Dezeen promotion: architects and designers working across the Middle East and Africas are invited to submit their hotel projects to this year's AHEAD MEA awards.
Last year's AHEAD MEA winners ceremony was held at the W Dubai
The Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design (AHEAD) recognises outstanding hotel design from around the world, through a series of heats in four regions: the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa (MEA).
AHEAD MEA will look at hospitality projects from anywhere in the Middle East and Africa that have been opened or reopened between January 2017 and February 2018.
The Four Seasons Dubai International Financial Centre took home the Hotel of the Year award in 2017
Submitted projects will be split into a range of categories: Bar, Club and Lounge; Event Spaces, Guestrooms; Hotel Renovation and Restoration; Landscaping and Outdoor Spaces; Lobby and Public Spaces; Lodges and Tented Camps; Resort Hotel; Restaurant, Spa and Wellness; Suite; Urban Hotel ? Conversion; Urban Hotel ? Newbuild; Visual Identity of the Year; New Concept of the Year, and the AHEAD Hotel of the Year Award. Entries will be judged by a panel of expert hoteliers, architects, interior designers and industry commentators. The team will be headed by Marc Dardenne, chief operating officer of high-end hotel chain Jumeirah Group.
Last year, the Seychelles' Six Senses Zil Paysan resort won in the Landscape and Outdoor Spaces and the Suites categories
Winners will then be annou...