(ANSAmed) - ISTANBUL, MAY 7 - One of the luxurious hotel
chains of the Middle East and the Gulf region has decided to
invest in Turkey, as Anatolia news agency reports. Rotana
Hotels' CEO Selim El Zyr said on Monday Rotana picked the
Turkish southern town of Iskenderun to construct a hotel.
''We have decided to invest in Iskenderun with our Rhassos
Rotana brand,'' Zyr also said. The 300-bed luxurious hotel is
expected to open its doors in 2014. Rotana Hotel Management
Corporation was founded in 1992 by Nasser Al Nowais and Selim
El Zyr, who were joined three years later by Nael Hashweh and
Imad Elias. Operating as Rotana, it opened its first property,
the Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi in 1993 and is today one of the
leading hotel management companies within the Middle East and
Africa. Rotana operates 70 hotels by 2012, and aims to make 750
million USD of investments by the end of this year. (ANSAmed).
