Golden Tulip Hospitality Group is proud to announce the signing of the management agreement for Royal Tulip Almaty. The construction of the Royal Tulip Almaty is is well underway and is expected to be accomplished first of September 2009.

Royal Tulip Almaty is located in the Central north part of town on the way to Medeo. The Hotel features 166 guestrooms (104 Deluxe rooms, 24 Executive rooms, 16 Junior Suites, 16 Executive Suites, 6 Deluxe Suites), offers a Conference and Banquet Facility up to 400 sit down, an all day Dining, Bar & Lounge Facility, an upscale specialty Restaurant, a Nuances Spa and Wellness Center a Fitness Studio and a sub basement Parking Garage.

Royal Tulip are Upper Upscale hotels, offering the most elegant and high standard facilities with a deluxe level of comfort and personal service. All Royal Tulip hotels are situated in gateway city centers and business districts. A number of additional sophisticated and state of the art technology amenities are offered  at all Royal Tulip hotels.

Golden Tulip has seven Royal Tulip Hotels under contract. Other Royal Tulip Hotels are to be found in: Amsterdam (NL), Eilat (IS), Shanghai (CN), Dubai (UAE), and Oman.

Hans Kennedie, President and CEO of Golden Tulip Hospitality Group comments: “We are very pleased with the addition of this new hotel to our exclusive selection of the Royal Tulip portfolio. Kazakhstan is a prosperous and leading country within the CIS and its hospitality market has major national and international importance. Royal Tulip Almaty marks our entry to this market for which we plan to develop further 8-10 hotels in the coming five years."

Almat Mykhanov, President of “ZHARAT” LLP comments: “We are very glad to have the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group, a highly regarded global player, as our partner for the management of our hotel. We hope that the success of Royal Tulip Almaty will be the beginning of a long term partnership in which our companies can work together towards the expansion of Golden Tulip in Kazakhstan."