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Top Middle East leaders – Talal Jassim Al-Bahar IFA Hotels & Resorts

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Talal Jassim Al-Bahar is best understood not simply as a hotel executive, but as an investor in the environments around hotels. As chairman and group chief executive of IFA Hotels & Resorts, he oversees a business whose interests span hospitality, branded residences, leisure and mixed-use real estate. His leadership reflects a central lesson of resort economics: the most valuable asset is often the destination ecosystem rather than the room inventory alone.