IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the
world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, and Muscat Golf Course Project
have struck a 20-year management agreement for the luxury InterContinental
Muscat Hills Golf Resort in Oman.
Signed during the 2012 Arabian Hotel
Investment Conference taking place in Dubai, the hotel will form part of the
Muscat Hills Golf and Country Club – a 1.2 million sq/m development set in a
unique hillside location with spectacular panoramic mountain and sea views over
the Gulf of Oman.
Muscat Hills is a mixed use development
with residential villas and apartments, an 18-hole championship golf course,
country club and hotel.
InterContinental Muscat Hills Golf Resort
will have a total of 250-rooms and four food and beverage outlets, a fitness
centre, spa and swimming pool. The InterContinental team will also manage the
golf club house located next door to the hotel.
The hotel and club house are due to open in
2015 and the project is projected to be worth a total of $90 million.