The budget sector still attracts scepticism

Dubai. In the Middle East local hotel groups come up and grow. None of them is afraid of the oversupply in the market, each group is looking for its personal profile. The following interviews with the group's executives show the differences between Coral International, Habtoor Hospitality, Jumeirah and Rotana.

Dubai. "We are on track," confirms Arif Mubarak, CEO of Bawadi in Dubai. "The things that needed to be achieved in a year’s time, we have achieved. That includes sales, the number of partnerships, infrastructure, design, branding and communications." On a stretch of ten kilometres, the 29,000 rooms are to be designed as Egyptian pyramids, Hollywood, the Houses of Parliament in London and the moon. The investment is estimated at 100 billion Dh. The hotel is to be built in two phases. CEO Arif Mubarak with details about the present state of the master plan.