Meliá Hotels International announces the addition of two new properties in the GCC: ME Doha and Meliá Downtown Residences Dubai. These latest additions to their Middle East portfolio underline the importance of the region to the Company's long term growth strategy.
Prior to joining Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Deira Creek, Tullberg was general manager of the Radisson Blu Arlandia Hotel and Radisson Blu Skycity Hotel in Sweden.
Refaat, an Egyptian national, holds over 14 years of industry experience. He previously served in key managerial sales positions with international hotel chains including Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts and Raffles Hotels and Resorts.
Boasting a diploma in Tourism Management, Ladil assumes this new position with years of hospitality industry experience. Throughout his career he has served at some of the finest hospitality establishments in the UAE including Emirates Palace.
El Zyr holds a bachelor’s degree in International Hotel Management and his expertise lies in revenue management, front office, and food and beverage.
The Indian national has a bachelor’s degree in hospitality administration and management from the Sarosh Institute of Hotel Administration.
Having worked within the industry for two decades, Abraham’s luxury international hospitality career has taken her around the world to the UAE, Levant, Europe and Asia.
This first edition of our Middle East cities hotel forecast is published amidst some of the fastest growing tourism and hotel markets in the world. There are six cities in this new Middle East econometric forecast - Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Muscat and Riyadh. All are important gateway or capital cities and/or business and tourism destinations. Some are emerging as magnets for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE), Mega Events and leisure/ shopping travelers. Some, including Dubai and Doha are heading at breakneck speed into the future. Dubai will host the Expo in 2020 and Qatar the FIFA World Cup in 2022. Although outside the parameters of this forecast, planning is already heavily underway and will mean significant new supply preparations.
RIU Hotels & Resorts will add the city of Dubai to its portfolio through an agreement reached with Nakheel, one of the Middle East's major construction companies. Together they will create a new RIU Resort with 750 rooms at Deira Islands. The beach-front hotel will have a category of 4 stars and will offer the renowned RIU All Inclusive 24-hour service. It will be the first beach resort in the city of Dubai and will be one of the largest, by number of rooms.
Ras Al Khaimah, the UAE's northern Emirate providing new and exciting opportunities for tourism, investment and trade, today announces at Arabian Travel Market 2015, that it will be adding the 300 key Ras Al Khaimah Marriott Resort to its growing portfolio of global branded properties operating within its tourism sector.
JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group has released its 2015 Middle East Hotel Intelligence Reports today for the key markets of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Jeddah and Riyadh at the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC) in Dubai.
Rotana has announced plans to substantially grow its portfolio in 2015 with the addition of 11 new properties spanning the most exciting regional markets - the United Arab Emirates, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey, in addition to its first property in the African market. The announcement came on the sidelines of Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2015, the region's leading travel and tourism event which opened today at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
From the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC) in Dubai, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced it will double its portfolio in the Middle East, aggressively expanding its luxury, upper upscale and mid-market brands with plans to open 50 hotels by 2019. Reaffirming its growth commitment to the region, the company has signed five new projects under its Aloft and Element brands in Dubai (UAE), Doha (Qatar) and Muscat (Oman), adding up to a total of seven signed deals to date.
Fortune Hotels Group, one of the leading hotel brands in Middle East, has selected RateTiger LIVE, the Integrated Management Dashboard from eRevMax to benefit from real-time channel management powered with business analytics. Four properties of the group are using the web based platform for updating rate across channels and accessing high quality rate data and insights from single dashboard to improve business efficiency.
Within months of the successful opening of its first hotel in Dubai on Jumeirah Beach Road, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts announces the development of a second, complementary location in the heart of the city's International Finance Centre.
Following the success of the Dusit Residence Dubai Marina, Al Masar Holding LLC and Dusit International strengthen their 8-year relationship with an additional two properties in the United Arab Emirates joining the Dusit family.
Four Seasons announces the appointment of veteran hotelier Carlo Stragiotto as General Manager of the upcoming Four Seasons Hotel Dubai at DIFC. Most recently Hotel Manager at Four Seasons Hotel Milano, the tri-lingual Italian counts Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Paris, Istanbul, Las Vegas and at the Red Sea among the assignments during his 22-year history with Four Seasons.
Cristal Group has signed a memorandum of understanding for Boutique 7 Hotel that will be rebranded to Cristal Media Hotel once the management contract is formalised. Once the agreement is done, it will mark Cristal Group's debut in Dubai taking its total portfolio of hotels in operation and under development to 16 properties across Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Tilal Liwa Hotel has appointed Ramesh Kumar Singh as director of sales at the 111-key property.
New general manager Paul Dunphy joins The Sheraton Dubai, Mall of the Emirates Hotel, and in his first month opens the new Link@Sheraton Café and newly refurbished Vantage bar.