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$85m Hotel Planned For Baghdad


 

 

 

www.independent.co.uk A $85 million, five star, 23-storey hotel rising in the city centre; an opulent palace complex being turned into a theme park; cheap flights to the picturesque 'Venice of the East': all the trappings of a country gearing up for a tourist boom.
 
Following decades of privation caused by wars and United Nations sanctions, the country - with its massive oil wealth promised fabulous returns, and its vast array of antiquities, picturesque marshland and miles of golden coast, as well as 102 airports - make tourism look particularly promising.  Now  with a new constitution and elections in the offing, officials insist there is a new beginning.

The  Iraqi tourist board currently has 2,400 staff and 14 offices around the country. There has also been a significant rise in the volume of travellers, with Iraqis either leaving the country or expatriates returning for visits.

And there is also the continuous and steady number of foreigners, mainly contractors, coming in for the huge wages they can now command for working in such a risky environment.

The hotel is very much at an embryonic stage. It is planned to be inside the Green Zone in the centre of the Baghdad. The land has been donated by the Iraqi government, and an Iraqi businessman is providing the finance.

Thair Feeley, the chairman of the Iraqi Commission for Investment (ICI), insists everything is in place.

"It is not true that it will be a five star hotel", he says with a dramatic flourish, "but a seven-and-a-half stars one".

The hotel is intended to have the usual accruements of the top of the price range - plush suites, business centres, conference halls, and a golf range. 

Despite the carnage outside and its somewhat shabby appearance, the Rashid can still charge $150 a night and foreign visitors, apart from a handful from the media, stay inside the Green Zone.

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The Arab Marshland in Iraq

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the city that was created in the sky
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  Issue 33

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  Issue 32

The most famous city of antiquity
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  Issue 31

Irbil
Kurdistan's Most Beautiful City
  Issue 30

With Abraham, the father of the prophets
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The shrine of Zul Kifl
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Forty Days (Arba’in) In Kerbala
Six Million People In A Small City!
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Baghdad
The cradle of tourism imagination
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Archaeological Sites In The Desert Of Karbala

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A neglected tourist treasure
  Issue 25

Al Ukhaider
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  Issue 25

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Kadhimiya
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  Issue 20

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  Issue 20

El-Madain
Tourism in the heart of history
  Issue 20

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  Issue 19

Iraqi Kurdistan
The newest frontier in cultural tourism
  Issue 19

Al-Moustansiriya
The oldest Arab-Islamic university
  Issue 19

Iraq's Marshlands
Eden Again
  Issue 18

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Shrine of a famous sufi leader
  Issue 17

Al-Moutanabbi Street
A unique cultural phenomenon
  Issue 16

Ain Al-Tamr
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  Issue 15

Najaf
The city of knowledge and peace for believers
  Issue 14

Ramadan in Baghdad
The harmony of holiness and tradition
  Issue 14

British School
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  Issue 13

Baratha
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  Issue 13

The Iraqi Museum
Preserving mankind's ancient heritage
  Issue 12

Outreach 2004 -
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  Issue 10

Kerbala:
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  Issue 10

Iraq
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  Issue 9

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  Issue 8

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