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Nakheel Hotels named Middle East's Leading Overseas Development Company at World Travel Awards
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, May 11 - 2009 at 11:57
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Nakheel Hotels this week collected the award for the Middle East's Leading Overseas Development Company at the World Travel Awards Middle East, held at The Monarch, Dubai.
Joe Sita, CEO Nakheel Hotels comments:
"It is a great honor to be recognized as a leading developer overseas. In just three short years, Nakheel Hotels has built up an impressive portfolio with developments across the globe. Our overseas developments have allowed us to further strengthen the Nakheel brand worldwide and we are very pleased with what we have achieved in such a short time."
Nakheel Hotels' global property portfolio comprises 25 hotels across 18 countries with a total of 12,260 hotel rooms. Nakheel Hotels is currently redeveloping the historic Hotel Washington into otelHotWashington DC's first W hotel, set to open this year; two more W projects in Thailand; and the historic Corinthia Metropole in London's West End. In the past six months Nakheel Hotels completed the expansion of the Djibouti Palace Kempinski, Djibouti's first five-star hotel; and recently opened the One & Only Cape Town, located at Cape Town's world famous harbor, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, owned by Dubai World.
World Travel Awards serve to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the global travel and tourism industry.
Joe Sita, CEO Nakheel Hotels, with Graham Cooke, Founder of the World Travel Awards.
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About Nakheel
Nakheel is one of the world's largest privately held real estate developers, and a key player in realising the vision of Dubai for the 21st century: creating a world class destination for living, business and tourism.
Nakheel is developing an iconic portfolio of innovative landmark projects in Dubai, and now in key markets around the globe, across a range of sectors - residential, commercial, hotels, retail, and leisure. Nakheel's projects are conservatively estimated to be worth US$80 billion. Upon completion Nakheel's waterfront projects will have added more than 1,000km of shoreline to Dubai's coastline.
Nakheel's Dubai portfolio currently includes Nakheel Harbour & Tower, Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali, Palm Deira, The World, Waterfront, The Universe, Jumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Village, Jumeirah Park, Jumeirah Heights, The Gardens, Discovery Gardens, Ibn Battuta Mall, Al Furjan, International City, and Dragon Mart.
Nakheel is a key entity within Dubai World. Dubai World is one of the world's largest holding companies and supervises a portfolio of businesses and projects for the Dubai government across five continents and more than 100 countries.
About Nakheel Hotels
Within three years Nakheel Hotels has accumulated an impressive global hotel property portfolio valued at over USD$4 billion which includes; the W Hotel Union Square and the Mandarin Oriental hotels in New York City; W Hotel Washington in Washington DC; the One & Only Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico; the Fontainebleau, Miami Beach; Corinthia Metropole, London; and significant equity stakes in Kerzner International Holdings Limited, operator of the Atlantis and One&Only brands; and International Hotel Investments plc, the owner and operator of the five-star Corinthia Hotel brand including hotels in Malta, St Petersburg, Lisbon, Tripoli, Budapest and Prague; and the franchise for easyHotels in the Middle East, Levant, North Africa
Additional investments of Nakheel Hotels include the development of W Bangkok and W Retreat and Residences Koh Samui, Thailand; investment in a fund that will be rolling out 30 Tune Hotels in South East Asia; a 33% stake in the London Metropole Building which will be converted to a Corinthia Hotel in partnership with IHI; and QE2 Enterprises including the QE2.
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