The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces two new Park Inn by Radisson hotels in Africa: The Park Inn Polokwane in the South African province Limpopo will feature 160 rooms and is scheduled to open in Q1 2013. The Park Inn Nairobi Westlands in Kenya will add 126 rooms to Rezidor's pipeline and welcome the first guests in Q4 2013.
2010’s FIFA World Cup is history. For South Africa, the event was a resounding success. But what about next year? Is a post-World Cup hangover in store for Africa’s hotel industry? TREVOR WARD of Lagos-based W Hospitality Group looks at the continent’s prospects for 2011 – and likes what he sees.
Hilton Worldwide has expanded its South African footprint with the signing of an agreement for the 137-room Hilton Cape Town. Scheduled to open in April 2011, the hotel is situated in the Cape Town CBD, ideally located for easy access to Table Mountain, Camps Bay, the Cape Town International Convention Centre and the V&A Waterfront.
Announcement was made DEC 1st 2010. An accomplished hotel executive, Bennett will be based in Cape Town and report directly to Alan Leibman, President and Managing Director of Kerzner International. Most recently, Bennett was Managing Director of Red Carnation Hotels South Africa, part of a global group of five star hotels and boutiques. Bennett originally joined Red Carnation Hotels as the General Manager of The Twelve Apostles Hotel in 2004. After just a few months, he was appointed Managing Director of Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve and Retreat, a Relais and Chateaux property in the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. Two years later, after negotiating the purchase of The Oyster Box in Umhlanga, Clive was appointed Managing Director of the Red Carnation Hotel Collection in South Africa, which includes all three of these hotels. Prior to joining Red Carnation Hotels, Clive worked in Europe as the Managing Director of a specialized banqueting production business, and then as General Manager of the Annabelle Hotel in Cyprus.
Kurt Ritter, Rezidor’s President & CEO, has received the Special Recognition Award at Hospitality Investment Conference Africa (HICA). Mmatšatši Marobe, conference organizer and CEO of Tourism Business Council of South Africa, honoured Rezidor’s “pioneering spirit” and ambitious business development in Africa ahead of the international competition. “In 1999, Kurt Ritter had a clear vision and recognized the potential of the African continent. His success speaks for its own”, said Marobe.
It is all about South Africa for The Rezidor Hotel Group this week: Following yesterday's announcement of a new Park Inn hotel for Cape Town, Rezidor today announces the upper upscale Radisson Blu Safari Resort Kruger Park: The new built property featuring 120 rooms is scheduled to welcome the first guests in Q2 2013.
The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide and an international leader on the African hospitality market, continues its dominant roll-out on the African continent with the announcement that the 120-room Park Inn Cape Town Foreshore is scheduled to open in the last quarter of 2011.
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After South Africa's blaze of international publicity during the Soccer World Cup, the largest hotel group in Africa is taking the continent to the premier international corporate travel trade show in the USA. At NBTA 2010, Protea Hotels and African Pride Hotels will be represented by Group Sales Director Charmaine Hardwick, who will be meeting the global travel decision-makers and displaying the Protea Hospitality Group's exciting range of hotels at Booth 441.
Overall, 79% of Managers thought that Average Room Rate would stay the same or increase (57% thought it would increase) and the same number thought that Occupancy levels would stay the same or increase, (39% increase, 40% stay the same). Altogether 84% of respondents think that Total Revenue in their hotels will increase or stay the same (60% increase, 24% the same).
The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa ended 11 July with Spain crowned as the new champion, but which hotel market came out on top? STR Global, the leading provider of market information to the global hotel industry, now provides its daily benchmarking service to hotels in the Rainbow Nation. The results show a picture of mixed performance among the various host cities across South Africa and between match and non-match days.
South Africa will welcome the world when the FIFA World Cup kicks off 11 June 2010. Data from STR Global, the leading provider of market information to the global hotel industry, shows that prior to the start of the tournament and in-line with many other parts of the world, the country’s revenue per available room (RevPAR) has begun to trend upward during 2010.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce the opening of Fairmont Zimbali Resort, an exclusive and elegant 154-room property, located along the sublime eastern coast of South Africa. Fairmont Zimbali Resort joins the Fairmont Zimbali Lodge, a 76-room property set nearby along the beach.
The implementation of these recommended strategies combined with careful and detailed observation of the levels of demand will allow South African hoteliers to achieve the correct balance between price and demand and be best prepared for the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Protea Hotels, the largest and leading hotel group in Africa, has partnered with Alloso Technologies to implement the most advanced hospitality business intelligence platform available, the Portfolio One system.
Is South Africa’s hotel industry ready for next year’s World Cup onslaught? EWAN CAMERON, Managing Director of the Johannesburg-based AFRICAN SUN group shares with us a critical assessment of the pros and cons. 2010 is South Africa’s biggest opportunity to prove to the world just how far its hotel industry and wider tourism offer has moved since the dark days of apartheid ; economic sanctions were removed as recently as 1989. The year Nelson Mandela was released, 1990, South Africa received less than 1 million visitors, in the subsequent years South Africa’s arrivals have grown to over 9.5 million last year, yet still less than Egypt, with almost 12 m, and far behind Italy which boasts 39 million arrivals.
Yes we can! That’s the message of Mmatšatši Marobe, CEO of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA), who shares with us her confidence in South Africa’s capabilities, and her hopes for even greater improvement in the service orientation of the many people who will make a difference in the quality of the experience of visitors to next year’s World Cup.
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces announces the opening of Taj Cape Town. This new luxury hotel in the historic city of Cape Town is a joint venture between Indian Hotels Company Ltd and city centre developers Euro cape, with the investment in the project topping R500 million.
Africa’s richest mile is abuzz. Johannesburg, the provincial capital of Gauteng, has grown accustomed to a certain level of hustle and bustle as it’s solidified itself as South Africa’s financial hub. But with the impending FIFA World Cup set to kick off this June, the fervor is reaching new heights—and local hoteliers are taking notice.
In 1994 South Africa held it first democratic elections with Nelson Mandela elected President. South Africa was alive with possibilities! And so the idea of hosting the Soccer World Cup on African soil was cogitated. Michele de Witt of Horwath’s Cape Town office projects what is going to happen in South Africa’s hotel industry before, during and after the World Cup. Challenges abound, but she is optimistic they will be met with flying colors.