The Aqaba Movenpick Hotel opened its doors to business. The design of the beachside hotel, which includes 250 rooms and 66 apartments, was carried out by Arabtech-Jardaneh Consulting Engineers and Architects and Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo. The American firm Hirsch Bedner Associates carried out interior design work and the British firm Derek Lovejoy Partnership carried out landscape work. The British firm of Ove Arup and Partners, Consulting Engineers carried out schematic structural designs, and the Saudi Arabian Ben Laden construction company was the project’s main contractor. The 42,000 square meter complex, which cost about 25 million JD (35.25 million $US), is one of a series of hotels in Jordan owned by Zara Investments