Dubai mall developer Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) said it will invest another three billion dirhams ($816.7 million) over the next five years to expand its business in the emirate, seeking to take advantage of a trade and tourism boom at its home base.

MAF, famous for building an indoor ski slope in Dubai, is expanding aggressively in the Middle East and aims to double the size of its business by 2018.

It has been helped by a tourism-led recovery in Dubai's economy since 2011, which benefited from a safe-haven status amid the regional Arab Spring uprising. About 70 percent of MAF's assets are currently based in the United Arab Emirates.

The unlisted firm, which has the sole franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the region, plans to invest more than three billion dirhams on extending its Dubai businesses over the next five years, it said in a statement on Monday.

This includes two new hotel developments, renovating two existing hotels and redeveloping its flagship Mall of the Emirates. It will also open four new Carrefour supermarkets in Dubai.

MAF chief executive Iyad Malas said last week that it plans to invest about $2.3 billion in Egypt in the next few years.

"Future growth in the Middle East and North Africa will be driven by regional large-scale expansion plans for our portfolios in Egypt in addition to new malls envisaged in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Oman, and residential projects in Lebanon," Malas said in the statement.

The unlisted firm said its revenue for 2013 was 23 billion dirhams, up 10 percent year-on-year.

Its earnings before interest, depreciation, taxes and amortization (EBIDTA) from recurring operations grew by 12 percent to reach 3.3 billion dirhams, the company added, without providing full-year net profit figure.

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