The Rezidor Hotel Group has been named the ‘Best Hotel Investment of the Year’ at the Africa Investor Tourism Investment Awards ceremony held at the Kruger National Park this week.
The awards honour the best in the African hospitality industry.
“It’s an honour to be recognised and rewarded in the industry,” says Andrew McLachlan, Rezidor Hotel Group’s vice president for Business Development in Africa and Indian Ocean Islands. “We will continue to strive to bring a strong portfolio of contemporary hospitality products to the market in the shape of attractive, high-performing hotels, restaurants and bars become well known across the African continent.”
The awards ceremony recognises achievements of various stakeholders within the tourism industry and it forms part of the Africa Investor Tourism and Infrastructure Investment Summit.
This award comes after last year’s Special Recognition Award presented to Rezidor’s President and CEO, Kurt Ritter, at the Hospitality Investment Conference Africa (HICA) held at Sandton in November, for his role in Rezidor’s African expansion.
The Rezidor Hotel Group is one of the world’s fastest growing hotel companies with the largest development pipeline in sub-Saharan Africa. It has two brands in South Africa, Radisson Blu and Park Inn by Radisson. Rezidor is scheduled to open eight hotels across Africa in 2011. Five Radisson Blu hotels and three Park Inn by Radisson hotels in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia.
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