Rocco Forte Hotels has recently announced plans to double the size and to expand its presence in the Middle East region over the next five years. Sir Rocco Forte, who had founded Rocco Forte Hotels in 1997, with his sister Olga Polizzi, has made this expansion announcement. With landmark hotels across Europe such as Hotel…
Attractive investment opportunities attracting significant interest from hotel chains 13 hotels expected to open over the next three years RAK achieves second highest ADR and RevPAR, and third highest occupancy rates in GCC Ras Al Khaimah’s increasing hotel and resort portfolio is expected to grow by more than four thousand rooms over the…
At a time when most of the industries are undergoing traumatic times in the wake of slow global economy and diminishing oil prices, one industry that is looking forward to have good times in 2017 is Middle East’s hospitality sector. Industry experts are expecting opening up on new avenues in this sector, which will be…
A recovery in Egypt’s hotels and hospitality sector is expected to be scuttled in November as the country’s tourism sector reels under the aftermath of the Russian jetliner purportedly downed by ISIL terrorists in the Sinai desert killing 224 people on October 31. Latest data from STR shows that the country reported decreases across key…
Would Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor have tolerated customer service shaped only by a checklist? No. Neither do today’s guests of the Beverly Hills Hotel, a favorite of those two actresses. While leading the 1,000 employees at the Beverly Hills and the Hotel Bel-Air, I’ve seen how a customer’s experience can change based on something…
In the capital of luxury, it is the mid-market travel/hotel segment that’s driving growth. According to data from JLL, 50 percent of the 3,600 new hotel rooms to enter the Dubai market in the second half of 2015 are in the three-star or lower category and 69 percent have the four-star or lower rating. “This will…
2015 will be a record year for foreign investments into hotels, with global transactions up 55 percent y-o-y to $42 billion, and likely to surpass the $68bn volume forecast by real estate consultancy firm JLL earlier this year. “We’ve achieved 60 percent of this already in the first half of 2015 and, if momentum continues…
After a slight slump toward the beginning of the year, Russians tourists – regarded as big luxury spenders in the GCC and especially in Dubai – might be making a comeback. The Eastern European nationality represents the top in-house spenders at luxury hotels and resorts in Dubai, a new research found. SweetBeam, a company that…
Dubai welcomed 13.2 million international overnight visitors in 2014, according to statistics issued by DTCM, representing a growth of 8.2 per cent. Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing said the statistic differs from previously announced statistics on guests staying at Dubai’s hotel establishments, and is a measure of all international visitors travelling to Dubai…
Dubai International airport has kick started January 2015 welcoming a record 6.8 million passengers – up 7.7% from the same month last year. Hotels in the emirate meanwhile recorded more than 11.6 million guests in 2014 according to Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM). The January growth in air traffic follows Dubai’s achievement…
