The Council of State greenlights €203 million hotel project by Abu Dhabi Sheikh in Ermioni

In Ermioni, among olive groves and the bluish waters of the Petrothalassa bays, 1 of the astir ambitious tourism investments the Peloponnese has ever seen is astir to begin, pursuing the greenish airy fixed by the Council of State. The task is called Scarlet Beach.
With a fund exceeding €200 cardinal and a strategical program that blends luxury with sustainability, Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s caller task brings planetary standards to Ermioni, reshaping the region’s tourism landscape.

The luxury edifice volition beryllium built on the Porto Heli – Ermioni nationalist roadworthy (north of the Kranidi bay). The tract is characterized by a bid of tiny coves, northbound of the Petrothalassa islet, into which respective tiny streams flow. It is located 8 kilometers from Ermioni and 9.5 kilometers from Porto Heli.

The concern is funded by a radical associated with the UAE royal family. The committee of Scarlet Beach S.A. is connected to the International Holding Company, the concern limb of the Emirate’s royal family, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE royal family

The Council of State’s Fifth Section, chaired by Vice-President Christos Douchanis and rapporteur Dimitris Pyrgakis, reviewed the draught Presidential Decree and issued Opinion No. 19/2025. The assembly recovered the draught decree lawful but made 11 technical-legal observations.

A Haven of Sustainable Luxury

Scarlet Beach is not conscionable different tourer complex. It is designed arsenic a exemplary of sustainable tourism, intended to harmonize with the situation and beforehand greenish improvement principles.
The task covers an country of 217,518 quadrate meters, with lone 12% onshore coverage, and each operation volition adhere to strict biology standards.

The aged “Ermioni Club” edifice was demolished to marque mode for Scarlet Beach.

At the bosom of the program is simply a five-star hotel with 121 rooms, built to near-zero vigor depletion standards (nZEB), with interior proscription exclusively by electrical vehicles.
The task besides includes 15 luxury residences, 9 of which volition beryllium branded residences and 6 backstage villas.

The edifice volition diagnostic wellness areas, taste venues, a formation club, a spa, gastronomic centers, shops, and sports facilities, with peculiar provisions for accessibility for radical with disabilities (PWD) and families with children.
The maximum gathering tallness is acceptable astatine 10.75 meters for the edifice and 7.5 meters for the residences.
Buildings utilized for dining, recreation, hygiene facilities, sports activities, playgrounds, etc., cannot transcend 3.5 meters successful height.

The tourist-furnished residences indispensable not transcend 40% of the full operation area, meaning 10,440 quadrate meters.
Plants are allowed to beryllium grown connected rooftops beyond the maximum gathering tallness but cannot transcend 65 cm successful height.
The minimum region of buildings from the shoreline is acceptable astatine 50 meters for strictly tourer buildings and 30 meters for residential units wrong the complex.

From the Acropolis to Petrothalassa
“Scarlet Beach” is conscionable 1 section of the sheikh’s broader concern footprint successful Greece.
Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan is nary mean figure—he is the member of the President of the UAE and caput of large economical institutions successful the Arab world.
At conscionable 23 years old, helium founded First Gulf Bank, which aboriginal merged with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi to signifier First Abu Dhabi Bank.
He has been progressive successful Greece for 2 decades.

His archetypal “window” into Greece was the acquisition of a five-story neoclassical gathering successful Athens’ historical center.
This is the astir salient spot successful the historical halfway of Athens—a five-story neoclassical gathering located astatine the country of Dionysiou Areopagitou and Makrygianni streets, straight other the Acropolis, with a breathtaking view.
The spot antecedently belonged to businessman Giannis Tzivelis and was acquired by the sheikh successful 2019 astatine auction for €6.5 million.
Today, the gathering is considered 1 of the astir costly properties successful Athens, with its worth estimated astatine implicit €55 million.

His concern doctrine is not constricted to tourism. Through Olivian Groves, helium manages 28,000 olive trees successful Ermioni and different 6,500 trees successful Messinia, successful a exemplary cultivation task producing integrated other virgin olive oil, escaped of chemicals and respectful of biodiversity.

The merchandise is internationally exported arsenic a premium brand, connecting the sensation of Greek onshore to planetary consumers.
The aged “Ermioni Club” hotel, with its 450 beds, was a Porto Heli landmark for decades.
The sheikh acquired and demolished it, paving the mode for a caller tourism identity.
On that aforesaid land, “Scarlet Beach” volition beryllium developed, afloat aligned with modern aesthetics, biology consciousness, and modern needs.

Greece arsenic a Global Premium Destination
The concern successful Petrothalassa is not an isolated task but portion of a broader imaginativeness for Greece.
The state is nary longer seen simply arsenic a abrogation spot but is becoming a prime for life, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Through strategic, high-quality investments, Sheikh Tahnoun contributes to Greece’s modulation from a destination to a broader prospect.
As noted by the Council of State, Scarlet Beach is considered “a exemplary of mild, sustainable development.”