Alpha Dhabi Holding er åben for at søge flere muligheder inden for hotel- og gæstfrihedssektoren som led i sin indsats for at udvide sin internationale portefølje, har en seniorleder udtalt.
Koncernen, som er en del af Abu Dhabis International Holding Company (IHC), genererede 7,7 mia. dirhams ($2,1 mia.) i omsætning fra sine udenlandske porteføljevirksomheder i de første ni måneder af 2026, hvilket udgør mere end 13 procent af virksomhedens samlede omsætning, ifølge rapporten i denne uge.
“Vi vil forblive centrale i vores investeringsfokus sammen med en disciplineret international ekspansion,” sagde Derek Nicholson, der er chief investment and strategy officer i Alpha Dhabi Holding, til The National på tirsdag.
“Vores hotel- og gæstfrihedsaktiviteter er et område, hvor vi kan vokse internationalt … vi søger muligheder, der bygger på vores kompetencer, og vi er ikke her blot for at udvide af den årsag,” sagde han.
Alpha Dhabi, som forvalter en portefølje på mere end 250 offentlige og private investeringer i 45 lande, har to gæstfriheds-enheder – National Corporation for Tourism and Hotels og ADMO Lifestyle, hvor sidstnævnte har udvidet i Egypten ved at erhverve mærket Nammos.
Satsningen i Egypten er en “model, hvor vi ejer IP’en [intellectual property]”, sagde Nicholson.
Han sagde, at dette var en aktiv portefølje-model til international ekspansion og havde givet koncernen diversificering – “men vi vil fortsætte med at være selektive og fokusere på, hvor vi mener, at vi kan skabe langvarig værdi.”
Alpha Dhabi’s net profit attributable to owners of the company for the nine months that ended on September 30 jumped nearly 41 per cent year-on-year to Dh7.78 billion, as revenue grew 6 per cent to about Dh58.3 billion.
Last week, Alpha Dhabi Holding said it had signed an agreement to commit $1 billion for investments in artificial intelligence companies around the globe, investing through the Alpha Wave Global-managed fund Alpha Wave III.
Mr Nicholson said Alpha Wave III was a “long-term investment theme” that also showed the “quality” of the companies New York-based Alpha Wave Global could source.
Those companies include AI majors OpenAI and Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The venture fund will give Alpha Dhabi indirect exposure to the tech heavyweights.
“When [Alpha Wave Global] approached us with Alpha Wave III, we decided that we wanted to continue our commitment to this sector,” Mr Nicholson said.
“We see multi-trillion dollar investment over the next three to five years, and this is a theme where we think there are still opportunities to find best in class companies that are leaders in the sector.”
In August, Alpha Dhabi, which was established in 2013, doubled its shareholding and capital commitment in its private credit joint venture with the UAE capital’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company.
