http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001101/od/ice_dc.html
> Wednesday November 1 8:31 AM ET
> New Ice Hotel to Open Doors
>
> QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Canadian entrepreneurs announced plans on
> Tuesday for North America's first Ice Hotel and said 1,000
> tourists had already signed up to spend a night in a chilly
> building made of ice and snow.
>
> ``We've already received more than 1,000 reservation requests.
> These numbers exceed our expectations and we predict a big
> success for our first year of operation,'' Ice Hotel
> communications director Francis Leonard told Reuters.
>
> The hotel, built of 4,500 tons of snow and 250 tons of ice, is
> scheduled to open next January just outside Quebec City. It will
> stay open for the three months, before it melts next spring.
>
> The historic city is already well-known for its Winter Carnival
> in early February.
>
> The Ice Hotel's facilities will include a bar, a cinema and art
> galleries, with exhibits made of ice, as well as executive suites
> complete with an ice bed. The cost -- C$165 ($109) a night --
> will include a hot breakfast.
>
> The concept of an ice hotel is being imported from Sweden, which
> constructed what its owners say was the world's first ice hotel
> in Jukkasjarvi, some seven hours' drive from Stockholm.
>
> The Canadian structure will cost C$350,000 to build, including
> C$125,000 from Quebec's government.
>
> ``This bold new project will add a major activity during the
> winter period, a time of the year that we need to develop more,''
> Quebec Tourism Minister Maxime Arseneau told a news conference.
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