Michael Scully, MANAGING DIRECTOR Seven Tides Hospitality Michael Scully, MANAGING DIRECTOR Seven Tides Hospitality

Michael Scully
MANAGING DIRECTOR, Seven Tides Hospitality

Dubai-based hotelier and managing director of hotel owning company Seven Tides Hospitality Michael Scully moves up the rankings in this year’s Power 50 following the successful opening of the group’s first hotel.

Ibn Battuta Gate, a 396-room destination hotel operated by Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts, soft opened in September 2010. The hotel had suffered several delays but Scully and his team pushed forward with the opening this year and entered the peak Dubai season with competitive rates and a fresh, fun offering.

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The race is now on to open Mövenpick Deira by the year end, and then the group’s two properties on the Palm Jumeirah — Royal Amwaj Resort and Spa and Oceana, The Palm — in 2011.

Also this year, Seven Tides has opened the West 14th steakhouse at the residences part of Oceana and a beach club, which will be open to guests of Ibn Battuta.