage of arriving individual and group guests with a view to identifying any potential lethal material in a manner similar to airports. Protection for dining areas and conference facilities will require upgraded security and surveillance. The International Hotels and Restaurants Association may need to follow the example of IATA and set out a series of global best practice guidelines for hotel security in conjunction with recognised security authorities. So far hotel chains and individual hoteliers set their own security standards which can vary enormously. Terrorists, in common with criminals, seek soft targets and the generally porous nature of hotel security worldwide ensures hotels remain a preferred target.
The establishment of globally applicable security standards for hotels is an important first step to improving global hotel security. Clearly, these measures will encounter a great deal of resistance as security is expensive, time consuming and is resented by many clients and hotel managers and owners. However, if hotels now fail to act, the precedent set by the attack in Jakarta is certain to be imitated elsewhere.
The question hoteliers after July 2009 need to ask is; what is the greater threat to their business, causing guests some minor inconvenience or by omission purposely endangering the lives of their guests.