About the owners
A.A.Al Moosa Enterprises LLC
Founded in 1970, A.A.Al Moosa Enterprises LLC owns seven hotels in the GCC, including Hilton Dubai Creek and Crowne Plaza Muscat, and three hotel apartments under the Golden Sands brand. In 2011, the company opened Ramada Hotel Apartments in Sharjah in January and will open Hilton Jumeirah Beach Residence and Ramada Jumeirah Beach Residence, each 45-storey towers, in the second half of 2011.

Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC)
ADNEC was established in 2005 and owns three hotels — Aloft Abu Dhabi, Hyatt Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi, opening this year, and Aloft ExCeL in London, also due to open in 2011.
Its hotel stock is designed to effectively support ADNEC’s core business of operating world-class events venues across the world.

Action Hotels
Action Hotels was established in 2008 as a subsidiary of Kuwait-based Action Group Holdings. Under the leadership of H.E Sheikh Mubarak A.M. Al Sabah, the objective of Action Hotels is to become the leading hotel-owning company specialising in mid-market hotels in the Middle East.

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Action Hotels currently owns five hotels in Melbourne, Australia; Salmiya, Kuwait; Sharq, Kuwait; Muscat, Oman and Amman, Jordan. It aims to have a total portfolio of 16 properties by 2014.

Atlas Hospitality
Atlas Hospitality was established in 2005 as a division of Dubai-based Atlas Group of Companies. Its focus is on niche hospitality-asset development and management in the Middle East, South East Asia and Indian Ocean, as well as undertaking specific consulting for select hospitality projects, restaurant operations and back-of-the-house design projects.

Atlas Hospitality’s own asset portfolio includes the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City and the upcoming Regent Emirates Pearl, Abu Dhabi, on track for a 2012 opening, and two restaurant concepts, Certo and Pascal Tepper French Bakery, as well as a 40-hectare area in the Seychelles to develop.

Atlas Hospitality is focused on an expansion strategy — it envisages five hotels and 20 restaurants by 2013, and is opening three restaurants in the next six months alone.

Seven Tides — Hospitality
Seven Tides is a Dubai-based, privately-owned, internationally-oriented holding company established in 2004. It currently owns four hotels in Dubai, two of which are yet to open, and one in London.

The four properties in Dubai are all operated by Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts.

Over the next few years, the company aims to open its final two properties in Dubai and launch the Dukes Collection internationally. It is also looking at opportunities in hotel apartments in various locations.