Abu Dhabi-based Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) will be developing a further four hotels for Saadiyat Beach on Saaidyat Island.
Abu Dhabi-based Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) will be developing a further four hotels for Saadiyat Beach on Saaidyat Island.
“There are plans to announce four coming,” said TDIC senior communications manager Abu Dhabi projects Mahra Khalid Al Qassimi at Arabian Travel Market.
“All of them will be five-star hotels, on Saadiyat Beach, all five-star hotels,” she said.
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The four hotels will join the already announced Saadiyat Rotana, Shangri-La Hotel, Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Residences, St Regis Hotel and Residences and Park Hyatt Resort.
St Regis and Park Hyatt will be the first to open, with delivery scheduled for third quarter 2010.
Manarat Al Saadiyat, featuring Arts Abu Dhabi Gallery and The Saadiyat Story experience centre, opened on Saadiyat in April and attracted 5000 people in one month, said Al Qassimi.
“We have locals and international visitors, and travel agents from all over the world, who come to visit and fund out more about the future of Abu Dhabi,” said Al Qassimi.
A theatre, restaurant, Universal and Contemporary Galleries are scheduled to open at Manarat Al Saadiyat in the third quarter of 2010.
The Saadiyat Beach Golf Club, which opened in January 2010, has also been popular, said Al Qassimi,
“The golf club captured more than 3000 visitors in two months,” she said. “It’s the first beach front golf course.”
It would be a key to helping drive demand when the first hotels open in 2011, she added.
In total, TDIC will be opening “1800 rooms by 2012 and 1700 residential to accommodate 2.3 million visitors to Abu Dhabi”, said Al Qassimi.
Currently, Abu Dhabi attracts just over 1.5 million visitors.
Al Qassimi said the local residents would “play a very huge role in making up the occupancy of the rooms”.
By 2020, there will be 160,000 people living on Saadiyat Island, said Al Qassimi, with people starting to move into the villas next year.
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