Interview with a Top Business Boutique Hotel Operator in Nigeria – Fahrenheit Hospitality
“Probably in the next year or two, we should get to saturation point but then short lets and different models of hospitality will then start to come through.”
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“Probably in the next year or two, we should get to saturation point but then short lets and different models of hospitality will then start to come through.”
Hossam H. Al Gendy, General Manager of Holiday Inn — Jeddah Al-Salam
The renovation works will be completed in 2 to 3 years. This hotel is considered to be the second largest hotel in Jeddah, with more than 355 rooms.
“Tourism is a brilliant business. Even with the declining Rand at the moment, it is actually boosting tourism,” notes Richard Lyon, GM of One & Only, the most vibrant resort in the heart of the dynamic Cape Town.
A Western Cape-based, black owned and controlled holding company.
Crowned by Table Mountain in the heart of Africa’s “Mother City” Cape Town’s most vibrant and urbane resort.
Over the past five years Zara Investment Holding opened of one of Jordan’s most beautiful resorts – the Movenpick Resort and Spa Tala Bay in Aqaba. This was a U$80 million project and proved to be a huge success.
Abdullah Saad Al-Mogren, General Manager of Riyadh Palace Hotel
Saudi Arabia is now starting to encourage and support both the leisure and the business tourism by creating a private sector for tourism, with one big commission for tourism, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities.
Ali O. Al-Rakban, CEO of Al Safi, Saudi Arabia
With our 35 years of experience in Saudi in the modern agricultural industry and especially in dairy as well as in poultry, I believe we created a world-class, efficient agricultural project. The biggest challenge is and will be with water consumption. For example, today 96% of the water consumption in the dairy business comes from feeding.
“My passion has always been for the beverage developing new trendy, stylish restaurant concepts. So I started my own company with my partner. We founded OB Hotels & Restaurants. We do boutique hotels more in the line of intimate, individual, experience lifestyles and restaurants. We started that in 2011 and it has just been exciting.”
“The destination Egypt is very beautiful. We have it all. We have sun, sea, desert, nightlife – we have everything. I believe that this kind of diversity is what makes our tourism sector very resilient. I also believe that now we are on the right path politically; we have stability. “