DESTINATION REPORT / SAUDI ARABIA
The hotel will feature three restaurants, two lounges and 1,700 square metres of space for events and meetings, as well as a ballroom and spa. The final addition to the Hyatt portfolio, currently
in the pipeline, is the 400-room Grand Hyatt Jeddah, which is due to open early 2016 in the city centre, with 5,700 square metres of meeting and events space, as well as a spa, fitness centre and three restaurants. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is also
working hard to place its stamp on the destination. The company has signed a long-term management agree- ment with the Al Hokair Group to open Four Points by Sheraton Mall of Arabia in Jeddah, Four Points by Sheraton Dhahran and Aloft Riyadh. The addition of these three new properties increases Starwood’s portfolio to 13 hotels in Saudi Arabia. Scheduled to open in December 2013, the Four
IHG is the biggest hotelier in the world
by rooms and its new 502-room Crowne Plaza Madinah in Saudi Arabia opened in 2012 offer- ing some of the best meeting facilities in the city. By the end of 2013, IHG plans to open the 326-room Crowne Plaza Riyadh and the 283-room Holiday Inn Riyadh Meydan. It has also agreed to build two hotels in the King Abdullah Financial District of Riyadh, includ- ing the first Hotel Indigo in the Middle East. While Makkah and Al Madinah remain
the focus for Islamic pilgrims to the king- dom, the focal points for the meetings, incen- tives, conference and exhibitions market are the capital Riyadh, Dammam in the east and Jeddah in the west. For both business and leisure travellers,
one of the most stunning new hotels is The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh, an Arabian-designed masterpiece set in 52-acres of beautifully land- scaped gardens sculpted using 600-year-old olive trees from Lebanon and set among water fountains. There is more than 5,800 square metres of conference space, incorporating two ballrooms, two theatres, a huge variety of meeting rooms, a delegate restaurant and a full business centre. Hyatt Hotels has its seventh Hyatt-branded
hotel under development in Saudi Arabia and its second in Riyadh. The Hyatt Regency Riyadh, due to open in the third quarter of 2013, will offer 257 guestrooms, including 37 suites with a lobby lounge, two restaurants, a Regency Club lounge, more than 550 square metres of event space and a number of small meeting rooms. The new Park Hyatt Riyadh is expected
to open in 2015, featuring 275 rooms along- side three restaurants, a lounge, ballroom and conference space and a spa. The Park Hyatt Jeddah – Marina, Club and Spa, which opened in 2009, will be complemented by the opening of the 240-room Hyatt Regency Jeddah in the second half of 2015, located in the city centre close to Tahliyah Square.
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Points by Sheraton Mall of Arabia is in a prime loca- tion in Jeddah, less than three miles from the King Abdulaziz International Airport and just five miles from the old city. It will offer 300 spacious rooms, a business centre and more than 900 square metres of state-of-the-art conference space. Marriott International, one of the biggest hotel
groups in the world, is in the process of developing nine new properties in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Jubail. Its brands include The Ritz-Carlton Resi- dences, Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Marriott Executive Apartments and Courtyard by Marriott. Another exciting update for meeting planners is
5,800
square metres of conference space at The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh
that Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has been signed to manage a new 287-room luxury hotel and convention centre just north of Riyadh, scheduled to open in 2013. The Fairmont Riyadh, Business Gate, will be part of a new mixed-use development project comprising the 287-room hotel, a 4,000-square-metre convention cen- tre and commercial real-estate space that will house multinational corporations.
To find out more about the meetings industry in the kingdom, read the annual Meet Saudi Arabia guide at:
www.meetinsaudiarabia.com
Above Left: Jeddah
Above Right: Hyatt Regency Riyadh
Right: The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh
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