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JA Resorts & Hotels is celebrating 40-years of operation in the United Arab Emirates this year, having first opened both the JA Hatta Fort Hotel in the Hajar Mountains and JA Beach Hotel at Jebel Ali Beach in 1981.
Some four decades later, the homegrown hospitality group has gone from strength to strength, now featuring ten distinct properties across the UAE and Indian Ocean.
That is in addition to a new youth-focused brand in China and a brand-new property opened in March - JA Enchanted Waterfront Villas Seychelles.
In 1981, the chairman of DUTCO Group of Companies, Ahmed Baker, was in discussions with sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum to build hotels and resorts in key locations in the emirate of Dubai, some of the first leisure hotels in the region.