Month: October 2014
- Africa
Key events at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum in Addis Abeba
The Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) 2014, which took place in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia from 29th Sep. to 1st Oct. has provided the more than 500 participants who gathered from all over Africa from speed networking to in depth discussions on topics that matter to the hotel and tourism industry throughout the continent. Some of these topics included: what’s Africa’s…
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Marriott International pledges to train local staff abroad
Marriott International, which has just become one of the largest hotel groups in the continent after its acquisition of the South African based Protea Hotel Group on April this year, said in its effort to keep the hotel’s global standard, it plans to take local employees abroad for training. Speaking at a press conference on the side of the Africa…
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Athlete Haile Gebreselassie shares experience in hotel investment at the ongoing AHIF
Highlights of the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) 2014, which concludes today, included a breakfast conversation with the Olympic Gold medalist and hotel investor Haile Gebreselassie. Haile discussed what it has taken for him to succeed and why he has chosen to put some of his hard earned money in to the hospitality sector. He will also share his view…
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Worldhotels enters into Sub-Saharan Africa
The international hotel group announces strategic partnership with the Azalaï Hotels Group Worldhotels expands into Africa by joining forces with the Azalaï Hotels Group – the first African private hotel chain in West Africa. As part of the agreement, six Azalaï Hotels in Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali and Guinea-Bissau have joined Worldhotels’ global network of almost 500 hotels worldwide, taking…
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