Rotana Hotels and Resorts is to open 11 new properties over the next six months.
The hospitality company will expand its portfolio across six different markets including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Africa and entering Turkey for the first time.
The new hotels will add 2,765 rooms to Rotana’s 13,569 room count across its global properties.
The 11 properties set to open under Rotana management in 2015 are as follows:
- Burgu Arjaan by Rotana, Istanbul, Turkey
- Tango Arjaan by Rotana, Istanbul, Turkey
- Dalga Residences by Rotana, Istanbul, Turkey
- City Centre Rotana, Doha, Qatar
- Centro Doha, Doha, Qatar
- Downtown Rotana, Manama, Bahrain
- Capital Centre Arjaan by Rotana, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Centro Shaheen, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Centro Waha, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Rosh Rayhaan by Rotana, Saudi Arabia
- Kinshasa Arjaan by Rotana, Democratic Republic of Congo
Omer Kaddouri, president & CEO of Rotana, said: “Rotana has a very robust development pipeline for 2015. By extending the Rotana brand into new markets while also reinforcing our market leadership in the Middle East, we have come closer to realising our ambitious vision of operating 100 hotels by 2020.”
He added: “Faster economic growth and the globalisation of travel have meant that middle income groups are contributing more and more towards tourist inflows into regional markets, and as a result, budget hotels have emerged as one of the fastest growing sub-sectors within the hotel industry.”
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