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Dr Salah Kai-Bhukayyet
VP Investment, Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA)
Dr Salah Kai-Bhukayyet has played an increasingly significant role in driving an expanding and increasingly diversified hotel industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Reporting directly to SCTA president and board chairman HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Kai-Bhukayyet is instrumental in ensuring the country achieves its ambitious goals.
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He was a key presence at this year’s Arabian Hotel Investment Conference, where he said the focus right now was on domestic and religious tourism, but SCTA has also been successful in increasing MICE business in the country and opening up Saudi Arabia to the mature, cultural traveller.
Kai-Bhukayyet recognises that there is a lack of investment in Saudi Arabia’s hotel market, which is why over a 10-year period there are plans to introduce 85,000 hotel rooms and 80,000 rooms in the furnished apartment sector.
Visitor numbers to Saudi Arabia are expected to nearly double from 47 million in 2008 to 88 million by 2020.
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