Exclusive video: Tracing the journey of Dubai’s JA Resorts with Dutco chairman Ahmed Baker

Dubai-based JA Resorts Resorts and Hotels, part of the Dutco conglomerate, has now become an international hospitality brand with eight properties across the UAE and Maldives.

Since the opening of the first hotel in 1981, the company has remained a family business at heart in the way it operates and interacts with its staff, says Dutco chairman Ahmed Baker, the recipient of Whats On‘s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.

In this exclusive interview with Motivate Media Group’s Ian Fairservice, Baker describes the journey of the brand, from how the location for the first Jebel Ali Hotel was chosen by Dubai’s then Ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, to how JA is now looking to the future.