40 Potential Investors Interested in Development of Lake Toba

id Lake Toba, beach of Balige

40 Potential Investors Interested in Development of Lake Toba

Lake Toba (Hisar Sitanggang/ANTARA LAMPUNG)

Parapat, N Sumatra (ANTARA Lampung)- The Executive Agency of Lake Toba Authority (BPODT) has revealed that 40 potential investors particularly from China and Singapore, are interested in development of Lake Toba tourism area.
       
They were interested in building hotels and resorts, and infrastructure, as well as operating tourist boats, Faisal, finance and general affairs director of BPODT, said here, Tuesday.
        
The potential investors also also include local businessmen, he said, adding that the potential investors had visited Lake Toba tourism area recently.
       
Chinese investors are serious in building resorts, a Medan-Pematangsiantar-Parapat-route railway and a cable car, he added.
       
The agency has offered three locations for investment in development of integrated hotels and resorts, notably in Sibisa covering 602 hectares, Humbang Hasundutan measuring one thousand hectares and expected to become a flower park, and in North Tapanuli covering 247 hectares.
        
He mentioned that Hotel Properties Limited (HPL), a hotel chain from Singapore, is interested in constructing a five-star hotel in Toba Somasir.
        
The government is also offering a development of a cable car connecting Parapat and Samosir, or from Parapat to Balige and Silangit.
        
"The best view of Lake Toba is seen from above," he said.
        
Scoot, Singapore's airways, plans to open Singapore-Silangit route, while Firefly airways from Malaysia is interested in serving Penang-Silangi route, while Airasia Malaysia will open Kuala Lumpur-Silangit.
            
Patra Jasa, a subsidiary of Indonesia's oil and gas company PT Pertamina, has planned to operate tourist boats.   

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