Taj Palace Hotel Dubai, the emirate's newest five-star hotel, residence and spa property, is set to open in the middle of next month.

Juma AI Majid's Engineering and Construction team is currently putting finishing touches to the property.

The Taj Palace Hotel is the first five-star hotel in the UAE to be managed by the Indian Hotels Company (IHC).

Hotel general manager Machiel van der Bruggen said business travellers would find the 'intelligent rooms' of the new hotel a delightful innovation.

IHC is India's largest hotel chain with 8,759 rooms worldwide under the Taj brand.

The Dubai hotel is part of the numerous realty structures built by Juma Majid Construction.

Taj Palace Hotel boasts 159 rooms and suites, 90 furnished apartments, three board rooms and four authentic restaurants (Japanese, Turkish, Indian and Italian).

Each of the Taj rooms will have two telephones with two direct lines and an interactive TV set with Internet connection.

Van der Bruggen said the hotel rooms were fitted with features such as electronic keycard swipe system, interactive TVs where guests can instantly view their room bills, arrange wake-up calls, auto voice messaging, order from room service or make restaurant reservation and a host of other electronic direct access to any areas of hotel service operations - all these in one click of a button.

Despite the growing competition, Van der Bruggen expressed confidence that the Taj, with its 100 years history of excellence in the hospitality industry, can hold its own against its competitors.

'We aim to tackle the competition head on,' said Van der Bruggen, a veteran international hotelier.

'There should not be any question about your product's quality, otherwise you will not survive in such a tough market.'

Van der Bruggen aims to cater to business travellers and visitors from the GCC countries and other countries around the world.

The construction team of Juma AI Majid faces a tough challenge to deliver an excellent product which will soon feature as one of Dubai's interesting landmarks, a spokesman said.