About

Who We Are

Two Firms. One Table. One Side of It.

Lunara Hospitality is a hotel management company formed as a joint venture between two Saudi firms that have spent decades on opposite sides of the same table — and decided to sit on the same side of it.

One partner knows how places get built. The other knows how they come alive. Most hotel companies have to buy one of those competencies; Lunara was born with both. The result is an operator that thinks like an owner and advises like a partner.

Our Founders

THE BUILDER

Mosa Al Mosa Group (MMG)

Founded in 1993 (1414 AH) by Sheikh Mosa bin Abdulaziz Al Mosa, MMG is a premier Saudi real estate holding group bringing development muscle, land intelligence, construction capability, and multi-generational Saudi capital.

Key Entities:
  • Tilad: In-house construction arm.
  • NOFODH: Asset management & marketing (> SAR 1B).
  • Rawaj: Accredited valuations by Saudi Authority.

“Tomorrow is our today’s vision.”

THE CRAFT

HARTT Consulting Company – Tourism Consulting

Established in 2002 and led by CEO Mohammed Salem AlNashwan, HARTT is a specialist hospitality advisory firm with 24 years of owner-side and operator experience across KSA, the Gulf, and Europe.

Notable Track Record:
  • The Westin Abha Resort & Country Club: owner’s representative for Marriott’s first hotel in Asir — from the first site study to life after opening.
  • Rua Al Madinah (PIF): hospitality advisor — 12 hotels and 7,075 keys and residences in the Al Ijabah zone alone.
  • Shaza Riyadh Stables Resort: owner’s representative for Riyadh’s first country club.
  • Al Saffaniyyah Towers, Jeddah: space programming and feasibility for 574 five-star keys in a 192,255 m² mixed-use complex.
  • King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah: feasibility and operating concept for two hotels.
  • Luxury agreements for W The Palm Dubai.
  • Due diligence on Hôtel de Crillon (Paris) & InterContinental Istanbul.

“Your bridge from local to global.”

A member of Nashwan Hospitality Group, alongside HARTT Hotel Supplies (since 2009) and Nashwan Hotel Brokerage (since 2007).

Collective Experience

Decades of Building, Owning and Advising — Poured Into Lunara

1993
Mosa Al Mosa Group

Saudi real estate development, in-house construction, asset management and accredited valuations.

2002
HARTT Consulting

Feasibility studies, owner representation, operator selection and management-agreement negotiation across Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and Europe.

25 Years
Owner-Side Leadership

Our CEO has sat on the owner’s side of the table as consultant, broker and equity owner — and now as operator.

Lunara is where the developer’s discipline and the advisor’s craft meet the operator’s daily reality.

LEADERSHIP

Mohammed Salem AlNashwan

CEO & Managing Partner

A Cornell-trained hotelier (Master of Management in Hospitality) and holder of the Les Clefs d’Or Golden Keys of Service Excellence, he has spent 25 years on the owner’s side of the table — as consultant, broker, equity owner and now operator.

Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh
Opening Team Executive, Rooms Division — built the team from 2 to 570 staff.
Start-Up Leadership
Dallah Hotels (12 hotels) and Durrat Al Arous.
Owner-Side Oversight
A portfolio of 19 hotels and resorts run by leading international operators.
Owner & Operator
CEO and equity partner of the company that owns The Westin Abha Resort & Country Club.
Accredited Expert
Ministry of Justice (Khibrah) and Ministry of Tourism Expert-tier license.
OUR NAME

Why Lunara?

In this part of the world, the moon has always been more than scenery. It set the calendar, guided travellers across open country, and marked the hours of gathering and rest. It is quiet, constant, and generous with its light.

“Not the loudest presence in the room — the most dependable one.”
OUR VISION

The Region’s Partner of Choice

To be the hotel company the region roots for: Saudi-born, guest-obsessed, and proof that soul and performance belong in the same P&L.

OUR MISSION

Care of a Founder

We create and operate hotels, resorts, and lifestyle places where guests feel genuinely known, teams do the best work of their careers, and owners see their assets managed with the care of a founder — not the distance of a flag.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Five Convictions

01

Guests Before Systems

Standards exist to serve people, never the other way around. When the manual and the moment disagree, we side with the moment.

02

Warmth is a Skill

Saudi hospitality is a living inheritance, not a slogan. We hire for heart and train for craft.

03

Owners Are Partners

We manage every property as if our own capital were in it — because we know exactly what that feels like.

04

Place Makes the Stay

Every Lunara property should taste, sound, and feel like where it is. We’d rather be deeply local than globally identical.

05

Stay Curious

We are entrepreneurs. We prototype, we listen, we improve — and we never confuse being established with being finished.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

"A great hotel is not merely built; it is brought to life through genuine care, seamless performance, and local soul."

Work with us

OWNER-MINDSET OPERATOR

We Think Like Owners

Born from real estate titan MMG and advisory expert HARTT, we manage every property with the care of a founder — protecting asset value while driving operational performance.

LOCAL SOUL, GLOBAL STANDARDS

Deep Saudi Heritage

We combine authentic Saudi hospitality with international operating SOPs and tourism funding access, aligning directly with Saudi Vision 2030 growth.

END-TO-END CAPABILITY

Concept to Performance

From construction oversight and feasibility studies to day-to-day operations and F&B concepts, we handle the full life cycle of hospitality assets.

"Ready to turn your hospitality asset into a high-performing benchmark?"