New luxury resort for Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Beach District

United Arab Emirates-based developer Bin Otaiba Investment Group has unveiled plans to develop a new five-star resort on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi's cultural and tourism zone.

The Emirate's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) recently announced the sale of a 91,000 metre2 area of land that will be developed to host a hotel featuring 366 rooms and beach villas, restaurants, a spa centre and fitness centre, sand-bottom swimming pool, gardens and water features.

In addition to four museums (including satellites of the Louvre and New York's Guggenheim), a performing arts centre, a New York University campus and golf courses, Saadiyat Island has become an attractive destination for hospitality investments with new hotel and spa projects from hotel groups such as Shangri-La and Rotana in the pipeline.

Last year the destination saw the opening of St Regis Saadiyat, Island Resort, Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Villas and Monte-Carlo Beach Club.

While Saadiyat Island's museums set to open between 2015 and 2017, the new Bin Otaiba hotel is scheduled to open on the Island's Beach District in 2015.

The Bin Otaiba Investment Group which includes a portfolio of distinctive properties and hotels across the UAE, such as Hilton Sharjah, Millennium Hotel Abu Dhabi, and Embassy Suites Hotel in Sharjah is currently in the final stage of appointing an operator for the property.

This new development will follow strict compliance with TDIC's high standards of construction and design guidelines, to ensure the ecosystem of Saadiyat Island remains intact.

Particular attention is focused on TDIC's turtle conservation program which respects the nesting and hatching seasons.

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