$22m luxury hotel to open in Bahrain.Byline: Manama ManamaArabic Al-Manamah City (pop., 2001: 143,035), capital of Bahrain. Situated at the northeastern tip of Bahrain island, it is Bahrain's largest city, with about one-fifth of the emirate's population. A new BD8.5 million ($22.54 million) luxury hotel is to be opened in the heart of Manama in August next year, it has been revealed in London. The Park Grand Bahrain will be located at the premises of the old landmark Jashanmal Building on Al Khalifa Road, which is now being developed as a four-star family-cum-business hotel by Mashtan Hotel Management. The project will be managed by the London-based Park Grand Hotels Ltd. The announcement was made during the Bahrain Night, hosted by Shaftesbury Hotels managing director and vice president Ramesh Arora, in association with the Bahrain Telegraph telegraph, term originally applied to any device or system for distant communication by means of visible or audible signals, now commonly restricted to electrically operated devices. Attempts at long-distance communication date back thousands of years (see signaling). magazine, at The Montcalm Hotel in Marble Arch Marble Arch is a white Carrara marble monument near Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, at the western end of Oxford Street in London, England, near the tube station of the same name. , London. The Bahrain Night was attended by delegates from Bahrain taking part in the World Travel Market, including top officials from the Culture and Information Ministry's Tourism Sector and Civil Aviation Affairs, as well as international guests. A management contract was earlier signed by Mashtan Hotel Management chairman Hussain Ebrahim Al Mudaweb, with Park Grand Hotels director Rahul Arora. Work on the new hotel is in progress and is scheduled for completion in August next year, said Al Mudaweb. 'The 120-room hotel will attract corporate clients and families from around the world,' he noted. 'We are proud to join hands with a renowned hotel management group which currently manages about 25 luxury hotels in central London The term Central London refers to the districts of London which are considered closest to the centre. There is no such conventional definition, nor any official one, for the entire area that can be called "central London". .' The new hotel will help promote Bahrain's drive to establish itself as a destination for international tourists, said Arora. 'We shall use our network to attract more tourists from UK and other parts of Europe to Bahrain, which is known for its hospitality, culutre and heritage,' he added.- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion