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 [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – Work on the five-star New Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel being built at the former Race Course in Accra that started in December last year is scheduled to be completed next year. The facility is being built by Zakhem International Limited (ZIL), a US-based construction firm. Mr. Neil Ashurst, Project Manager of ZIL, [...]
Read the rest of this story »Hate the thought of getting into an icy cold hotel bed, and aren’t too fond of electric blankets? One hotel is offering a human bed-warming service! Holiday Inn last week piloted an industry first human bed-warming service at its London Kensington hotel. According to the hotel group, the free five-minute service is “just like having [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – Chances Hotel at Ho and Elmina Beach Resort were on Wednesday night adjudged the best in the hospitality industry for 2009 at the Second Ghana Business and Financial Service Excellence Awards Dinner in Accra. Eusbett Hotel Limited at Sunyani, Mac-Dic Royal Plaza Hotel at Koforidua and Picorna Hotel at Tamale jointly took the [...]
Read the rest of this story »PRNewswire/ — Marriott International today announced the signing of five hotels for its newly established Middle East & Africa Region, including its first properties in Algeria, Ghana and Morocco. The hotels are scheduled to open under long-term management contracts over the next 36 months and represent the company’s Marriott Hotels & Resorts and Marriott Executive [...]
Read the rest of this story »PANA A Zimbabwean hotel group said Wednesday it had acquired a five-star lodge in Zambia, as part of an African expansion drive which has seen it invest in similar business in Ghana, Nigeria and other countries. African Sun Limited spokesperson Farayi Mpofu said the hotel group had bought Royal Chundu Lodge in the resort town [...]
Read the rest of this story »BY ATO KEELSON Coconut Groove Regency Hotel in Accra on Tuesday, September 23, 2009 hosted foreign journalists who are currently in the country to cover this year’s World Tourism Day (WTD). The journalists who were twelve (12) in number were given special invitations to attend a dinner by management of Coconut Groove Regency as [...]
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