THE Oman Travel Mart (OTM) held last month in Muscat at the Oman International Exhibition Centre attracted 45 participants representing more than 70 companies from over eight countries.
Inaugurated by HE Eng. Sultan bin Hamdoon Al Harthi, head of Muscat Municipality, the event featured outbound and inbound tourism, medical tourism as well as property and investment opportunities.
TTN caught up with one of the largest exhibitors, Dhofar Tourism Company and its chief executive officer Osama Marian, who spoke about the Mirbat Beach project. The Dhofar Tourism Company is 51 per cent owned by Omani share holders and 49 per cent by Qatar’s Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment.
“Our Chairman is Sheikh Nawaf bin Jassem Al Thani who is the chairman of Qatar National Hotels’ Company,” he said. Mirbat Beach is an OMR1 billion ($2.58 billion) project situated in Mirbat, 74 kilometres from Salalah in the Dhofar region in the southern part of the Sultanate of Oman. The development covers two million sq m which includes residential, commercial, tourism and entertainment facilities to be completed in five different phases.
Mirbat Beach will feature two luxury five star hotels with 538 keys, 528 furnished apartments and over 1,600 residential units comprising 620 townhouses, 384 village houses, 290 villas, 88 boulevard apartments and 57 exclusive golf course villas. The project will also have a nine hole golf course. The residential units for sale will be 40 per cent available for Omani’s, 15 per cent for other GCC countries and the remaining units for the international market.
