New Hotels Inaugurated in Samjiyon Tourist Resort of DPRK

New Hotels Inaugurated in Samjiyon Tourist

Resort of DPRK

Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) — Thanks to the direct initiative and
energetic leadership of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee,
modern hotels have been newly built and inaugurated in Samjiyon City, whose
attractive appearance undergoes a better transformation as a typical
mountainous city in the northern part of the DPRK and a unique all-season
mountainous tourist resort.
The hotels, built to exhibit special architectural beauty and provide peculiar
service in good harmony with the magnificence of nature in the Mt Paektu
area, along with the symbolic names peculiar to the Samjiyon area such as
Sobaeksu, Ikkal, Ponnamu and Chongbong, are the proud creations of our
era when a new phase has been opened up in building public service centres
in all aspects of contents and forms.
Inauguration ceremonies of five hotels newly built in the Samjiyon Tourist
Resort took place on December 20 and 21.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the inauguration ceremony
of the Ikkal and Milyong hotels on Dec. 20.
When he arrived, all the participants raised stormy cheers as a token of their
great reverence for him who is bringing earlier the rosy future of Korean-style
socialism with his untiring thought and devotion out of his fervent desire to
make our people the most dignified who have nothing to envy in the world.
Present at the ceremonies were officials of ministries, national agencies and
armed forces organs, officials in Samjiyon City and employees of the hotels.
Speeches were made at the ceremonies.
Referring to the painstaking efforts made by Kim Jong Un to bring about a
great transformation in the Paektu area, where beautiful scenes, indescribable
with the mysterious sceneries of nature only, are being witnessed, the
speakers said that the hotels are the meaningful creations heralding the
emergence of a large tourist zone covering Mt Paektu, Mt Pukphothae and Mt
Namphothae.

Expressing belief that Samjiyon City will soon be renowned as an attractive
mountainous tourist resort and leisure ground for the people, they declared
the completion of the hotels.
Ceremonial services were given to commemorate the inauguration of the
hotels.
Kim Jong Un, together with the participants, went round the hotels.
Going round bedrooms of hotels, cosy leisure spaces and commercial and
public catering facilities, he appreciated that all elements are at a high level in
terms of practicality, diversity and formative art to preserve their own
attractiveness.
He said that he was pleased to see such wonderful public service facilities
built in Samjiyon City.
Referring to the importance of the hotels' position and role in creating the
culture of tourism in the country and promoting tourism, he said that service
facilities are important in developing tourism, but the main thing is the quality
of service. He called for directing primary efforts to improving the service
capacity and professional qualifications of service workers in hotels.
To this end, it arises as an essential requirement to further expand and
strengthen the national system of training professional service workers, he
said, stressing the need to proactively develop new service industries capable
of fully satisfying the customers' different demands.
He expressed his unshakable will to turn Samjiyon City better into an
innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the
country, noting that to build the entities of modern civilization in tourist
attractions on a large scale, along with the on-going new history of radical
development and transformation in different parts of the capital and the
regions, is just a clear proof of the ever-growing ideal of our people and our
state's potential for development.
Expressing expectation and belief that the officials and employees of the
hotels would achieve successes in their work, he wished the hotels prosperity.
Inauguration ceremonies of the Sobaeksu Hotel, Chongbong Hotel and the
Ponnamu Hotel took place on December 21.

The participants in the ceremonies went round smart rooms satisfying various
tastes of guests, different service facilities providing abundant cultural living
environments, indoor and outdoor spas arousing sweet feelings and fresh
vitality in all seasons and other parts of the hotels.
They deeply realized the eye-opening reality of the country which is
undergoing transformation with each passing year thanks to the noble
intention and determined efforts of Kim Jong Un, who is absolutely
subordinating everything to the sake of the people, and the new vibrant
civilization coming closer to the people's life.
The completion of modern hotels demonstrating the dynamic changes in
Samjiyon City vividly shows the high spirit of our state, which is advancing
steadily toward a high stage of comprehensive prosperity and development
under the great leadership of Kim Jong Un, and the bright prospect of the
Mt Paektu area which will shine more brilliantly as a world-renowned scenic
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