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Sub Category - Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants |
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First modern hotel building |
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Business World - Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants |
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Hotel Malaysia was the first modern building to be designed as a hotel. Others at that time had started life as something else. The owner, Goodwood Group wanted a hotel with an Asian feel and it incorpoated ethnic features such as teak carvings and batik murals. In 1973, the Goodwood Group sold the hotel to the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company which renamed it The Marco Polo Singapore. |
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