The Grand Hyatt Taipei hotel is to offer new dog-friendly rooms from Sept. 26, tapping the flourishing pet business, the Chinese-language United Daily News said yesterday.
Some of the rooms have already been booked at the hotel, which is the first in Taiwan to offer such services, the newspaper said.
The rooms, at the rear of the sixth floor, will provide bowls, mattresses and towels especially for dogs, the report said.
Hotels that cater to guests with pets have been around for many years in other countries, the report said, citing Grand Hyatt Taipei public relations manager Kuo Tzu-ching (郭子菁).
For example, Grand Hyatt Seattle started providing such services three years ago, Kuo said.
According to statistics from the Council of Agriculture, there were more than 2.3 million domesticated dogs and cats in Taiwan in 2013, an increase of more than 20 percent from two years earlier.
There are just over 23 million people in the nation.
Last year, there were 1,353 veterinarian hospitals nationwide.
Euromonitor market intelligence firm said the markets for pet food and supplies in the nation will reach NT$7.9 billion (US$240.6 million) and NT$9.3 billion respectively this year, an increase from NT$6.4 billion and NT$7.8 billion respectively in 2009.
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