{"id":588703,"date":"2023-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/06\/15\/the-qataris-are-looking-at-our-hotels-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T00:00:00","slug":"the-qataris-are-looking-at-our-hotels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/06\/15\/the-qataris-are-looking-at-our-hotels-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Qataris are looking at our hotels -report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Qatar could be looking to invest in Egypt\u2019s hospitality sector: <\/span><span style=\"\">The Q<\/span><span>atar <\/span><span>Investment Authority (QIA) is considering acquiring a minority stake in seven hotels in Egypt, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/qatar-talks-with-egypts-wealth-fund-over-hotels-investment-sources-2023-06-14\/\" style=\"\">Reuters<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> reports, citing two people it says have knowledge of the matter. The Qatari sovereign wealth fund is in negotiations with the Sovereign Fund of Egypt (SFE) and is looking to acquire up to 30% of the hotels, the people said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The seven hotels are: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">The Cairo Marriott Hotel, Steigenberger El Tahrir in Cairo, Marriott Mena House at the Giza pyramids, Sofitel Legend Old Cataract in Aswan, M\u00f6venpick Aswan, Sofitel Winter Palace in Luxor, and Steigenberger Cecil Alexandria, according to Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">That sounds a lot like the new hotels holding company that\u2019s up for grabs: <\/span><span>The government earlier this year <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/051ef98d-f02c-4385-b352-ad61ef059e01\" style=\"\">bundled seven of its five-star properties<\/a><\/span><span> nationwide into one firm that will offer shares as part of the Madbouly government\u2019s privatization program. The full list of hotels is yet to be disclosed, though the head of the government\u2019s Holding Company for Tourism and Hotels (HOTAC) has said that the Cairo Marriott and Marriott Mena House are included. A government source told us <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/35d181ed-a21c-4edf-8223-780c9b4ee714\" style=\"\">earlier this year<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> that most of the interest in the sale was coming from Gulf funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">A bigger sale than initially planned? <\/span><span>Public Enterprises Minister Mahmoud Esmat in February said the government would <\/span><span>offer a 20% stake in the new holding company<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> to a strategic investor followed by a 5% offering on the bourse.  We expect the state to execute the transaction with the strategic via a capital increase in order to raise funds to deploy as part of a growth and turnaround plan. The company is currently joint-owned by HOTAC and the Egyptian General Company for Tourism and Hotels (EGOTH)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">These aren\u2019t the only assets the QIA has shown interest in: <\/span><span>The QIA is reportedly <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/b83dae33-29b8-48bd-bc02-8eb0fe9735d4\" style=\"\">close to<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/b83dae33-29b8-48bd-bc02-8eb0fe9735d4\" style=\"\">acquiring a 25-30%<\/a><\/span><span> stake in Vodafone Egypt from Telecom Egypt, and earlier this year reportedly <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/8d2b9979-bfbb-4862-9963-dbd2fcdc388a\" style=\"\">submitted an offer<\/a><\/span><span> to take majority stakes in the Damietta and Port Said container terminal operators, though talks are said to have <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/971f1157-db03-4f3d-8d5a-9d21e932c322\" style=\"\">stalled<\/a><\/span><span> over the size of the stake on offer. A go<\/span><span>vernment source <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/0748865c-a1f2-4e17-bb96-e3622cf576a9\" style=\"\">told us last week<\/a><\/span><span> that agreements with the fund on Vodafone Egypt, ports, an<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">d oil sector firms could be announced before Agust. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">REMEMBER-<\/span><span> Qatar pledged <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/c734fc23-c0c0-4322-bf5d-ce3c400e707a\" style=\"\">last year<\/a><\/span><span> to invest as much as USD 5 bn in Egypt under Gulf <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">efforts to support the economy, which is suffering a prolonged FX shortage due to the war in Ukraine and rising global rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\">FROM THE RUMOR MILL-<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">EIPICO denies receiving an acquisition offer: <\/span><span style=\"\">The EGX-listed Egyptian International Pharma <\/span><span>Industries (EIPICO) has denied knowledge of <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altreeq.com\/416792\" style=\"\">a media report<\/a><\/span><span> out Monday that claimed Saudi investors were interested in acquiring a 75% stake in the company, citing informed sources. In <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/6\/719.pdf\" style=\"\">an EGX disclosure (pdf)<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> filed yesterday, the state-owned pharma company said that it has not received any acquisition offers as of yet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">EIPICO already has Saudi shareholders: <\/span><span style=\"\">Saudi wealth fund PIF acquired a 4.7% stake in <\/span><span>EIPICO <\/span><span>last year and local media has previously reported that <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/26a54121-e223-448a-ad92-6a04d886fd8d\" style=\"\">the Saudi sovereign fund<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> intends to up its stake in the drugmaker.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fund is in talks with the Sovereign Fund of Egypt to acquire up to 30% of the hotels, according to sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7321],"tags":[7312,487,72,955,7128,427,81,370,238],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-588703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privatization-watch","tag-egypt-qatar-relations","tag-eipico","tag-enterpriseam","tag-hospitality","tag-ma-watch","tag-pharma","tag-privatization-watch","tag-sovereign-fund-of-egypt","tag-tourism","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"cadf8e4c-3049-4bc2-a920-69e9df8fbf1e","order":"0","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/6\/741.jpg","photo_position":"below","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Qatar wealth fund QIA in talks to acquire stake in 7 Egyptian hotels -report","related_issue":[588698],"teaser":"The fund is in talks with the Sovereign Fund of Egypt to acquire up to 30% of the hotels, according to sources","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/6\/.966b8f86-8750-4779-81f9-2dc8ec008906.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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