Interviews - MarcoPolis

Malaysia’s Tourism Growing at 10% Says a Leading Business Hotel in Kuala Lumpur – DoubleTree by Hilton

June 12, 2015

Malaysia is a very important hub in Asia Pacific. We do a lot of regional conferences and so we have business coming from Singapore and from the major countries within Asia Pacific. We do get quite a lot of business out of China, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand. There is also a lot of international travel and I think that is where Malaysia has been very successful in putting itself on the map for business meetings, events and MICE tourism.

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“Beit Binzagr”: Evolution of Family Business in Saudi Arabia

June 10, 2015

The term we use is “Beit Binzagr” as opposed to Binzagr Group. “Beit Binzagr” is a house, in Jeddah that means a trading house. A number of other merchant families would also refer to themselves as “Beits”.

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Aerospace Industry in Asia: Malaysia to Become Hub for Aerospace OEMs in South East Asia

June 8, 2015

Asia Aerospace City (AAC) aims to make Malaysia the hub for Aerospace OEMs in South East Asia and beyond. It leverages on various engagement strategies with the Aerospace OEMs across the globe. MARA initiated this idea more than a year ago. MARA is a strategic government organisation that champions capability building for the nation through its activities in education, entrepreneur development and investments. MARA produces approx.30% of the overall Malaysian human capital. There is an expanding need for a more diversified supply chain, sustainable human capital and business growth opportunity in Asia by the OEMs.

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SEDCO: Increasing Investments in Saudi Arabia

June 4, 2015

The challenge at FDI, is how to bring foreign direct investments into a country with a troubled neighborhood. But as one of the emerging market powers, the public equity is going to be opened in Saudi Arabia in the middle of this year.

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University of Business and Technology: Saudi Spending $57.9bn on Education in 2015

June 4, 2015

Education has been the governmental priority for some time now, since the days of the late King Abdullah. A lot of resources have been invested in education. I believe this is the right way for the country to develop. The most important thing in the sector is the type of education the country needs. We certainly need more practical and applied education, rather than theoretical education. Now, we need industries, we need doctors and engineers. We need applied, practical and scientific education.

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Private Aviation in Saudi Arabia: 60% of Regional Market, 20% Growth

June 4, 2015

The market contains around 480 aircrafts. It is expected to double to about 1000 in 2020. Saudia Private Aviation has the best knowledge in this field. We built out biggest and largest FBO in Saudi Arabia for private aviation.

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Future of the Saudi Real Estate Market: Insights

June 4, 2015

Right now the real estate market is facing a lot of changes. The Minister of Council has announced that he will charge a fee or levy tariffs on the white lands. This gives rise to a lot of rumors. People are not sure about the future of the real estate market.

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“1 Million Applicants for Housing in Saudi Arabia” says Dar Al Tamleek

June 4, 2015

We don’t have a clear vision of what is going to happen. In order to do product planning you need data and unfortunately accurate data is not available in Saudi. If you want to plan for the next five years you need to know how many houses are going to be built, how many exist, how many are going out of the market, how many permits have been approved etc. all of this data is not currently available or it is available but it’s not accurate.

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Leading Real Estate Consultants in Egypt: New Homes

June 3, 2015

The new concept of New Homes has been in the market since 2008 to serve the developers as a marketing arm and as a consultant to consumers, to assist them in choosing from different developments across the country, especially residential, gated communities, or as we call them, ‘compounds’.

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Tamer Group Discusses Pharmaceutical Industry, Economy and Doing Business

June 2, 2015

In addition, according to Ninth Development Plan by Ministry of Economic & Planning, increasing life expectancy (74 years) which is leading to an ageing population in need for specific and costly health services (> 60 years are growing from 4% to 7% in 2020).