Dorchester Collection to open first Dubai hotel by year end

Dorchester Collection to open first Dubai hotel by year end

Dorchester Collection will open its first hotel in Dubai by the end of the year, adding another luxurious offering to the city’s lineup of high-end lodging. The Lana, which will be developed and owned by the emirate’s Omniyat Holdings, will include 225 rooms and suites. It will be the Dorchester Collection’s first hotel in Asia and the Middle East, and 10th globally, according to Omniyat Chairman Mahdi Amjad, who started a partnership with the chain in 2018. also operates properties in London, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Los Angeles. “We are trying to identify other regional and global destinations that will work for this collaboration to expand into,” Amjad said in an interview. “What we have created together with the Dorchester collection is quite unique and it’s worthy of a global scale.” Dubai is cashing in on a hospitality boom that started during the pandemic when the city opened its hotels and restaurants as other cities across the world were still in lockdown. Since then, hotel revenue and occupancy rates have surged on an influx of newcomers, including Russians looking to protect their wealth, Israeli investors, crypto millionaires, and hedge fund executives. Average occupancy rates for hotels in the city were