Budget hotel operator Nida Rooms to expand in South-East Asia

Meeting demand: Goh (right) and Song Eu Jin at the briefing. Nida Rooms aims to have 1,200 rooms in the country by May.

KUALA LUMPUR: Budget hotel operator Nida Rooms aims to expand its operations to 5,000 hotels regionally by May, and 10,000 by the year end.

Currently, the company, which began operations seven months ago, has about 3,000 hotels through various collaborations in South-East Asia, of which 700 are in Malaysia.

“We aim to have 1,200 hotels in the country by May,” its chief commercial officer Song Eu Jin told reporters at a media briefing. For now, the operator has a capacity of 450,000 room nights.

Last week, the company signed an agreement with SelecTV, a company providing prepaid TV services in 5-star hotels, to provide quality entertainment and free TV at Nida Rooms.