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Number of Hotel Rooms Set to Rise BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 8 Legendary Pakistan batsman Hanif INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2, 20 COMMENT 18, 19 IEA sees oil market ARAB WORLD BUSINESS Mohamed 3, 4 1-12 rebalancing despite 18,613.52 10,953.31 43.37 INTERNATIONAL 5-16 CLASSIFIED 9 +117.86 -41.10 +1.66 ISLAM 17 SPORT 1-8 record Gulf output dies +0.64% -0.37% +3.98% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 FRIDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10178 August 12, 2016 Dhul-Qa’da 9, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar draw with Tunisia In brief Number REGION | Justice of hotel Saudi puts 14 on trial over deadly crane crash Trial has begun for 14 people in connection to a crane collapse in Saudi Arabia last year that killed 110 people and injured more than 200 rooms set at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, local newspapers reported yesterday. The defendants face charges of negligence, damaging public and private properties, and violating safety rules, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported. The trial, to rise which is taking place in Jeddah, began on Wednesday but was only made By Joey Aguilar four-star segment in 2015. Across the public yesterday. The case is related Qatar Olympic Committee president HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani (second from right), secretary-general Dr Thani Staff Reporter entire hotel segment, average room to the fall of a 1,350-tonne crane amid Abdulrahman al-Kuwari (third from right) and Qatar Handball Association president Ahmed Mohamed al-Shaabi attend Qatar’s rates (ARR) fell by 5.7% year-on-year fierce winds in September 2015. handball match against Tunisia at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. The match ended in a 25-25 draw. while revenue per available room See sport pages 1-6 for more on Olympics. he number of hospitality options (RevPAR) dropped by 8.8%. in Qatar is set to increase further Five-star hotels and deluxe hotel REGION | Weather Tas 20 new properties are due apartments raised ARRs by 3.8% but Kuwait’s temperature to open this year, the Oxford Business earned 2.6% less in RevPARs as occu- Group (OBG) has said. pancy dropped by four points last year. to break 50C mark With this, some 4,000 rooms will be The recently-issued tourism per- Kuwait will reach a high temperature added to the local market, OBG has ob- formance summary of QTA revealed a of over 50C by the end of the France ‘concerned’ by Syria served in its 2016 report. drop in occupancy levels in the fi rst half week, according to the off icial at “As Qatar prepares to host major of 2016 compared to the same period Directorate General of Civil Aviation events, such as the 2022 FIFA World last year. An average of 64% occupancy (DGCA). Kuwaiti news agency Cup, room supply is on track to more was recorded across all hotels and hotel KUNA reported yesterday that the chemical attack reports than double with 56 hotels and 13 ho- apartments in the country in the fi rst maximum temperature will be tel apartment buildings planned for the six months of 2016. between 48 and 51C with light to next fi ve years, bringing an additional “The drop was generated in part by a moderate northwesterly winds with AFP to verify such reports but that “there arms stockpile had been completely estimated 26,650 rooms,” the report 10% net increase in the number of avail- a speed of 12 to 32 kilometres per Paris is a lot of evidence that it actually did destroyed. pointed out. “Of these, 20 properties able rooms, as four new properties have hour, and a minimum temperature take place”. But concerns remain that unde- are due to open in 2016, increasing opened their doors since the end of June of 33 to 36C. Tomorrows’s maximum “If it did take place, it is a war crime clared amounts of sarin gas and other room supply by 4,000.” 2015,” QTA had said in a press statement. temperature could reach up to 53C. rance yesterday expressed alarm and as such it would require everyone chemical weapons are still being used. The rise in hotel stock this year will QTA fi nds the occupancy rate across at reports of a deadly chemical to address it immediately,” he added. Last week, the defence ministry of mark a continuation of the trend seen all hotels steady over the past two years Fattack Wednesday in the Syrian In the past two years there have Russia, a staunch ally of Assad, ac- in 2015, when supply increased by 5,000 despite the increasing number of prop- ASEAN | Explosions battleground city of Aleppo. been numerous allegations of chemi- cused rebels in Aleppo of killing seven to reach over 20,700 rooms with the erties in the hospitality sector. Bombs in Thai resort Foreign Minister Jean-Marc cal weapons being used against civil- people in an attack using a “poisonous opening of some 20 new properties in “We recognise that the number of Ayrault said in a statement he was ians, both by President Bashar al-As- agent”. the country, the report observed, citing visitors will peak during the 2022 FIFA kill one, injure nine “concerned by reports of a new sad’s regime and the rebels trying to The Russian claim came on the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) records. World Cup in Qatar, and our strategy Two bombs exploded in the Thai chemical attack that is said to have oust him. heels of reports that two dozen people There was an increase of around 30% aims to deliver everything needed for a seaside resort of Hua Hin yesterday, claimed four lives and left dozens The United Nations and the Organi- had suff ered breathing diffi culties in last year compared to 2014, OBG said. successful World Cup while safeguard- killing one woman and injuring injured.” sation for the Prohibition of Chemical the rebel-held town of Saraqeb, after However, the rising stock and grow- ing all the local and foreign investors 10 people, Thai police said. The He added: “I strongly condemn all Weapons (OPCW) are due to report a barrel bomb attack there that resi- ing competition saw the occupancy by ensuring that they only build what explosions happened ahead of a attacks on the civilian population, later this month on their investigation dents claimed used chlorine gas. rate decrease from 73.1% in 2014 to can be sustained overtime,” QTA’s chief public holiday today to mark the particularly those in which chemical into nine chemical weapons attacks in Ayrault laid the blame for the fi ve- 70.7% in 2015. “Hotel performance in tourism development offi cer Hassan birthday of Queen Sirikit. Hua Hin weapons are used.” 2014 and 2015. year war that has cost nearly 300,000 2015 showed prices, earnings and oc- Adbdulrahman al-Ibrahim said in an is a popular upscale Thai resort Asked about the reported attack Ayrault said he would be “particu- lives on “the cynical attitude of the cupancy all down for the year as new interview with OBG. south of Bangkok and many yesterday during a news conference in larly attentive” to their fi ndings. (Assad) regime and its supporters who stock came online and competition He noted that they were planning to people will have gone there for Geneva, the UN envoy to Syria, Staff an In January, the OPCW announced are preventing any political solution in tightened,” the report said. use cruise ships as temporary accom- the holiday weekend. The second de Mistura, said it was not in his remit that all of Syria’s declared chemical Syria.” Page 4 Meanwhile, OBG noted a 0.7-point modation that would add to the current bomb exploded near a bar at about rise (to 76.5%) in occupancy in the stock of hotel rooms. 10:20pm (1320 GMT), killing a Thai woman and injuring eight foreigners and one other Thai person, the local deputy police chief said. Erdogan approval rating soars Paris slams Israeli demolition EUROPE | Tensions Ukraine puts troops AFP rise of 21 points over the previous poll ing his third term as prime minister, of French-funded buildings Ankara in late June, Ankara-based Metropoll Metropoll said. on combat alert research company said. In August 2014, Erdogan was elect- Ukrainian President Petro The failed grab for power by part of ed president with 52% of the vote. Reuters stallations in Nebi Samuel last week, Poroshenko has ordered the military urkish President Recep Tayy- the military on July 15 has unleashed a His opinion polls since that election Paris was the third time this year that build- to be on combat alert on the de ip Erdogan’s approval rating surge in national unity, of which Er- had, until now, been less than 50%. ings funded by French humanitarian facto border with Crimea and in the Tsoared by over 20 percentage dogan has been the benefi ciary. Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet aid had been demolished or confi scated country’s two easternmost regions points after last month’s failed coup, All opposition parties denounced Simsek said the rating surge showed rance yesterday condemned by Israeli authorities, a foreign minis- amid tensions with Russia. “I have reaching the highest level since his the putsch, and many of the public are “strong public support for his han- the Israeli army’s demolition try spokesman said. ordered all forces in the regions election two years ago, a poll said yes- tired of the coups which have dogged dling of the coup attempt” on his of- Fof French-funded buildings in Among them, in February, was a of the administrative cordon with terday.
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