20. Antoine Sayegh, President, Gloria Hotels & Resorts and Mourouj Gloria Hotels Group Company
Gloria’s president is On a mission to prove that dry hotels can be as profitable as those with bars and nightclubs.
With a stated ambition to open a Gloria branded hotel in every GCC capital and all major Saudi cities, Sayegh is pioneering his value-for-money hotel concept without bars or nightclubs.
Catering to the needs of families and their children and business travellers alike but without the provision of alcoholic beverages, he claims to be proving to doubters that a dry model can be as successful, if not more, than others.
Staff training and professional service standards focus on providing clients with clean and comfortable surroundings and good food with attractions and facilities for children.
Despite operating a range of property types and sizes — from boutique hotels and the small five-star resorts to some of the largest all-suites hotel in the Middle East — Sayegh says that all his hotels have something in common — allowing the company’s 1,700 associates to share their ideas and empowering them to make decisions to improve the company’s guest services and colleague working conditions.
By the numbers
Number of years in role: 6
Number of years with company: 11
Number of Middle East operating hotels: 10
Number of Middle East pipeline hotels: 5
Number of Qatar hotels: 1
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