Executives from both hotels will visit Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei with local experts based in Randall Lui’s RM Asia offices in those cities from March 22-30.
The Malaysian-based Federal International hotel group is sending its two flagship hotels – the Federal in Kuala Lumpur and the Grace in Sydney - on a week-long sales mission through key markets in Asia this week.
Executives from both hotels will visit Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei with local experts based in Randall Lui’s RM Asia offices in those cities from March 22-30.
The group will be led by Ooi Lee Ping, director of Federal International, owner of the renowned Federal Kuala Lumpur, the first international class hotel built in Malaysia.
She will be joined by the director of sales and marketing at the Grace, Craig Gosling, and Serene Tam (director of business development at the Federal International).
Lui, Federal’s marketing operator in Asia and the Pacific, said that during the tour the group and local RMA representatives will offer travel agents in all three cities a range of special rates and incentives at the two hotels.
The Federal opened for business just three days before Independence Day on August 31, 1957. It was founded by Low Yat (father of Low Yow Chuan) and designed by the architect of the original nine-story building Lee Yoon Thim. The taller wing housing the revolving restaurant was built in the early 1960s.
The Grace Hotel is a historic building located in Sydney on York Street. Designed by Morrow & Gordon and built by Kell & Rigby during the late 1920s, it was opened in 1930 by Grace Brothers, the Australian department store magnates, as their headquarters.