LAGOI Bay Bintan is shaping up as a leisure and MICE destination, with several new resorts and attractions coming online over the next one year.
Bintan Resorts International’s director for marketing, Asad Shiraz, said the myriad activities and accommodation options due to open soon in Lagoi Bay would draw more high-end FIT travellers as well as corporate meetings and incentive groups.
Beginning operations this June are lifestyle mall Lagoi Beach Village, an amphibious ultra-light aircraft, a canopy walkway in the forest surrounding Lake Lagoi and teambuilding activities involving ropeways. By end-2013, an off-road rally car circuit will round up the slate of new attractions.
On the accommodations front, The Sanchaya will debut 19 luxury villas and nine suites in September 2013, adding to Lagoi Bay’s five-resort, 1,400-key room inventory.
Early next year, Alila Villas Bintan and Swiss-Belhotel Lagoi Bay, Bintan will further plump up the inventory with over 250 new rooms. Both properties are within walking distance to The Sanchaya, Lake Lagoi and Lagoi Beach Village.
Bintan welcomed 476,000 arrivals last year, according to Asad. Of the total figure, 30 per cent were Singaporeans, 20 per cent Indonesians and the rest from all over the world.
With the new developments, Asad hopes Bintan will attract more Indonesian, Chinese and Indian tourists both for leisure as well as meetings and incentives.
