DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar has awarded Europe’s largest lodge group Accor to handle flats and villas that can home followers visiting Qatar throughout subsequent 12 months’s World Cup, the Cup’s organising committee stated on Thursday.
Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Supply & Legacy stated in an announcement it had signed an settlement with Accor to run operations and providers throughout its host nation actual property portfolio by the tip of 2022.
The choice to make full use of the Gulf Arab state’s current residential and flats and villas will be certain that the nation can have “a sustainable lodge market that doesn’t go away Qatar with extra everlasting lodge rooms post-2022,” Hassan al Thawadi, who heads Qatar’s organising physique was quoted as saying.
Accor will present employees to handle and function greater than 60,000 rooms in flats and villas scattered throughout the Gulf Arab state, a separate Qatari official advised Reuters.
World Cup organisers hope to draw 1.2 million guests to Qatar through the 28-day occasion, which kicks off subsequent November. However Qatar has fewer than 30,000 lodge rooms in operation, in line with knowledge printed in August by the Qatar Nationwide Tourism Authority.
Qatar is dwelling to 2.9 million individuals, 85% of whom are foreigners. Because the world’s largest producer of liquified pure fuel, Qatar has among the many highest per capita incomes on the earth.
(Reporting by Andrew Mills; Enhancing by Lincoln Feast.)
