Louvre Hotels Group is to expand its portfolio of properties in Saudi Arabia to 47 by 2025.

IHG Hotels and Resorts has signed a deal with RIVA Development Company to open seven new hotels across the Saudi Arabia.

Marriott International has signed a deal with Saudi Arabian real estate company Al Saedan Group to open three hotels across the country.

Hospitality software company Duetto added 250 hotels and 40,000 hotel rooms to its Europe, Middle East and Africa portfolio last year, taking the number of hotel rooms using the software in the region to more than 225,000. 

The rollout of vaccines is spurring travel demand but that doesn't mean that 2021 is going to automatically be better than 2020.

Hotels in the Middle East stayed afloat in November, with the region recording its highest revpar and trevpar since the pandemic debilitated the region, at $55.11 and $97.49, respectively.

The hotel construction pipeline in the Middle East declined by 7% to 579 projects at the end of the third quarter, according to Lodging Econometrics.

Accor has added India and Turkey to its Middle East & Africa region.

The WB Abu Dhabi, the first Warner Bros-branded hotel, will be operated and managed by Hilton under its Curio Collection by Hilton brand.

The latest data from the UNWTO showed a 70% fall in international arrivals for the first eight months of 2020.