Hi In pictures "A": 20 hotels under construction.

Hi In pictures "A": 20 hotels under construction.

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Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residence.

Set to open next year, this project consists of two towers: a 20 story building housing the 645 guest rooms and suites, and a 14 story building housing the 221 full service apartments. 

The hotel also has four restaurants, including a roof garden cafeteria, a business centre, health club with an indoor swimming pool and a 1,750 seat ballroom. 

The total built-up area is 220,000 square metres and the towers will be connected to the adjacent Granada Mall by a 400 metre air-conditioned skywalk.

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Millennium Hotel Makkah (Umm Al Qurah).

The biggest hotel on our radar, at 1,400 keys, is unsurprisingly in Makkah, which dominates this list. 

With major hotel groups from around the world seizing the opportunity to tap into the flow of religious pilgrims to the city, expect to see plenty of development on the hospitality front there over the coming years. 

This particular hotel is still in the planning stages, although more details of the project, including timings, are imminent.

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Holiday Inn Makkah Al Azizah.

The 1,238-room Holiday Inn Makkah Al Azizah in Saudi Arabia is set to be the brand’s largest in the world when it opens in 2015 and is the result of an agreement between InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Makkah Real Estate Company. 

Located near the city’s business centre, it will be built in two towers that will also house an all-day dining restaurant, two coffee shops, a ballroom, health club and pool. 

The new hotel will be 3.5km from the Haram, 3.5 kilometres from Mina, 1km from Jamarat, 6.4km from Mouzdalifah and 14.5km from Mount Arafat.

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Best Western Makkah.

This hotel currently has a tentative opening date in December 2015 and will have 560 keys. 

It will be a Best Western Premier property, meaning it is very much in the luxury category.

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Hilton Makadi Resort.

Originally scheduled to open in 2011, the 676-room Hilton Makadi Resort is currently due to start welcoming guests in the second quarter of 2015.

Situated in a prime location in the new area of Makadi Bay, about 30km south of Hurghada and 35km from Hurghada International Airport, the hotel overlooks the Red Sea front with a 400-meter, private sandy beach. The property will feature two meeting rooms, three lounges, an all-day dining and two specialty restaurants. 

It will also offer three swimming pools, a health club, spa, and diving centre for leisure, in addition to a private beach.

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Madinat Jumeirah phase four, Dubai.

Phase four of the Madinat Jumeirah will see the addition of a 435 room property, which will bring total number of keys at the resort to 1,300.

Speaking to Hotelier recently, Jumeirah president and group CEO Gerald Lawless said: “That project is on schedule for opening in Q1 of 2016… and is really a very, very appropriately designed hotel which will sort of join together the very modern structures of Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj al Arab and the more traditional design of Madinat Jumeriah, though I do accept that Madinat Jumeriah was opened after Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj al Arab, but that’s just the way it happened, and I think that’s going to be very significant.”

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Hilton Bab Makkah North.

Forming part of the Jabal Omar Development Company project, this hotel is set to have 865 rooms, with two all day dining F&B outlets and one lounge, as well as a health club. 

It is one of six Hilton hotels – covering all the brands the company offers in the region - that are part of the development. 

While one of the tower of the Hilton Suites Makkah is now open, this particular property is not scheduled to open until 2016.

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Hyatt Regency Makkah.

Another hotel being developed by Jabal Omar Development Company, the Hyatt Regency Makkah is slated to open this year and will offer 628 guestrooms, in addition to meeting facilities, several dining venues, a Regency Club lounge, a spa and fitness centre, and 24-hour in-room dining. 

Further phases of the development will see two more hotels, Hyatt Place and Hyatt Summerfield Suites, open in due course.

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JW Marriott Hotel Makkah. 

Located directly on the Haram overlooking the Grand Mosque’s plaza in central Makkah, JW Marriott Hotel Makkah will have 639 rooms and is expected to open in 2016. 

It is one of three Marriott International hotels in the development and its choice of guest rooms will include a number of duplex suites, more than 200 junior suites and more than 400 standard king and double accommodations. 

The hotel will also offer five distinctive restaurants and lounges ranging in ambience from casual to specialty.

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M Hotel Makkah.

Another property from Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, this four-star hotel, being developed by Nobola, is set to open in the second quarter of 2015 and will have 756 keys. 

It will be strategically located approximately two kilometres from the Haram in Makkah central zone area.

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Best Western Bougary, Makkah.

Another huge project under construction in Makkah, this is the larger of two Best Western properties on the list, with 1,200 keys. 

It will part of the company’s midscale portfolio and has a December 2015 pencilled in as the tentative opening date. 

Having only opened its first hotel in the city in August 2013 – with a 152-room property close to the Holy Mosque - Best Western has moved quickly to expand its presence and this new construction will firmly set it among the big players in the market.

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DoubleTree by Hilton Makkah.

This DoubleTree by Hilton property, again part of the Jabal Omar development, is set to open in 2016 and will have 806 rooms. 

Its F&B options will include two specialty, one all day dining and two lounges, while it will also have two meeting rooms for events. 

Among the other amenities on offer will be a health club.

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Millennium Bab Al Qasr.

Scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2015, this property in Abu Dhabi will have a total of 677 keys. 

One of its towers will be a five-star hotel with 408 rooms and all the expected leisure amenities, from spas to restaurants. 

The second tower will contain apartments and a retail plaza and its own leisure equivalents. 

The hotel tower will face out to see and the two towers will be linked by two multi-storey bridges: the first between the fifth and tenth floors, and the second bridge between the 20th and the 26th.

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Hilton Bab Makkah South.

Very much a sister property to Hilton Bab Makkah North, this hotel will have 856 rooms and, for F&B, two all day dining outlets and two lounges.

For events it will have two meeting rooms and one ballroom and the hotel will also boast a health club.

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