- Index : Tourism and Hospitality
Tourism and Hospitality
- A 3.5km long indoor ski slope is to be built on Jebel Hafeet in Al Ain. The highest mountain in the UAE, much of the ski slope will be built on stilts and encased in a tunnel. It will include a ski jump and the floor will be moveable to provide different ski routes. It will include at least four hotel resorts, with one part way up and one at the top. There will be a golf course with some teeing off points on the mountain side and white water rafting. Plans include making it environmentally friendly, with a solar panel plant providing power and producing the snow. The project is still in the planning stage, with construction due to begin by October, said Tamouh Investments.
- United Arab Emirates: 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
- InterContinental Hotels Group has appointed Hannes Bos as Director of Revenue Management for the Middle East and Africa. Bos will be responsible for developing pricing structures and revenue management strategies across all five of IHG's hotel brands in the Middle East & Africa.
- Middle East: 10 hours, 37 minutes ago
- Sharjah-based tourist destination, Al Qasba, has recorded half yearly visitor numbers of 250,000, up 186% on the same period in 2007. Officials believe that the increase in visitors is due to the centre's recent facelift.
- United Arab Emirates: 15 hours, 19 minutes ago
- IFA Hotels & Resorts, a Kuwait-based hotelier partly-owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has launched a $200m real-estate project in Thailand with Raimon Land Pcl, a Thai property developer, reported Bloomberg. The Kuwaiti company will own 49% of the 'Lofts South Shore' project.
- Kuwait: Wednesday, July 23 - 2008 at 11:08
- Oman is marketing itself as an upmarket tourist destination with a focus on culture and adventure, in contrast to the more commercial offerings of its immediate neighbours, reported the UK's Financial Times. The sultanate is building museums in some of its 500 ancient forts and plans to turn a mountain village in an undeveloped region into hotel apartments as part of a project that will highlight the traditions of rural Arabian culture. Tourism currently accounts for little more than 1% of Oman's gross domestic product. The government is targeting 3% by 2015.
- Oman: Wednesday, July 23 - 2008 at 07:40
- Kuwait-based Action Hotels and Accor Hospitality have completed the development of their first partnered hotel outside the GCC with the official opening of Ibis Glen Waverley in Melbourne, Australia. The development is the first of a number of hotel projects that Action Hotels is currently planning for the Australian market including other projects for Melbourne and the construction of a 314-room hotel in downtown Brisbane.
- Kuwait: Tuesday, July 22 - 2008 at 08:56
- The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority has reported an overall occupancy in Sharjah's hotels to 83% higher during the first six months of 2008 compared to the corresponding period in 2007. Hotels and hotel apartments in Sharjah have also increased to 102 (37 hotels and 65 hotel apartments), compared to the figure of 74 (24 hotels and 50 hotel apartments) during the same period in 2007.
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, July 21 - 2008 at 13:32
- Emaar Hospitality Group's The Address Hotels & Resorts is also launching the hotel in Egypt - The Address, Uptown Cairo. The hotel will be part of Uptown Cairo, the master-planned community developed by Emaar Misr for Development. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2011.
- Egypt: Monday, July 21 - 2008 at 09:22
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