Rotana Inaugurates Additional Global Sales Offices in Line With Its Expansion Plans

Press release

Published July 16th, 2018 - 08:13 GMT

Declan Hurley, Rotana Corporate Vice President - Sales

Rotana, one of the leading hotel management companies in the region with properties across the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, has announced the inauguration of three new Global Sales Offices in Paris, Milan and Amsterdam. These will complement the company’s existing offices in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Germany, India, Russia, the UAE and the United Kingdom, to help support Rotana’s expansion plans and drive business from these key markets.

Declan Hurley, Rotana Corporate Vice President - Sales, declared: “The main responsibilities of these new offices will be to grow our client base, introduce our brands to new clients, promote, market, and sell our properties based outside of their physical location. Taking into consideration the huge potential of these markets, which have seen a growth of 16% to our hotels across the Middle East, Rotana has appointed Aviareps as its GSA, owing to their experience, reputation, and presence across Europe. We are pleased with how our relationship has got off the ground and we have compiled a solid sales and marketing plan with a wide range of sales activities to roll out during the remainder of 2018 and throughout 2019.”

“Our plan is to have more offices across key markets within the next 24 months. This is in line with the overall expansion of Rotana properties and our growing market segment,” Hurley concluded.

Background Information

Rotana Hotel Management Corporation

Rotana was founded in 1992, by a partnership between two visionary thinkers, 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 in Abu Dhabi in 1993 and is today one of the leading hotel management companies within the Middle East and North Africa.

Rotana is a company offering the best of both worlds. A unique understanding of the culture and communities of the Middle East combined with the collective expertise of an executive team contributing over 35 years of international experience in the service industry.

Rotana aggressive expansion plans have seen the company grow from 2 properties in 1993 to a total of 70 by 2014. With several further properties planned for opening and new projects in the pipeline confirming the company's intention to have a Rotana managed property in all the major cities throughout the Middle East and North Africa within the next five years.