Two luxury hotels will open in Doha by year end, and two more will open next year. The first two hotels to open are designed to be linked to the City Center building. Five luxury hotels in all are planned – two will be attached to the east side of the shopping mall and the others will be on the west. The planned hotels are the Marriot Courtyard, the Renaissance Hotel, the Doha Shangri-La, the Doha Rotana Hotel, and a new Merweb.
The hotels opening by the end of this year are the Renaissance Hotel, and the Marriot Courtyard. The Renaissance will have 257 rooms and the Marriot Courtyard will have 204 rooms. Marriot Group is also planning to open Marriot Executive Apartments with 123 rooms at about the same time.