Travelwires.com

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces two new Park Inn hotels: The Park Inn Luxembourg City featuring 99 rooms is scheduled to open in Q4 2010, and the Park Inn Abeokuta in Nigeria with 173 rooms will welcome the first guests in Q4 2010.
“These signings further underline and [...]

Share

British Airways has launched a R29 million initiative to encourage local companies to expand overseas and reinvigorate business travel.
British Airways Business Opportunity Grants will award 50 small-to-medium sized South African companies a year’s worth of business travel. Each of the winners will receive 10 Club World tickets that are valid for a year.
The economic downturn [...]

Share

An incredible  R1,189 957 is the  amount that 10 days of fun raised for local charities and non-profit organisations in Knysna.
Mike Mills, Chairman of the Knysna Tourism Board, said that the Pick n Pay Knysna Oyster Festival has grown into an incredible asset for Knysna. “In addition to the economic impact, the funds raised for [...]

Share

Protea Hotels, Africa’s largest hotel group continued to experience growth in 2009 with the opening of a series of new hotels throughout Africa.
2009 saw Protea Hotels celebrate its 25th anniversary with the group proving its status in the market though 5 recessions, by continuing to be the brand of choice with consumers both locally and [...]

Share

In the spirit of responsible tourism, white-water rafting operators, Swazi Trails have provided a sum of over ZAR 80,000.00 (approx. US$11,000.00) to a rural riverbank community in central Swaziland.
Mphaphati is a impoverished community of over 100 homesteads, whose existence is a fragile mix of subsistence agriculture and remittances from family members working in the distant [...]

Share

The final leg of the USTOA trade workshop will take place on 23 November 2009 at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town.
Top tour operators from the USA, members of the US Tour Operators Association (USTOA), are currently in the country as part of the USTOA “Presidents Cup” golf tournament.  They will also participate in [...]

Share

The Mantis Group is pleased to announce its most recent acquisition to its expanding international portfolio, The Lord Milner , located in the heart of London’s fashionable Belgravia area in Ebury Street.
The 11-bedroom Lord Milner Hotel is named after Lord Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, the controversial German-born British statesman and colonial administrator. Milner, who [...]

Share

Optimism was the main theme during the second day of the Hospitality Investment Conference Africa 2009, as speakers explored future prospects for the continent’s hospitality sector amid the current economic climate. The conference is currently on at the Sandton Sun hotel and ends today.
Speaking during an advisory panel discussion, Dr Auliana Poon, MD of  Tourism [...]

Share

The JSE-listed City Lodge Hotels group has begun developing two new hotels – Road Lodge Southgate and Road Lodge Bloemfontein Airport – taking to eight the number of hotels the group is currently building around the country.
Road Lodge Southgate, adjacent to the Southgate Mall in southern Johannesburg, will have 118 rooms at a total development [...]

Share

African Sun Limited recognised as the fastest growing hospitality group in sub-Saharan Africa, is committed to managing a portfolio of the finest hotels, lodges and resorts in Africa’s prime destinations.  In keeping with this philosophy, this pioneering hotel group has recently acquired the Royal Chundu Zambezi River Lodge, which not only launches their presence into [...]

Share