Year: 2014
- Africa
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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Wyndham Hotel Group grows in Africa with first Hotel in Ethiopia
Wyndham Hotel Group, the world’s largest hotel company with approximately 7,540 hotels and part of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), today announced the signing of a management agreement for the Hotel Group’s first property in Ethiopia, the 136-room Ramada® Addis. Upon opening in the first half of next year, Ramada Addis will offer 128 guest rooms and eight suites, ideally…
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Mangalis Hotels introduces a new brand for Africa
Mangalis Hotels Group, a hospitality group born in Africa three years ago with an objective of developing and managing new brands in the continent, has unveiled its latest economy brand – Yaas Hotels. Senior executives of the Hotel group announced this today at the margins of the ongoing Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) 2014 in Addis Abeba. The group has…
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Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn attends AHIF, forum officially kicks off today
Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia attended this afternoon the opening of Africa Hotel Investment Forum 2014, (AHIV) being held at the Sheraton Addis and declared the forum opened. Speaking to a global audience of the hotel and tourism industry, PM Hailemariam said his government has started to put tansformative and structural adjustment to the tourism and hospitality industry. Emphasizing…
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Hilton Worldwide unveils new Modular Hilton Garden Inn
Hilton Worldwide, one of the leading brands in the global hospitality industry, has unveiled a new modular Hilton Garden Inn building solution for upcoming African Projects. Senior executives of the global brand announced this today where they have gathered to participate in the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) 2014 to be officially opened tomorrow at the Sheraton Addis Ababa. Constructed…
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Jumeirah Group appoints Aboudi Asali to head MEASA Development Team
Jumeirah Group, the global luxury hotel company and a member of Dubai Holding, has appointed Aboudi Asali as Senior Vice President Development for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. Mr. Asali takes up the leadership of the MEASA development team from Cherif Hosny, who left the company in August 2014. A British national, educated in Austria and…
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Wyndham Hotel Group signs first upscale property in Africa
Wyndham Hotel Group, the world’s largest hotel company with approximately 7,540 hotels and part of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), today announced the signing of a management agreement for the first upscale Wyndham Hotels and Resorts® property in Africa, the Wyndham Amboseli Golf Resort and Spa, close to the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. The 290-room resort, complete with an…
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The limits to fighting the Islamic State
By Gareth Evans Canberra- – There is a long history of misconceived and over-reaching foreign military intervention in the Middle East, and it is to be hoped that US President Barack Obama’s decision to wage war against the Islamic State will not prove to be another. No terrorist group more richly deserves to be destroyed outright than these marauding, genocidal…
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Leading UAE pharmaceutical company sponsors Ethiopia Healthcare Summit
Julphar’s investments in Ethiopia help meet local demand on affordable high quality medicines and reduce reliance on imports In a step that reflects the growing importance of the Ethiopian market for its investments, Julphar, the leading UAE global pharmaceutical company, sponsored the inaugural of Ethiopia Healthcare Summit, which kicked off this week in the Addis Abeba, in presence of over…
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Ebola: lessons unlearned
By Carlos Lopes When in March this year Guinean authorities reported the first positive tests for Ebola in the West African region, the news came as a surprise for scientists and were treated passively by most. After all Ebola had killed over a period of thirty years more than two thousand people, since it was first discovered in Yambuku, in…
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