French hotel firm says 20,000 rooms now open in Middle East

French hospitality giant AccorHotels has announced the opening of a new seaside Novotel in Yanbu, the Red Sea port city in the western province of Madinah, Saudi Arabia.

With this latest addition, AccorHotels said it has a total network of more than 20,000 rooms in operation across the Middle East.

Novotel Yanbu is AccorHotels’ second property in the city, following ibis Yanbu, which opened in 2014. Novotel Yanbu is owned by Al Hokair Group and operated under franchise agreement with AccorHotels. It constitutes AccorHotels’ fourth property and second Novotel with its partner Al Hokair Group.

Olivier Granet, managing director and chief operating officer of AccorHotels Middle East, said: “AccorHotels is celebrating the opening of our 20,000th room in the region, and we are pleased to have reached this significant milestone in Saudi Arabia, which holds more than 50 percent of our current pipeline.

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