Extreme Hotels has just signed another awesome deal with the 'daddy cools' of the Middle East: Plantation Group Dubai , to develop, roll out and operate 19 new Extreme Hotels across the region over the next seven years. The teams from both camps have been in negotiations over the past few months and signed the deal last week. The planned roll outs for this hotel chain are three in Dubai, three in Oman and three in Saudi Arabia by 2009 with further individual hotels planned for the UAE, Qatar, Oman Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon through the term. Extreme Hotels, part of the Extreme Groups family of branded businesses, is one of the world's most revolutionary lifestyle based hotel brands and focuses on offering something new, different and exciting in the hotel sector. More ....
Naseba, a leading business information company, introduces the first annual Islamic Hotel Expansion Congress on December 3rd-4th, 2007 at the Hilton Jumeirah hotel in Dubai.
The Islamic hospitality market is currently growing at a fast pace in the Middle East as well as in many popular international destinations favoured by Middle Eastern travellers, such as the UK and Germany. More ....
Hotel Gladiatori, Italy With plenty of Latin charm but none of the unrestrained kitsch of so many Italian hotels, the Gladiatori is a smart, independent hotel in the centre of Rome. So central is it, in fact, you can see the Colosseum from many of its bedrooms and from the roof garden. More ....
The Shelbourne Dublin, a Renaissance Hotel was awarded ‘Best Overall Hotel’ at the Hospitality Ireland Awards Ceremony. The Hospitality Ireland awards ceremony was held in the Four Seasons Hotel last week and the winners were chosen by an expert panel of judges More ....
The Peninsula: The Qatar Tourism Authority’s (QTA) strategic plan is to have 50,000 hotel rooms in the country by 2016, said Ahmed Abdullah Al Nuaimi, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of QTA.
“We have conducted studies and an extensive report has been prepared on Qatar's infrastructure needs, future tourism activities and QTA’s role in backing Doha's bid for the 2016 Olympics. Our dream will come true. We have proved that in respect of the Asian Games,” Al Nuaimi said. More ....
The end of October saw the completion of the 155th floor on Burj Dubai. The 156th floor was then finished on a building that, at 585.7m (1,922ft) and still growing, is already the world’s tallest tower block.By the time that Emaar, the largest property company in Dubai, completes the Burj (the Tower), it will rise to 164 floors, to be capped by a spire that will add a few more precious metres. More ....
Sexy Digs in San Diego
The Keating Hotel. The exterior of this 116-year-old San Diego building looks nothing like its sexy, modern interior. Guests are greeted with a sports car-red lobby that leads to 35 rooms designed by Pininfarina, the Italian company that makes Ferraris and Maseratis More ....
SAUDI real estate development firm Ishraqah has finalised a deal with Grow Projects to sell The Onyx Hotel, one of the prime projects of its Dh1.8 billion ($490 million) The Onyx development on Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road. The Onyx's integrated environment links three main towers: a 25-storey, a 16-storey office tower, and a 14-storey business hotel with 200 rooms and 10 suites. The deal has boosted the sales prospects of the remaining properties at the corporate destination. More ....
A new study offers a true view of the regional hotel and retail markets: 30 new hotels in Dubai and a quadrupling of room numbers in Doha, among other key findings More ....
THE fourth Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC) is set to beat all previous attendance records with 1,000+ delegates expected next year, according to conference organiser, Jonathan Worsley. More ....
The opening of at least 30 hotels in Dubai has been delayed this year.These properties are expected to open in 2008 and will cause a drop in occupancy levels, The consultancy firm Colliers International said in a report More ....
Motaz Othman - Jordan Under the patronage of HRH Prince Naif Bin AbdulAziz, Minister of Interior, Chairman of Saudi Supreme Commission of Tourism in Saudi Arabia. The 1st Islamic Tourism Forum will be held in Jeddah City at Le Meridian Hotel between 30 October – 2 November 2007 with participant from Ministers of Tourism and representative from 52 Islamic countries More ....
The Millennium Burooj Suites Hotel Apartments opening October 2007 in Port Saeed, Dubai, holds the double honour of being the first all-suite hotel worldwide for Millennium Hotels & Resorts as well as the company’s first sharia-compliant residential property More ....
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