Melia Hotels International has appointed Nihad Kattan to the position of regional director of operations Middle East and Africa. Kattan has been appointed to oversee operations across the brand’s set of Middle East hotels, including Meliá Dubai, Meliá Doha and the upcoming ME Dubai and Innside Doha properties in the GCC. Jordanian Kattan has over 30 years of international hotel management experience for five-star deluxe, multi-location and multi-unit hotels and resorts. He most recently worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the general manager of the Fairmont Riyadh Hotel. Kattan will work closely with Ahmad Shaban-Fernandez who was appointed as the area director of sales and marketing, Middle East & Africa in October 2016.