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Luxury boutique hotel, The Roundtree
Opening a new business in the middle of the pandemic was a huge risk for anyone
—let alone for a first-time entrepreneur—and if you throw in the fact that this new business is in the hospitality industry, well, it almost sounds like an impossible feat. But none of those obstacles stopped Sylvia Wong, founder of The Roundtree, from following her dreams of opening the luxury boutique hotel. “When I set out on this journey, I had no idea that we would be dealing with a pandemic. The...
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