Taking charity to new heights in the 6th annual Vertical Marathon at Jumeirah Emirates Towers

Notes and media contacts

Jumeirah Group:
Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts are regarded as among the most luxurious and innovative in the world and have won numerous international travel and tourism awards. The Dubai-based luxury international hotel management group encompasses the world renowned Burj Al Arab, the world's most luxurious hotel and recognised as the symbol of Dubai, the multi-award winning Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Madinat Jumeirah and Jumeirah Bab Al Shams Desert Resort & Spa in Dubai, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower and Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel in London and the Jumeirah Essex House in New York.

The Group's activities are, however, not restricted to hotel and resort management. The Jumeirah Group portfolio also includes Jumeirah Living, the Group's luxury brand of serviced residences offering effortless living in luxurious surroundings; global spa brand Talise; The Taste Department, the company's dedicated restaurant division; Wild Wadi water park; The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, the region's only fully accredited third-level academic institution delivering specialised degree programmes in hospitality management; and Jumeirah Retail, with its 15 stores and dedicated luxury online store www.jumeirahcollection.com. Sirius, Jumeirah's Recognition and Rewards programme, offers members the ability to earn Sirius Points every time they stay, dine or shop with Jumeirah.

Building on this success, Jumeirah Group became a member of Dubai Holding in 2004, a collection of leading Dubai based businesses and projects, initiating a new phase of growth and development for the group.

Jumeirah has extensive expansion plans to grow its portfolio of luxury hotels and resorts into key gateway or letterhead cities and aspirational resort destinations worldwide. Currently, the Group has several luxury five-star properties under development in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Maldives, Bali, Thailand, China, Argentina, Spain, England, Scotland and the US Virgin Islands. In 2009, the Group is eagerly anticipating the grand opening of Jumeirah HanTang Xintiandi in Shanghai, Jumeirah's first hotel in the Asia Pacific region.

For further information please contact:

Jumeirah Group Corporate Communications
Samantha Dancy - Public Relations Manager
PO Box 214159 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel: +971-4-364-7959
Fax: +971-4-301-6655

Médecins Sans Frontières:

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent humanitarian medical organisation. We provide life-saving emergency medical care, including epidemic control, war surgery, nutritional assistance and primary healthcare in more than 60 countries worldwide, on the basis of need alone, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, creed or political affiliation.
MSF rehabilitates hospitals and clinics, runs nutrition and sanitation programmes, trains national medical personnel, and provides mental health care. Through longer term programmes, MSF teams treat diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, but also neglected diseases, such as sleeping sickness and malaria.
Annually, some 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses and support staff travel to crisis areas to work alongside 25,000 locally employed staff. MSF volunteers also have a duty to bear witness and sometimes to speak out on behalf of the patients and communities they are working with.
To maintain its independence from political interference, MSF relies on donations from private individuals for the majority of its income.
The objective of the MSF representation in the UAE is to spread awareness about the plight of the populations it assists, interact with local communities and participate with other concerned parties and philanthropists in promoting humanitarian principles and raising funds for this purpose.

Médecins Sans Frontières was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

For further information please contact:
Medecins Sans Frontieres Communications Department Contact:

Hanane Cherkaoui-Communications Officer
P.O. Box 47226 Abu Dhabi, UAE Regional Office
Tel: + 00 971 (0)2 6317645,
Fax: + 00 971 (0)2 6215059,