Mövenpick expands in sub-Saharan Africa
MÖVENPICK Hotels and Resorts will open three upscale hotels in
Kenya, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire between 2016 and early 2019. The
expansion trail will commence with the opening of the 223-room
Mövenpick Hotel and Residences Nairobi in mid-2016, followed by
the 212-room Mövenpick Hotel Abidjan in early 2018, and the 250-
room Mövenpick Hotel and Conference Centre Abuja in 2019.
AccorHotels bags 43 French hotels
ACCORHOTELS has purchased a portfolio of 43 hotels in France
from Foncière des Régions, amounting to 4 237 rooms, for a total of
€281m (R4,2bn). The deal is scheduled to be finalised in the first
half of next year. The hotels were previously operated under variable
leases by AccorHotels since 2005 and 2007 under the ibis budget,
ibis, Novotel, Mercure, Pullman and Sofitel brands.
New BON Hotel to open in December
BON Hotel Swakopmund in Namibia will open to the public in
December. The 34-room, four-star hotel, which caters for sport
groups and the leisure, corporate and conference markets, is
situated near the Swakopmund CBD, alongside The Dome, a multifunctional,
indoor sports and conference centre that can host up to
2 000 delegates. A maximum of 130 guests can be accommodated
in the hotel’s Dome- and sea-facing rooms and the public areas
comprise a health and wellness centre, gym, sauna and a 25m
heated indoor swimming pool.
