Expansion: Serena Hotel inaugurated in Dushanbe

$58million Dushanbe Serena Hotel was inaugurated by Republic of Tajikistan President and His Highness the Aga Khan.

DUSHANBE: The $58million Dushanbe Serena Hotel was inaugurated on Friday by Republic of Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network. Located at the heart of the country’s capital on Rudaki drive, the hotel, which combines contemporary architecture with Tajikistan’s rich traditional cultural heritage, currently employs close to 200 staff, 93% of whom are Tajik and indirectly supports some 300 people. The Aga Khan said that he hoped that the hotel would be “a welcoming haven” for “traders, bankers, developers and business executives, government officials and diplomats, the leaders of civil society, travellers, vacationers, artists and writers, people from many backgrounds and from the farthest reaches of our world”. The Tajik government, Deutsche Investitions- und EntwicklungsgesellschaftmbH (DEG) and the International Finance Corporation partnered with the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development in the construction of the Dushanbe Serena. press release

Published in The Express Tribune, November 5^th,  2011.