By David Mugabe ALL Kampala hotels are booked up, thanks to the African Union Summit which started yesterday. The boom is comparable to the Commonwealth Heads of State Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in 2007, according to a survey. Some guests had to change hotels from the city outskirts for security reasons. Suicide bombers last Sunday [...]
Read the rest of this story »Guarantees you safe journey STORY: BEATRICE DEDE ASIEDU Over the weekend, Hotel and Tourism Today had the privilege to visit M Plaza Tours, a privately-owned transport company. M Plaza Tours is a transport company that operates from Accra-Kumasi. M Plaza buses are very spacious. The buses have air-conditioners fitted in them with installed television sets [...]
Read the rest of this story »The high demand for big budget hotels in the country has become a source of worry to the country’s tourist promoters. Statistics from the Ghana Tourist Board reveals that the nation presently has only one 5–star hotel consisting of 104 rooms and 150 beds with an occupancy rate of 93 percent on the average. There [...]
Read the rest of this story »STORY: BEATRICE DEDE ASIEDU HANS Hotel—a first class hotel—is one of the most prestigious and beautiful hotels in Ghana. Located in Kpobiman, near Accra, off the Nsawam road, HANS has played host to many guests from within and outside the shores of Ghana. Among those who have enjoyed the comfort and serenity of HANS include [...]
Read the rest of this story »STORY: BEATRICE DEDE ASIEDU Tabron Hotel, located at Abeka Lapaz in Accra, off the new market road, was the point of call for this week’s edition of Hotel and Tourism Today. The hotel is very spacious and comes with modern facilities like self-contain rooms with in-built toilet and bath facilities, fully installed split air conditioners [...]
Read the rest of this story »*Motto: Home Away From Home This week, Hotel and Tourism Today crew stormed Abeka-Lapaz, a suburb of Accra where the team visited Africana Guest House Annex located off the new market road. Africana Guest House Annex is the latest addition to the chain of guest houses and hotels established by Africana in some parts of [...]
Read the rest of this story »About half of hotels, lodges and other accommodation in South Africa will charge premium rates during the World Cup, but the tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said he still believed the pricing was responsible. "Half of all establishments will not be charging a premium at all," van Schalkwyk said in a statement announcing [...]
Read the rest of this story »Hotels in Ghana that want to utilize the power and full potential of the Internet to expand and grow their market share in the global tourism and hospitality sector can do so with a solution provided by a Ghanaian business, ourghana.com. The product known as Online Booking Manager, is a cost-effective multi-lingual system for [...]
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