Bintan Lagoon resort to shut for good

[abbby]

Bintan lagoon resort is closing its doors and 500 staff will be laid off.

They had been incurring losses for 2 years.

I remembered they used to be a popular destination for golfers, and when I visited few years back they had bus loads of Chinese tourists..

[PNGMK]

Meh. I remember going there in the mid 90's. Nothing special.

[abbby]

May be good news since the place is rather run down, new operator could come in and do an overhaul to the place. Yup, nothing special and my experience when I was there was the resort's restaurants were all full house and they decline us having our meals cos of the Chinese tourists. I had to wait an hour for them to finish up before I could be seated.

[Max Headroom]

It's been a zombie for some time. Companies that can't make it, go under, leaving a niche for green shoots to poke through and ultimately flourish.

That is to say, in the real world at least.