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Dubai hotel market

2 stories · First covered Mar 29, 2026 · Latest Mar 30
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Iran Just Named Specific Hotels as Military Targets. This Changes the Security Conversation.
Operations
Mar 30

Iran Just Named Specific Hotels as Military Targets. This Changes the Security Conversation.

When a state actor publicly names five-star hotels as "legitimate targets" and backs it up with strikes that have already damaged properties in the Gulf, every GM running a hotel in an internationally sensitive market needs to rethink what "security" actually means in their operation.

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Mike Storm 3 min read · Mar 30
Accor Is Posting Double-Digit RevPAR in the Middle East. The Supply Pipeline Should Scare You.
Operations
Mar 29

Accor Is Posting Double-Digit RevPAR in the Middle East. The Supply Pipeline Should Scare You.

Accor's Q4 numbers across the Middle East look phenomenal on paper, with double-digit RevPAR gains driven almost entirely by rate. But there are 710 hotel projects and 176,000 rooms in the construction pipeline, and what goes up on pricing alone has a very specific way of coming back down.

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Mike Storm 3 min read · Mar 29