Minister of Tourism Nabil al-Faqeeh disclosed that Lodging Committee in Gulf 20 Football Championship is demanded to provide more than 710 five- star rooms, 2000 rooms for media men and journalists and lodging 20,000 audience in the championship to be held here on 2010, Saba reported. Al-Faqeeh, who also chairs the committee, argued owners and in charge of hotels and lodging facilities to practice their role for qualifying these facilities according conditions demanded for hosting the championship, adding that there are a number of new investment projects, focusing on increasing bed capacity in the governorate, still under study. During the inspection visit of al-Faqeeh and Minster of Youth and Sports Hamoud Obad and Aden Governor Adnan al-Jefry to a number of tourist and hotel and tourist facilities in Aden, the officials listened to ongoing works for qualifying Aden Hotel to expand its bed capacity to reach 186 and inspected services in Mercury Hotel with bed capacity of 117. Obad and al-Jefry then inspected the project of constructing Abyan Coast Complex Hotel that costs $ 5 million. The hotel is composed of seven floors and contains 176 rooms. They argued concerned officials to speed up accomplishing the project to utilize it in housing coming delegations to the championship.
