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Hilton to manage 2 new hotels in Riyadh
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 20 - 08 - 2010

Hilton Worldwide has signed up to manage two new hotels in Riyadh, a city ranked high on the global hospitality performance scale.
“Hotel performance in KSA and Riyadh in particular fared very well during the first six months of 2010 relative to regional and global lodging markets. Deloitte's Global RevPAR rankings cite that Riyadh holds a third position just below Dubai and Geneva,” Sven Gade, director and head of consulting at PKF.
Saudi Arabia is one of the leading development markets in the Middle East for Hilton, said Andrew Clough, the group's senior vice-president development for Middle East & Asia-Pacific.
“Riyadh is drawing both domestic and international visitors from strong business and corporate markets,” he commented on the two management agreements signed with Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Endowment.
The group already manages six hotels in the country in Makkah, Madina, Jeddah and Riyadh and plans to open the Hilton Riyadh King Saud University (241 rooms) and the Hilton Riyadh King Saud University Residence (155 rooms) by 2012.
The signing of the Management Agreement with Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Endowment for the two hotels was announced yesterday.
The signing was conducted by Abdullah A. Al Othman, director, King Saud University, Essam Abouda, vice-president, Pperations, Hilton Worldwide, Arabian Peninsula and Indian Ocean and Carlos Khneisser, senior director of Development, Hilton Worldwide, Middle East.
The two hotels are unlikely to compete with their counterparts in Riyadh itself. King Saud University City, although a significant mixed-use development in terms of build-up area and in close proximity to Riyadh is anticipated to complement rather than compete with the lodging market of the capital, said Gade.
“The area is expected to cater primarily to students, teachers and their visiting family and friends as opposed to the business segment which is traditionally catered to by Riyadh,” he added.
Four more hotels including the Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn and Doubletree brands are expected to come on line between the end of next year and 2014. The group's strategy focuses on rolling out Hilton's economy brand Garden Inn across the country. The development pipeline envisages an additional 2,500 rooms. Saudi GDP is forecast to grow by 2.5 to 4 percent during the next four years.


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