Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts

Operators have identified both an undersupply of luxury resorts and a lack of international hotel brands in Jordan. In a country aiming to attract four million tourists by 2013, Louise Oakley discovers that this provides maximum opportunity for accommodation development.

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Budget hotel chain plans new properties in Dubai and Manama.

With numerous low-cost brands making a splash in the region, Lucy Taylor takes a look at why budget is booming and considers what it will take for brands to survive in the Middle East.

InterContintental Hotels Group (IHG) has embarked on a "mammoth journey" to relaunch its Holiday Inn brand family.

Vista had Keane set the scene with a relaxed interior scheme.

No frills hotels will be an instant hit with both business and leisure travellers visiting Dubai, the owning company of the brand new Dubai Express by Holiday Inn property has claimed.

Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced it will open a 400-room Holiday Inn branded property in Bur Dubai - the company's first Sharia-compliant property in the United Arab Emirates.

A further 20 hotels in the budget chain are set to open across the GCC and Jordan over the next five years.

While independent hoteliers have offered limited service and budget hotels on a collectively large scale for some time now, larger hotel chains are looking to get in on the action in the Middle East with branded budget alternatives catering to the mid-market traveler.

Hotel industry consultant Guy Wilkinson looks at the hotels' use of alternative branding in the Middle East, and finds that in several cases hotels may want to consider a different tactic.

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