Upbeat BTEA Offers Tourism Plot at Bahrain Bay Beach for 12-Year Lease

TDT | Manama
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This initiative is part of BTEA’s efforts to draw new projects and improve leisure offerings in the kingdom.

The Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) is offering up Parcel D of the Bahrain Bay Beach for lease, with hopes of bringing in a company well-versed in running tourism ventures. The successful bidder will be expected to manage the site, put up the needed facilities, and keep the beach running, all as set out in the tender documents. The lease will run for 12 years.

To take part, firms must lodge a BD4,000 bid bond and pay a BD100 entry fee. Bids must be in by 20 April 2025, with the envelopes to be opened the following day. Only firms that meet certain conditions will be in the running.

These include having a valid tourism licence and at least five years’ hands-on experience in running beaches or other tourism-based sites. Any firm whose business falls outside the scope of the project will be excluded.

Leisure
The activity must fall under food and drink, head office operations, or something in that line within tourism and leisure. This move is part of the Authority’s efforts to draw new projects and improve leisure offerings in the kingdom. Bahrain Bay Beach covers over 170,000 square metres and stretches 600 metres along the shore. The land is split into five parcels.

Public Beach
One of them — a 200-metre public beach — makes up just over a quarter of the site and is being developed by the Authority itself. The rest will be home to private beach projects, each with a 100-metre stretch of waterfront. There is also space set aside for service buildings and 425 public parking bays.