Prestigious international business school for Marbella

It’s only a matter of days since Marbella Mayor Angeles Muñoz, together with Tourism Councillor José Luis Hernández, visited the Persian Gulf on an institutional tour, the aim of which was to promote overseas investment initiatives in Marbella. And already it seems that the visit is paying off…

According to Málaga daily newspaper Diario Sur, British investors representing Regent’s Business School London (part of Regent’s College London) were in Marbella on 11 October to discuss with the town hall their plans to establish an affiliate centre of academic excellence – complete with its own campus – in Nueva Andalucía.

A joint venture with Nest Investments and Qatar’s World Trade Center, the new business school will be built on a 500,000m2 plot, and will have an initial intake of 100 students, although that number will eventually increase to 500.

Following the Mayor’s trip to Dubai, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Qatar earlier this month, other projects currently on the table are said to include a technological centre, a hotel designed to cater specifically for conference delegates, and a state-of-the-art private clinic – specialising in either ophthalmology or possibly cancer treatments – to be located close to the Hospital Costa del Sol.