Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has launched the Rosewood Dubai project at the Arabian Travel Market.

The 154-room and 36-suite Rosewood Dubai is to offer two world-class restaurants, an exquisite ballroom, and 49 Rosewood Residences for extended stays. In addition, guests can enjoy the Rosewood Spa, an 18,000-square-foot sanctuary offering a rooftop pool and fitness centre, 12 treatment rooms, including one exclusively for men, a Hammam, and two private spa suites. Spacious, high-tech meeting and banquet facilities with the personalised services of a meeting butler, a Grand Ballroom for up to 400 persons, four individual state-of-the-art meeting venues catering for 20 - 200 guests, and three executive boardrooms are to be offered too.

According to Michael Gibb, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts' vice president of Operations and Development, Middle East, 'We're all very excited about opening our first property in Dubai and are looking forward to expanding our portfolio of outstanding luxury hotels to a variety of other prime locations in the region. We're consistently looking at new opportunities to reinforce the Rosewood presence and develop the brand within the Middle East, and the expansion possibilities include Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt.'

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