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Hilton end operations in Capetown City Centre
Global hotel chain will no longer operate Hilton Cape Town City Centre property from this weekend, as industry continues to struggle.
In another sign of the severe trauma being inflicted on the South African hospitality industry, Hilton Hotels is to relinquish its Hilton Cape Town City Centre property this weekend.
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South Africa: Oyster Box voted best resort hotel in Africa
One of Durban’s most beloved hotels, the Oyster Box, has been awarded the top spot in the ‘Top Resort Hotels in Africa’ category at this year’s Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards.
The awards, voted for by readers of Travel + Leisure, judge hotels on a variety of characteristics including their rooms and facilities, location… read more
Park Inn By Radisson Kigali Hotel to Start Operating Partially
It's now about 100 days since Park Inn by Radisson Hotel Kigali stopped operation to curb the spread of covid 19. This left many workers jobless. However, on Tuesday, July 7, the hotel resumed work partially, only allowing meetings and events to be hosted at their premises in Kiyovu, until further notice.
Bernard Theron, the … read more
African Hotel pipeline resilient despite unprecedented challenges
Acknowledged as one of the African continent’s leading hospitality investment experts, Wayne Troughton of HTI Consulting shared unique insights in the first ‘Virtual Hotel Club’ held in early July, a dynamic and informal Pan-African platform for hospitality industry stakeholders the way forward within the industry at this time of crisis.… read more
Mhondoro Safari Lodge Adds a Family Villa Suite
Mhondoro Safari Lodge has added a Family Villa Suite that can accommodate two adults with two children to increase the capacity of the exclusive-use villa product to a total of 10 guests. Adjacent to the Villa, the new Family Suite has two bedrooms, as well as a living area with a fireplace that leads to a private deck.
Locat… read more
BON Hotels reopen properties in South Africa
After months of lockdown regulations, the South African hospitality industry is ready to slowly open up its doors to business travellers around the country. BON Hotels is proud to announce the reopening of five of its properties in KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Mpumalanga and the opening of four South African hotels new to the BON … read more
Dubai hotel operators anticipate 18-24 months to pre-pandemic profitability levels
Dubai’s real estate market sales are surviving the current economic crisis relatively well, according to a new KPMG report, which analyses the prospects for Dubai’s real estate and hospitality sectors in the wake of COVID-19.
According to the report, Dubai’s real estate sector is facing significant challenges in the current environm… read more
Protea Hotel by Marriott Masa Square opens in Gaborone
Protea Hotels by Marriott, part of Marriott International announced the opening of Protea Hotel by Marriott Masa Square in the buzzing capital of Botswana in Gaborone this week.
The opening marks the expansion of the Protea Hotels by Marriott brand into its tenth African country, and the debut of the brand in Botswana.
The reb… read more
Hotelbeds upgrades Contact Centre
Hotelbeds has announced that is has successfully completed the upgrade of the entire telephony infrastructure that supports its Contact Centre.
The upgrade began late last year and has involved migrating all existing services onto a new cloud-based Salesforce contact centre solution provided by Vonage (previously known as New Voice … read more
MENALAC appoints new Secretary-General
The Board of the Middle East and North Africa Leisure Attractions Council (MENALAC), which represents the Middle East’s growing leisure attractions sector, has appointed Rosa Tahmaseb as its new Secretary-General, effective June 2020.
According to MENALAC, Tahmaseb, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience brings with he… read more
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