. When was Rotana Hotels & Resorts founded? How many hotels and tourist facilities owned and operated by Rotana in UAE?
Rotana Hotel Management Corporation (Rotana) was founded in 1992, by a partnership between two visionary thinkers, Nasser Al Nowais and Selim El Zyr. Operating as Rotana, it opened its first property, the Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi in 1993 and is today one of the leading hotel management companies within the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe. Rotana's aggressive expansion plans are seeing the company grow from 2 properties in 1993 to a total of 100 by 2020.