When and where

HOST hotel for the Fiji Tourism Con vention from June 14-17 is the Hyatt Regency on the Coral Coast, a deluxe resort hotel with a distinctive Fijian in fluence that is reflected in its architecture, decor and staff.

The 249-room resort is situated on a 28-acre complex mid-way between Nadi and Suva and has excellent views of the ocean and mountains. It offers 120 lei sure activities, many found in the ex tensive and high-quality ‘Club Olympus’ sports and fitness centre and in the wa ter, including scuba diving, windsurf ing, canoeing and coral viewing.

The Hyatt Regency has many years’

experience catering for conventions,

meetings, training courses and other gatherings. The Tourism Convention will be held in Hugo’s Restaurant, while smaller gatherings are usually housed in the Explorer’s Lounge.

The 11-year-old resort has just had a facelift that included constructing a

pool grill deck for casual dining, up

grading the hotel lobby and adding

four shops, installing a bar on the new ly tiled Horizon Terrace and relocating the handifcraft ‘bure’ to make it the focus of cultural activities.

The resort has also just created a new Regency Club Lounge, with in terior decoration by locals Len Barrack and Leibling Marlow. The Regency Club, catering for business executives and VIPs who want complete relaxation and privacy, is a 23-room “hotel within a hotel” that includes personalised ser vices and extra amenities.

The resort is part of the large, fami ly-owned, United States based Hyatt group. Fiji’s Hyatt Regency is part of the Hyatt International Corporation and its subsidiaries, which operates 30 hotels and 19 resorts and have another 10 under construction. Hyatt Hotels Corporation operates another 103 hotels resorts in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.□