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UAE-based TIME Hotels’ CEO meets with the President
of the Republic of Tatarstan and the
republic’s Mufti to discuss promotion of halal tourism and potential
investments in the region’s capital city of Kazan
TIME Hotels, the UAE-headquartered hospitality company and
hotel operator, is targeting investment opportunities in the Republic of Tatarstan as it continues its international expansion of
the TIME Hotels’ brand.
Mohamed Awadalla, CEO of TIME Hotels, was invited by the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic
of Tatarstan to meet and discuss
potential hospitality investments in the region’s capital city of Kazan.
Awadalla met
with Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of
Tatarstan; Sergey
Ivanov,
Chairman, State Committee on Tourism of the
Republic of Tatarstan; Insaf
Galiev, First Deputy Chief Executive, Government of the Republic of
Tatarstan and Tatartstan Investment Development
Agency; and Taliya Minulina, Member of Tatarstan Government,
Russian Federation
and Chief
Executive Officer for Tatarstan Investment Development Agency.
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After meeting the President,
Awadalla then met with Kamil Hazrat Samigullin, Mufti of Tatarstan to discuss the promotion of halal tourism as well
as potential hospitality investments in the Republic of Tatarstan.
With a focus on further developing their halal
tourism industry, the Mufti of Tatarstan highlighted TIME Hotels as the ideal
hospitality brand to help with this mission, with over eight years of managing
and operating halal friendly hotels in the UAE and across the Middle East.
“With more than
one million visitors per year and rising, the Republic of Tatarstan is one of
the fastest growing tourist destinations in Russia and is an ideal location to
continue our international expansion of the TIME Hotels brand,” said Mohamed
Awadalla, CEO, TIME Hotels.
Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kama
Rivers, the Republic of Tatarstan is located approximately 800km east of
Moscow, with its capital city, Kazan, often referred to as the ‘third capital
of Russia’.
Renowned for its sports infrastructure and its
stunning architecture including the Kazan Kremlin, a UNESCO world heritage
site, Tatarstan has become an increasingly popular summer destination due to
its packed calendar of summer festivals including the annual opera spectacular
which attracts an array of world-class performers.
“Rich with culture, fine arts and over 1,000
years of history as well as boasting a cutting-edge culinary scene plentiful
with halal-friendly options, Tatarstan not only caters to the needs of GCC
travellers but is also within very easy reach with two direct flydubai flights
per week from the UAE,” Awadalla said.
Over
the coming 12 months, TIME
Hotels will be focusing on expanding its current portfolio, with several
openings scheduled across Dubai and the wider UAE as well as other properties
across the MENA region including Egypt.
Awadalla added: “As always we have been very
strategic with our upcoming openings, identifying and assessing demand within
the market and working to implement the most suitable brand from the TIME
portfolio that best matches that demand.”
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