February 16th, 2016 | 0 commentsMaster developer Nakheel has signed a joint venture agreement with RIU Hotels & Resorts, an international hotels group based in Spain, to open its first hotel at Dubai in 2019. Ali Rashid Lootah, chairman of Nakheel, travelled to Mallorca, Spain, to sign the agreement with Luis Riu, CEO of RIU Hotels, a Nakheel statement said. RIU bec...
February 12th, 2016 | 0 commentsDubai’s latest luxury branded hotel Palazzo Versace could fetch anywhere upwards US$300 million, according to its developer, who plans to sell it. The 215-room property designed on the lines of a 16th-century Italian palace complete with infinity pools and handblown Bohemian crystal chandelier, opened in December. A room this weekend at t...
February 9th, 2016 | 0 commentsRotana Hotel Management, the Dubai-based hospitality group, said on Monday it plans to further expand its presence in the UAE, with plans to open nine new hotels in the country over the next five years. The group plans four new properties in Abu Dhabi and five in Dubai, according to Guy Hutchinson, Rotana’s chief operating officer. They w...
February 3rd, 2016 | 0 commentsThe Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) has formed strategic partnerships with two of China’s biggest industry players in Shanghai last week, according to a statement on Tuesday. Issam Kazim, chief executive of the Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commercial Marketing, signed a memorandum of understanding (...
January 31st, 2016 | 0 commentsEzdan Holding Group plans to build a luxury tourist resort in Addis Ababa, a project which prominently figured in the recent talks company chairman Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani bin Abdullah al-Thani had with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe. The proposed iconic project is to be set up in an area of 150,000sq m in a key lo...
January 28th, 2016 | 0 commentsDubai made steady progress in achieving its vision of attracting 20 million visitors by 2020, recording a 7.5 per cent increase in visitor numbers in 2015, figures released by Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) have shown. Dubai attracted over 14.2 million overnight visitors in 2015, double the United Nat...
January 26th, 2016 | 0 commentsMeliá Hotels International, Spain's leading hotel group, is strengthening its foothold in the Middle East with plans to open a new hotel in Doha, Qatar. The hotel, which is set to open in 2017, will be operated under the Innside by Meliá brand, which becomes the third of the Spanish company's brands to achieve a presence in the destinatio...
January 21st, 2016 | 0 commentsQatar Tourism Authority (QTA) overseas offices heads and stakeholders in the tourism sector presented their marketing plans for 2016 at a meeting in Doha. At their first quarterly framework marketing summit for the year, QTA’s GCC, UK, France, Germany, Southeast Asia, and Italy offices presented “qualitative and quantitative reports refle...
January 14th, 2016 | 0 commentsBahrain Tourism Company (BTC) is currently evaluating the feasibility of merger with Gulf Hotels Group and Al Jazeera Tourism Company, according to a bourse filing. Bahrain Tourism Company said that its work is in progress in assessing the possibilities, after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) separately with Gulf Hotels Group (...
January 13th, 2016 | 0 commentsUS based Wyndham Hotel Group plans to open two more hotels in the Middle East, according to a company statement on Tuesday. The hotels, Ramada Hotel & Suites Amwaj Island and Ramada Manama City Centre, are both located in Bahrain and are set to open in March this year. It has already opened hotels in Saudi Arabia and Jordan — Ramada J...
