Oryx Rotana bags the Guest Review Award with a 8.4 rating from Booking.com

Press release

Published January 31st, 2016 - 09:09 GMT

Oryx Rotana outside vision SUNSET

Oryx Rotana, the five star luxury business hotel in Doha, has received the Booking.com™ Guest Review Award with an average of 8.4 rating. This award is based on a poll of 652 visitors who have stayed at Oryx Rotana and experienced various restaurants and services, besides excellent facilities at this hotel.

Booking.com is considered to be one of the most important specialized global platforms in the field of online reservations. The site is available in 40 languages and provides 854,976 venues in over 221 countries with a turnover of 950000 rooms’ booking daily since it was launched in 1996. Booking.com provides the best rate ever while booking rooms, suites and furnished apartments across all levels (1 star , 2 stars , 3 stars, 4 stars and 5 stars) and independent self-served furnished outlets through its recently launched sister website Villas.com.

On this occasion, Lana Jwainat, Cluster Director of Marketing and Communications at Oryx Rotana and Rotana City Center said: "We are delighted to get a rating of 8.4 from Booking.com, the leading platform for online reservations globally. We have made a quantum leap in the hospitality business in particular and tourism sector in general, because of the best services that we have introduced in the market since the kick off our operations 5 years ago. This has elevated the experience of our guests coming from abroad as well as locally."

"As expected, we achieved outstanding occupancy rates and a continuous growth year after year, since we aimed at providing exceptional hospitality standards from the very beginning. Thanks to our professional team, we were able to make a clear difference in the services provided to guests and visitors," she added.

Background Information

Rotana Hotel Management Corporation

Rotana was founded in 1992, by a partnership between two visionary thinkers, Nasser Al Nowais and Selim El Zyr, who were joined three years later by Nael Hashweh and Imad Elias.

Operating as Rotana, it opened its first property in Abu Dhabi in 1993 and is today one of the leading hotel management companies within the Middle East and North Africa.

Rotana is a company offering the best of both worlds. A unique understanding of the culture and communities of the Middle East combined with the collective expertise of an executive team contributing over 35 years of international experience in the service industry.

Rotana aggressive expansion plans have seen the company grow from 2 properties in 1993 to a total of 70 by 2014. With several further properties planned for opening and new projects in the pipeline confirming the company's intention to have a Rotana managed property in all the major cities throughout the Middle East and North Africa within the next five years.