Jumeirah to open its first European resort

Jumeirah to open its first European resort


(DUBAI) Jumeirah Group, the hotel management company owned by Dubai’s government, leased a property being built in Mallorca, Spain from a German real estate fund to gain its first European resort and spa.

The 120-room Jumeirah Port Soller resort is held on a ‘long-term’ lease from the WestInvest Interselect fund, Jumeirah said in a statement posted on its website yesterday.

The resort, due to open in 2010, is being built by WingField Corp and was bought for WestInvest by Deka Immobilien GmbH, according to the statement.

Jumeirah is expanding outside Dubai, where it manages the sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel. The company has urban hotels in London and New York, and aims to expand its network five-fold to 57 properties by 2011, chairman Gerald Lawless had said in May.

Spanish hotel prices rose the most in four years last month, led by rate increases on the Balearic islands including Mallorca, the Spanish government said in a report yesterday.



Source: Business Times