The Swiss hotel group announced new hotels in Turkey, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan and Egypt.

Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has announced new hotels in Turkey, Mongolia and Morocco, the takeover of a landmark property in Pakistan and the opening of a new 'hotel within a hotel' in Egypt. "Considered organic growth has become a hallmark of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts and these stunning new projects illustrate this philosophy perfectly," said the company's President and CEO Jean Gabriel Pérès. Those developments will add more than 1 600 rooms to the group's network.

In Pakistan, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has just taken over a five-star landmark hotel in Karachi from Sheraton, the 407-room hotel, now known as the Mövenpick Hotel Karachi.

Already present in Tangier, the group will open two more properties in Morocco. It will take over management of a 184-room hotel in Casablanca, the Mövenpick Hotel Casablanca, and open a third Moroccan property at the end of 2014, the 374-room Mövenpick Hotel Marrakech, currently under construction.

Meanwhile, in the summer of this year, Mövenpick will open its fourth hotel in Turkey, the Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Golden Horn, a contemporary 137-room property.

Mövenpick has also announced it will manage a new hotel in the capital of Mongolia from 2018. The Mövenpick Hotel & Residences Ulaanbaatar with 250 rooms and 124 residences.

Finally, the group has just opened a contemporary new 'hotel within a hotel' at Mövenpick Hotel Cairo Pyramids, only minutes from the famous Pyramid views of Giza plateau.