Rezidor Announces the Park Inn Graz
JUNE 24, 2008. The Rezidor Hotel Group (STO:REZT) announces the Park Inn Graz - the 194-room property is scheduled to welcome the first guests in Q3 2010. With this signing Rezidor continues to develop its fastest growing, innovative and colorful brand Park Inn in Austria: The group already has a hotel in Vienna and develops two further properties in Linz and Klosterneuburg which both will open in 2009. The management company of Park Inn Graz is RIMC Austria/Vienna (a subsidiary of RIMC International) - a long term partner of Rezidor.
Graz is the second largest city in Austria and the capital of the province of Styria (Steiermark), the green heart of Austria. It is located in the southeast of the country with good highway connections to Vienna in the northeast (200 km), and Slovenia/Croatia/Italy in the south (Ljubljana, 200 km, Zagreb 180 km). The international airport in Graz is the third largest in Austria in terms of passengers after Vienna and Salzburg. Graz itself has been the European Capital of Culture 2003 and features a large variety of landmarks. Moreover it's a centre for the automobile, paper and high-tech industries.
The Park Inn Graz will be located close to the historical city centre (UNESCO Heritage 2003) within close proximity of the central railway station and the city's main access roads. Besides 194 rooms including 7 junior suites and 27 long stay-apartments services will comprise a buffet restaurant, an `a la carte restaurant, a lobby bar, meeting & leisure facilities including fitness room, sauna and steam room.
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