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Qatar: The K108 hotel, which has recently opened in Doha’s Al Ghanim neighborhood, donates all its profits to charity and other important causes.
The hotel gets its name from its 108 rooms and suites, which cost guests $108 per room per night. Rooms contain 32-inch flatscreen TVs, laptop-size safes, minibars with “convenience store” prices and free wifi.
It is also home to Yum Yum restaurant, where French-Candian chef Hugo Coudurier creates market cuisine which combines “international flair with a touch of France”.
The hotel’s owner, HE Yousuf Kamal is Qatar‘s minister of economy and finance, and also owns the charitable Kamal Foundation.
General manager Tommie Liem said: “The hotel is a homage to the late father of its owner, HE Yousuf Hussein Kamal, who inherited the land where the hotel is situated. That’s where the K comes from. The profits the hotel earns are given to individually tailored charity cases, with decisions made on a case-to-case basis. It is a unique hotel. The main focus is schools and underprivileged children in other countries. The team who manage the funds and projects also assess case-by-case applications to support needy people here in Qatar with things like social emergencies and medical costs.”
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