Information surfaced on social media about alleged impending demolition of the Lotte City Palace Hotel. A Facebook story claimed on Monday that all the staff of the hotel had allegedly been laid off.
This information is false, Gulnoza Kasimova an official representative of the Tashkent Tashkent mayor’s office wrote on her personal Telegram channel, citing the Main Department of Tourism and Cultural Heritage of Tashkent and the hotel administration.
The Tashkent mayor’s office also commented on a Facebook post about the demolition, stating: The former Tashkent Hotel will not be demolished.
The Lotte City Hotel Tashkent Palace was designed by architects Mitkhat Bulatov and Leonid Karash. It was intended to accommodate high-ranking guests and various delegations. It became the first hotel in the capital with a swimming pool.
The hotel opened in October 1958, when Tashkent hosted the Asian and African Writers Conference, and the conference participants became its first guests.
In 2003, the Tashkent Hotel was handed to Le Meridien for management, an international hotel chain of the French airline Air France. Following reconstruction in 2013, it was handed to the renowned South Korean Lotte hotel chain.
