Hotel rooms in Qatar could grow by 400% by 2012 if Qatar Tourism and Exhibition Authority plans come to fruition.
Current plans see 29,000 hotel rooms available by 2012 with a total investment of seventeen billion dollars over a five year period. The number of hotel rooms is then seen as rising to 80,000 in 2016.
According to the Peninsula and Zawya.com, which ran the story today, the authority is targeting a 20% increase in visitors in that time. They aim to do this by persuading 5% of those passing through Doha International Airport to stay in the country for an extra 24 hours.
They could also increase the numbers by persuading the immigration authorities in Qatar to stop blocking previous residents returning to Qatar for a holiday. We have heard of numerous incidents of ex-residents coming to the country to visit friends and families and being denied entrance at the airport - not an experience that encourages word of mouth recommendations of Qatar as a tourist destination!
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