Dubai expects over 100,000 rooms by 2020
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A recent hospitality report published for The Hotel Show Dubai 2015 revealed that Dubai is leading Middle East and Africa for new hotel developments with 96 total projects and 36,523 rooms in the pipeline.
Dubai has taken the lead for hotel openings for the past three years, but activity is now at an all-time high with new rooms to be added to existing 65,000. This will bring the total to over 100,000 by 2020.
Christine Davidson, event director of The Hotel Show Dubai said: “As per the report, a record total of 694 hotel projects are currently underway in the Middle East and Africa. This will add 188,817 rooms to the market over the coming years, the majority before 2020.”
The busiest year for Dubai hotels is reported to be 2017, with 30 projects opening. Dubai’s first fully solar-powered hotel – Hotel Indigo Dubai The Sustainable City, and its first Mandarin Oriental and Bulgari luxury hotels are to open in 2017.
Other hot spots are Morocco with 46 active projects, Riyadh with 43 and Doha with 38, following closely behind Dubai. Of almost 700 total hotel projects in the pipeline for the Middle East and Africa, 528 are listed as being in the pre-planning, planning and construction stages.
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