Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2017

Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2017 76 As the leading hotel management company in the Middle East and Africa, we strongly believe that by doing more to nurture local talent and nationalisation within the hospitality industry, we will grow from strength to strength. Our Gulf Cooperation Council nationalisation programme ‘Duroob’ gives us the drive to recruit nationals and to contribute to the community in which we operate, by developing them, integrating them in the private sector and offering them increased opportunities in the hotel industry. It also supports the initiatives undertaken by the respective governments towards implementing their nationalisation programme. By offering a healthy work environment, best practice training and extensive colleague development, we support each GCC national’s successful career for the future and promise to make it a rewarding one. Supporting Local Communities Duroob Unit 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Number of Duroob programme participants # 147 212 315 432 394 423 Percentage of senior nationals who are managers % 2 2 2 2 2.5 2.1 84.3% of our colleagues in non-GCC countries are recruited from the local country’s workforce We employed 1,915 new colleagues across our new hotels openings in 2016 and 2017.