Taiwan Land Development Corp (TLDC, 台灣土地開發) yesterday launched presales for its hotel project in Hualien, which is limited to members.
The project is next to mixed-use shopping mall New Paradiso (新天堂樂園) near Hualien Bay (洄瀾灣).
“The hotel with 603 units targets retired people who enjoy a healthy lifestyle and want to earn rental income through the sharing economy,” TLDC chairman Chiu Fu-sheng (邱復生) told a news conference in Taipei.
Under the company’s marketing scheme, prospective buyers first need to pay a membership fee of NT$150,000 (US$5,081) to qualify to purchase hotel rooms, with prices starting at NT$4.29 million per unit, Chiu said.
Owners would be guaranteed an annual return of 3 percent for 10 years as French budget hotel brand Ibis operates the facility, he said.
TLDC and Ibis owner Accor SA in June last year signed a collaboration agreement.
The new hotel might start operations by the end of next year, Chiu said.
Owners can stay at the facility for up to 30 days for free every year, while their family and friends would be offered a 10 percent discount on room rates on weekends and 20 percent on weekdays, he said.
“The arrangements aim to help buyers enjoy a healthy retirement while generating rental income,” Chiu said.
The hotel complex would feature retail space, restaurants, beauty shops, pet stores and health facilities from the ground to the fourth floors, while guestrooms would occupy the fifth to ninth floors.
The completion of the Suhua Highway Improvement Project early this year has significantly boosted the number of visitors to Hualien and would lend support to demand for hotel rooms, TLDC said.
SEMICONDUCTORS: The German laser and plasma generator company will expand its local services as its specialized offerings support Taiwan’s semiconductor industries Trumpf SE + Co KG, a global leader in supplying laser technology and plasma generators used in chip production, is expanding its investments in Taiwan in an effort to deeply integrate into the global semiconductor supply chain in the pursuit of growth. The company, headquartered in Ditzingen, Germany, has invested significantly in a newly inaugurated regional technical center for plasma generators in Taoyuan, its latest expansion in Taiwan after being engaged in various industries for more than 25 years. The center, the first of its kind Trumpf built outside Germany, aims to serve customers from Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia and South Korea,
Gasoline and diesel prices at domestic fuel stations are to fall NT$0.2 per liter this week, down for a second consecutive week, CPC Corp, Taiwan (台灣中油) and Formosa Petrochemical Corp (台塑石化) announced yesterday. Effective today, gasoline prices at CPC and Formosa stations are to drop to NT$26.4, NT$27.9 and NT$29.9 per liter for 92, 95 and 98-octane unleaded gasoline respectively, the companies said in separate statements. The price of premium diesel is to fall to NT$24.8 per liter at CPC stations and NT$24.6 at Formosa pumps, they said. The price adjustments came even as international crude oil prices rose last week, as traders
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), which supplies advanced chips to Nvidia Corp and Apple Inc, yesterday reported NT$1.046 trillion (US$33.1 billion) in revenue for last quarter, driven by constantly strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips, falling in the upper end of its forecast. Based on TSMC’s financial guidance, revenue would expand about 22 percent sequentially to the range from US$32.2 billion to US$33.4 billion during the final quarter of 2024, it told investors in October last year. Last year in total, revenue jumped 31.61 percent to NT$3.81 trillion, compared with NT$2.89 trillion generated in the year before, according to
PRECEDENTED TIMES: In news that surely does not shock, AI and tech exports drove a banner for exports last year as Taiwan’s economic growth experienced a flood tide Taiwan’s exports delivered a blockbuster finish to last year with last month’s shipments rising at the second-highest pace on record as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and advanced computing remained strong, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. Exports surged 43.4 percent from a year earlier to US$62.48 billion last month, extending growth to 26 consecutive months. Imports climbed 14.9 percent to US$43.04 billion, the second-highest monthly level historically, resulting in a trade surplus of US$19.43 billion — more than double that of the year before. Department of Statistics Director-General Beatrice Tsai (蔡美娜) described the performance as “surprisingly outstanding,” forecasting export growth
RSS