Rotana to open 9 new hotels in the UAE over the next five years

Four of the new hotels will be located in Abu Dhabi, with the other five in Dubai, said the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Guy Hutchinson, during the hotel group’s 2016 GCC Roadshow. Five of the new properties will be under the 'Rotana Hotels & Resorts' brand, three under the 'Arjaan hotel apartment by Rotana' brand, and one under Rotana’s lifestyle affordable hotel brand, 'Centro by Rotana'. The new hotels will take the total number of Rotana properties in the UAE to 44 by 2020. Rotana currently manages more than 100 hotels in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe. Rotana also announced the opening of five new hotels in Saudi Arabia in 2016, three new hotels in Qatar and one new hotel in Kuwait by the end of 2018, in addition to the 9 properties announced for the UAE market. “The GCC remains the largest source market for Rotana properties in the UAE and elsewhere, and with intra-regional travel on the rise and accounting for a larger share of visitor spend than ever before, now is the perfect time for Rotana to strengthen our relationships with our travel trade partners and share updates on our expansion plans for the region,” Hutchinson said.