Seven of the top 10 hotels for MICE in MENA are in Dubai, UAE. The rankings come from Cvent, a provider of meetings, events, and hospitality technology, which recently released its annual list of the Top 25 Meeting Hotels in the Middle East and Africa*.
The rankings are based on data gathered through the Cvent Supplier Network (CSN), one of the world's largest and most accurate databases of detailed venue information. Over 260,000 hotels, resorts and special event venues in more than 175 countries can be found in the CSN, which is part of
the Cvent Hospitality Cloud that partners with hotels and venues to help them drive group and corporate travel business.
Cvent’s Top Meeting Hotels lists rank venues based on MICE performance according to various criteria, including total requests for proposals (RFPs) and conversion rate. Top venues are sorted geographically, and rankings are based on each hotel’s MICE performance.
"In the Middle East and Africa, we saw a nearly 20% increase in RFP volume year-over-year and hotels featured on this year’s lists are elevating their MICE strategy through innovative digital marketing and quick and complete online responses to RFPs – which is exactly what event organisers want,” said Chris McAndrews, VP of marketing for Cvent Hospitality Cloud.
"Our Top Meeting Hotels lists are consistently used by event organisers to find great hotels and by hoteliers looking to set themselves apart to increase their property’s MICE revenue.”
The 2019 rankings:
1 JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai
2 InterContinental Dubai - Festival City
3 Grand Hyatt Dubai
4 Conrad Dubai
5 Fairmont Dubai
6 Radisson Blu Hotel Dubai Waterfront
7 Mövenpick Hotel Mansour Eddahbi & Palais des Congrès Marrakech
8 Radisson Blu Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg
9 Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai
10 The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre
List highlights include:
- JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai retained its No. 1 position as Top Meeting Hotel.
- Newcomers to the Top 25 list include: The Meydan Hotel in Dubai, and Jumeirah at Etihad Towers which is in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Marriott, AccorHotels, and IHG are the top three hotel chains represented on the list.
Explore:
View the 2019 Top 25 Meeting Hotels in the Middle East and Africa
Cvent also has a list for the Top 25 Meeting Hotels in Australia
*The list was compiled by analysing meeting and event booking activity
through the CSN. More than US$16 billion and more than 42 million room
nights were sourced through the CSN in 2018. Cvent evaluated hotel properties that generated business
through the Cvent Supplier Network from January 2018 through December
2018. The properties were ranked according to various criteria, including total requests for proposals (RFPs), awarded RFPs, total room nights, awarded room nights, major metropolitan area (MMA) market share, conversion rate, response rate, and the hotel's unique profile visits in the Cvent Supplier Network. The criteria are designed to provide the most accurate reflection of the top meeting hotels in the world.
