Tourism Breaking News
At a special interview with Travel TV Middle East at their first GCC roadshow for the year conducted by Shaza hotels, it was disclosed that two hotels will be opening this year and four hotels the next year, but the biggest news was their plan to open the first hotel in USA by 2025/2026 in Orlando, USA in front of the world famous Disneyland. They will be the first to enter USA with a true Arabian hospitality brand in partnership with a Canadian developer with 500 rooms.
Shaji Abu Salih Corporate Director Business Development Shaza Hotels and Mysk Hotels shared, “we are opening our first Mysk and Shaza hotels in Orlando, right in front of Disneyland, we will be the first Arabian hospitality brand entering into the United States of America. We are expecting to open by 2026, work is going on as we partnering with one of the developer from Canada, it will be a multi -property complex so by 2025,2026 we should be there with about 500 rooms.”
He further reiterated, “Shaza is expecting to open two new hotels this year, one is in Dubai, we are coming to Dubai, the first hotel will be Mysk the Palm Jumeirah and then we are also opening Mysk Nomad, our first glamping on wheels concept and this will be in Al Hamriyah beach of Sharjah, so we have 2 projects this year and 4 openings next year which includes Salalah and Khorfakkan which is a beautiful Mysk retreat on the mountains and the Mutra souk, Oman and our first hotel in Jeddah, Mysk Jeddah. Mysk Palm Jumeirah to open by first July, end of Q2 or early Q3, and Q4 Al Hamriyah Sharjah.”
Their expansion plans are not just across GCC but Middle East region, “right now we are in Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and we have expansion plans in Kuwait and there is dialogue happening in Bahrain. We are also having expansion plans across the levant, Turkey, Egypt and Far East.”
his is our first roadshow in GCC this year, we started from Jeddah, we went to Riyadh, Dammam, Kuwait, Doha and now in Dubai and we will continue to Muscat. We have invited the top 100 travel trade partners, corporate and media, to thank them for their great support and to strategize how we move forward together in this changing phase of this post pandemic era, how to work together and enhance our relationship and business development portfolio.
