Asia-Asia Hotel

World’s biggest hotel

Centre piece of Bawadi will be the world’s largest hotel, Asia-Asia which will have 6,500 rooms of which 5,100 will be four-star and 1,400 five star rooms.

The Asia-Asia hotel is scheduled for completion in 2010?

Anybody reading the new book from UAE Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum about his vision for the emirate should not be so surprised by this initiative. The vision of Dubai is somewhat akin to the biggest business plan in the world, according to those who have read the book..

The stated objective is for Dubai to have 15 million tourists a year by 2012 compared with 6.2 million last year. This clearly requires massive growth in hotel rooms – and Bawadi will make a big contribution, although many hotels are already under development elsewhere in the emirate.

Bawadi is being developed by a unit of Dubai Holding called Tatweer headed by Saeed Al Muntafiq, who has been leading the multi-billion dollar Dubailand theme park project since its inception and has an established track-record of delivering ambitious Dubai projects to date.