Laurie Clayden, CEO and designer at Castello Luxury Baths said: “The Hotel Show has been an amazing and successful event for Castello with over 50 prospective leads and projects for hotels, safari lodges and international resorts with potential orders worth over US $10 million. We will definitely be back next year with a new range of product designs.”

This year the number of countries in the Show’s International Village expanded with the introduction of Croatia, Finland, Indonesia and Switzerland, taking the number of countries represented up to 48. It was also the first time a Japanese association had taken part.

Takahide Ohta, head of operations at the Japan Leading Edge Foundation (JLEF) said: “The Hotel Show has presented us with an excellent opportunity to connect with top level professionals from the hospitality industry in the Middle East who have a real interest in Japan. Despite this being our first time at the show, we already have a number of potential business tie-ups lined up post-show. An absolute must for any organisation in the hospitality industry with links to the region.”

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Danube Group’s furniture and home décor wing, Danube Home, revealed it was entering into an exclusive dealership with Portugal-based hotel furniture supplier, whereby Danube Home will be the sole supplier of its product offerings in the region. These include complete contract furniture solutions and other restaurant furniture available in metallic and wooden finishes.

Onity was another firm that saw success at The Hotel Show. “Much like the rest of the world, the hospitality industry is changing rapidly because of technology,” said Borja Ibarrondo, MD, Onity & Supra, EMEA.

“Properties need products that allow them to seamlessly offer the kind of efficient, secure and state-of-art experience that guests are accustomed to in other areas of their lives. Our new Trillium lock and suite of products provide exactly that.”

The DirectKey product was launched at the event, and Ibarrondo said: “We’re excited to unveil an industry-leading mobile key solution in a space where more offerings are becoming available. With DirectKey, we know that hotel staff and guests will receive the kind of innovative technology and advanced security products they need with the ease of use they desire.

“The Hotel Show was the ideal venue to showcase our products and present our new solutions, as it gathered all the public we were looking to meet. Key decision makers attended so we took the opportunity to meet them face-to-face, to show them how we can exceed their expectations.”

The Hotel Show Dubai 2016 will take place 17-19 September 2016 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.