(AFP) Joseph Krauss - The Movenpick Hotel Ramallah in the West Bank which opened Monday, a locally owned franchise of the Swiss-based chain, is aimed primarily at corporate clients. The $40 million hotel includes 171 rooms and suites, an outdoor pool, fitness center and seven conference rooms. The main restaurant has an Italian chef and a downstairs cigar bar that will serve up 20-year aged whiskeys. A string of chic new bars and restaurants have already turned the town into an easy-going Palestinian approximation of Tel Aviv, the transformation underpinned by the $4 billion in foreign aid the Palestinian Authority has received since 2007.
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