47. P.R.S. Oberoi, Executive Chairman, The Oberoi Group
Double Doha debut swells the Indian hotel group’s regional pipeline
P.R.S. (Prithvi Raj Singh) Oberoi is the son of the Oberoi hotel group’s original founder, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi. The Indian-born luxury hotel group is very much a family business, with P.R.S. Oberoi’s son Vikram looking after operations for the hotel group, and already named as the successor to his 87-year-old father.
In the region, the Oberoi Group has a growing presence, with three operational hotels (one Dubai property, one hotel in Madinah, KSA, and one Egyptian hotel and two cruisers), and an additional three hotels in the pipeline. The brand is expected to make its debut in Ajman, with the opening of The Oberoi Beach Resort, Al Zorah in December 2016, and its debut in Qatar, with two new Doha properties now on the cards. The Doha properties, a 250-key hotel in the West Bay area and a 148-key serviced apartment building in Lusail, are currently both expected to open in 2018.
P.R.S. Oberoi previously told Hotelier: “We are extremely pleased to have been selected by the Qatar General Insurance and Reinsurance Company to assist them in the design and management of these two projects and we look forward to bringing the Oberoi hospitality to the Qatar market.”
By the numbers
14 Number of years in the role
3 Number of Middle East operating hotels (and two Nile Cruisers)
3 Number of Middle East pipeline hotels as of july 2016
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