Melia and Omniyat Sign Agreement for New Hotel in Dubai

Mr. Mahdi Amjad, Executive Chairman and CEO of Omniyat, and Mr Gabriel Escarrer, CEO and Vice Chairman of Meliá Hotels International, have signed an agreement for a new hotel - ME Dubai - scheduled to open in Dubai in early 2016.

Mr. Amjad, said, “Last October, we surprised the market by announcing the first hotel entirely designed by Zaha Hadid, and since then, as expected, the interest of potential investors has not stopped growing. I can see that ME Dubai will be a quantum leap in the Middle East Hotel & Real Estate market.”

Mr. Escarrer explained how proud he felt about signing ME Dubai, which in his opinion, will become the hottest hotel opening in years, “Dubai is in full recovery these days, along with the dynamic Middle East region, and the ME Dubai hotel will provide a completely new hotel and leisure offering for the emerging and very specific social psychographic: the open minded and stylish crowd looking for places and people to engage with.”