Yemen needs many facilities to host Gulf 20

ADEN, Aug 12 (Saba)- Minister of Tourism Nabil al-Faqeeh disclosed
that Lodging Committee in Gulf 20 Football Championship is demanded
to provide more than 710 five- star rooms, 2000 rooms for media men
and journalists and lodging 20,000 audience in the championship to
be held here on 2010.

Al-Faqeeh, who also chairs the committee, argued owners and in
charge of hotels and lodging facilities to practice their role for
qualifying these facilities according conditions demanded for
hosting the championship, adding that there are a number of new
investment projects, focusing on increasing bed capacity in the
governorate, still under study.


During the inspection visit of al-Faqeeh and Minster of Youth and
Sports Hamoud Obad and Aden Governor Adnan al-Jefry to a number of
tourist and hotel and tourist facilities in Aden, the officials
listened to ongoing works for qualifying Aden Hotel to expand its
bed capacity to reach 186 and inspected services in Mercury Hotel
with bed capacity of 117.

Obad and al-Jefry then inspected the project of constructing Abyan
Coast Complex Hotel that costs $ 5 million. The hotel is composed of
seven flours and contains 176 rooms. They argued concerned officials
to speed up accomplishing the project to utilize it in housing
coming delegations to the championship.