Skift Take
The pace of hotel development in the Middle East is picking up after a two-year dry spell. The key to making these hotels a success is showing this region is still a place to visit when the rest of the world is back to open borders and on a level tourism playing field.
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Hotel brands typically point to the U.S., China, and Europe as their main three geographic benchmarks for recovery from the pandemic. But the Middle East is the real winner.
Many of the publicly traded hotel companies to report fourth quarter and full-year 2021 earnings