SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), June 6 (SeeNews) – Saudi Arabia-based development company Al Shiddi Group and AccorHotels will open a hotel of the Swissotel brand in Sarajevo on June 15, Bosnian media reported on Wednesday.
Al Shiddi Group entered into a franchise agreement in April last year with Swissotel, part of French hotel chain AccorHotels, for the development of a new 218-room hotel in Sarajevo.
On June 15, Swissotel Sarajevo will offer 80 rooms and one restaurant, while the remainder of the building will be kept closed until the gala opening of the hiotel in August, news portal Klix.ba reported.
In the first phase the hotel will employ 60 people, while from August the workforce will increase to 120.
The hotel, besides restaurants and conference rooms, will house an indoor pool and a Turkish bath.
The new hotel will be a part of the Al-Shiddi Group's Sarajevo City Centre (SCC).
Al Shiddi Group was founded in 1975 and today it employs more than 1000 people in Europe, Africa and Asia. In Bosnia, it operates SCC which includes a 49 000 sq m shopping mall, an office tower and a hotel.