Diverse properties from Premier

PREMIER Hotels & Resorts continues to invest in its national portfolio, boosting its appeal across both leisure and business travel markets and creating greater value for South African travel agents packaging domestic travel. With a footprint that spans key city, coastal, resort and conferencing destinations, Premier Hotels & Resorts is focused on enhancing the full guest journey through practical upgrades, improved service delivery and more relevant travel experiences, Wayne Neath, Commercial Director at Premier Hotels & Resorts tells Travel News. Recent and ongoing developments across the group’s portfolio include continued product enhancements at selected properties, refreshed positioning for the business and leisure segments and the roll-out of new value-led campaign structures designed to make travel simpler, more flexible and rewarding. “Developments across the portfolio are designed to support ease of booking, improved turnaround times, flexible conferencing options and stronger on-property service delivery,” says Neath. Choice For the business travel and MICE market, the group prioritises convenience, connectivity and conferencing capability. Properties such as Premier Hotel OR Tambo, Premier Hotel Umhlanga, Premier Hotel East London, Premier Hotel Midrand, Premier Hotel Pretoria, Premier Hotel Roodevalley and Premier Hotel East London International Convention Centre offer strong solutions for corporate stays, meetings, events and group travel. For leisure travellers, the resort and coastal properties remain central to the group’s domestic leisure strategy. Premier Resort Sani Pass, Premier Resort Cutty Sark, Premier Resort Knysna – The Moorings, Premier Hotel The Winkler, Premier Hotel Regent, Premier Hotel The Richards and Premier Hotel Umhlanga offer agents a range of leisure experiences, from mountain escapes and beach holidays to family breaks, weddings, honeymoons and soft adventure itineraries. Agents can optimise these developments by packaging properties as part of multi- destination journeys, business-and- leisure extensions, conferencing with accommodation, family holidays, group travel and special- interest itineraries. “Whether the client is travelling for business, conferencing, leisure, sport, family travel or a combined bleisure itinerary, our portfolio allows agents to package with confidence,” says Neath. Trade support Premier Hotels & Resorts says it supports the trade through clear rate structures, product updates, sales engagement, training, marketing collateral and tailored solutions for both corporate and leisure clients. “Our focus is on ensuring that Premier Hotels & Resorts remains top of mind for agents looking for reliable, well-located and value- driven accommodation across South Africa.” The group remains committed to working closely with the South African travel trade to deliver dependable accommodation, meaningful experiences and commercially sound travel solutions across the country, says Neath.