Tourism gets a boost as players showcase their skills at Jabal Akhdar padel court
With an aim to promote tourism along with sport, the tournament gathered tennis connoisseurs and curious visitors.
While talking about the tournament preparation, Jagdeep Thakral, General Manager at dusitD2 Naseem, said:
'Our hotel's vision is to become an integrated resort. Earlier, we were projected as a family resort but as we started hosting corporate meetings and school groups, we are positioning ourselves as an integrated tourism resort.'
The General Manger said that our integrated complex idea is built on 5 or 6 pillars.
'The first pillar is adventure for which we have built an adventure park, mountain biking, ski, and scooters. All related to adventure. Our second pillar is sport for which we have created facilities that no other hotel here has. We have a padel court, volleyball court. And the third pillar is culture.
'We have an Arabic restaurant with Zarb food and added Arabic band to boost the cultural aspect. It's a treat listening to the Arabic song with oudh and sumptuous Arabic platter. We are also adding Tanoura dance to entertain guests. And conserving nature by reducing carbon emission is also on our agenda.'
For the green initiative, he said that we have planted 400-500 plants of roses, 200 olive trees and many more.'
'Our plan is to create a bed of flowers so that people can come and watch the amazing landscape. Our last pillar is shopping and lifestyle. For which we are trying to build a souq so that everything comes under one roof. Nobody in the mountain will give you this composite thing. The padel tournament is an extension of this vision.
Once this integrated complex is ready, our resort will become people's first choice,' the General Manager added.
'We are planning a series of adventure sports activities. The first will be a mountain man challenge. Next will be the mountain man celebrity challenge, mountain man hotel challenge and next month we are planning mountain man Jabal Akhdar challenge. We will start promoting the two set padel soon. By doing this, we are trying to build every activity under our pillar vision. In the coming years, we are going to have the best team and best facilities in the mountains.'
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