RAK Investment Pulse – 5th Edition: Operational Ecosystems
Date Posted:Mon, 30th Jun 2025
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This edition addressed the essential gaps in the back-of-house infrastructure, explored Ras Al Khaimah’s future hotel supply, and existing support ecosystems – including food and beverage supply chains, laundry services, talent and staff housing, logistics, OS&E procurement, and much more!
RAK Investment Pulse is a quarterly report by Stirling Hospitality Advisors that delivers expert research and strategic insights into Ras Al Khaimah’s dynamic hospitality and investment landscape. Launched in early 2024, it tracks market trends, emerging opportunities, and key developments to keep investors informed on the Emirate’s rapid growth and transformation.
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Presenter: Tatiana Veller (Managing Director, Stirling Hospitality Advisors)
Keynote Speaker #1: Fabien Chesnais (General Manager of Mövenpick Resort Al Marjan Island)
Keynote Speaker #2: Brent Anderson (Chief Commercial Officer of Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority)
About Stirling Hospitality Advisors
A subsidiary of Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Hospitality Holding, Stirling Hospitality Advisors is one of the leading boutique advisory institutions in the region. Headquartered in RAK, Stirling Hospitality Advisors offers clients a wide range of services, including developing comprehensive tourism destination strategies and activation plans, advisory and asset management. Stirling Hospitality Advisors is responsible for a hotel and resort portfolio valued at over USD 1.25 billion, for clients across various sectors: governments, real estate investment trusts, sovereign wealth funds, banks, family offices and master developers.
Holding a unique position in the industry, Stirling Hospitality Advisors shares the perspective of government, investor, owner, operator, asset manager and consultant, offering its’ clients the long-term trusted relationships and focused expertise, and accompanying each project throughout its’ entire lifecycle. With a proven track record of successful project delivery, it has been instrumental in transforming RAK into a world-renowned touristic destination for active and family tourism.
Stirling Hospitality Advisors’ team of experts has over 150 years of combined hospitality experience, currently asset managing over 3,500 hotel rooms in three countries and has supported clients in over 120 cases of hotel and destination concepts, feasibility studies, market studies, strategies and highest-best use analyses.
Website: https://stirlinghospitality.com/
LinkedIn: https://ae.linkedin.com/company/stirlinghospitalityadvisors