Formosa Regent Taipei (台北晶華酒店) yesterday unveiled a new wedding package, which includes an eight-course meal by a group of Michelin-starred chefs, as part of its goal to raise its average cost per guest by 10 percent this year.
The hotel, operated by Formosa International Hotels Corp (FIHC, 晶華國際酒店集團), has priced the package at NT$5,880 (US$195) per person excluding service charge, with a minimum of 250 guests required.
“More customers have expressed an interest in having cuisine by the hotel’s Michelin-starred chefs for their wedding banquets, which encouraged us to come up with the new wedding package,” FIHC public relations director Ellen Chang (張筠) told a press conference.
Wedding banquets accounted for nearly 60 percent of the hotel’s overall banquet sales last year, Chang said, adding that revenue from the banquet sector accounted for 30 percent to 40 percent of the hotel’s overall food and beverage sales.
The Regent Taipei is the first hotel in the nation to have established a wedding planning and consulting department, as more clients request customized services, she said.
The hotel expects the new wedding package will not only boost its average cost per guest at a wedding banquet to more than the NT$2,100 recorded last year, but also help make it more competitive against the Mandarin Oriental Taipei, which launched operations last month.
Mandarin Oriental Taipei, managed by the Hong Kong-based Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, has set the price of its top-level wedding package at NT$58,800 per 10-person table, a record for the local hotel industry.
About 200 people have already expressed an interest in having their wedding banquet at the hotel by the end of this year, Mandarin Oriental said.
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