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British Airways has announced its partnership with luxury lifestyle brand, The White Company. The British retailer will supply bedding and amenity kits in Club World as part of the airline’s £400 million ($516 million) customer investment plan. Later this year, customers travelling in Club World between Heathrow and New York JFK will be given a new elegant day cushion which will...

InterContinental Hotels Group has announced the opening of its new Holiday Inn® in Mutare, Zimbabwe. The franchised property, owned by African Sun Limited, features 96 rooms, an outdoor pool and a meeting room capable of seating 250 people. Mutare is in the diamond mining region of Zimbabwe and close to the Tete Province, a coal mining region in Mozambique. The Holiday Inn...

Q: What ‘type’ of business travel do you see coming through Birchwood? A: Birchwood has always been able to accommodate unique and versatile requirements and this has translated in to our Silverbirch offering. Corporate groups have been and always will be the type of business that is frequent at Birchwood. Requests made, however, are becoming less generic and clients are...

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, part of Marriott International, has announced the re-opening of the Sheraton Cairo Hotel & Casino in Egypt. The results of an extensive renovation are modern interiors, refreshed public spaces and innovative dining concepts. The hotel has 326 fully renovated rooms and suites. Sheraton Club rooms offer exclusive access to the Sheraton® Club Lounge, a private space located on...

AccorHotels group, Tsemex Hotels and Business Plc are coming together to finalize the construction of a new 218-room MGallery by Sofitel hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The new MGallery by Sofitel Addis Ababa is estimated to open towards the second half of 2018. It will feature 218 guestrooms and suites, along with large meeting and event space, two restaurants, a swimming...

Around this time each year we look at what the hotel chains are up to in terms of signing deals for new hotels in Africa. We started collecting data back in 2009, and since then the number of deals in the pipelines has more than doubled, with a record 73,000 rooms in 417 hotels as of the beginning of...

Q: What service does the Mauritius Incentive Connection offer? A: MIC is driven by the MICE team of Connections DMC that co-ordinates and operates all MICE programmes. The MIC hotels provide a diversified and complete product, which can accommodate any kind of demand, be it a small luxury board meeting or a 1,000-delegate conference. Another important member of our consortium...

BACKGROUND: Founded in 1995, privately owned and based in Johannesburg, Airlink now connects to 37 destinations in nine different African countries. It also links smaller towns, regional centers and hubs throughout South Africa. From Oliver Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg to Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka, Airlink offers two f lights daily – departing at 06h25 and 18h20...

BACKGROUND: BON Hotels, which owns, operates and manages hotels throughout Africa, added BON Hotel Bloemfontein Central to its South African portfolio. The hotel was rebranded from its Protea affiliation and opened on 1 July 2016. WHERE IS IT? On a busy street in the centre of Bloemfontein. It forms part of the Bloem Plaza shopping centre which provides parking and...

When Lufthansa commenced operations from Frankfurt to Johannesburg on 14 May 1962, it was through a series of intermediary stops in Africa using the Boeing 720B, the industry’s best long-haul aircraft at the time. We are proud to have played a major role in connecting South Africans over the past 55 years, whether for business or leisure, to our...

Launched in the 1990s, the Hilton Garden Inn has since established a proven track record of guest satisfaction that continues to attract a highly loyal customer base in both leisure and business categories to the brand’s hotels in world capitals and regional centres. The promise of award-winning service, inviting social spaces, and high-end amenities ensure a great stay at an...

According to Duma Travel CEO Themba Mthombeni, the South African travel industry is in trouble, and unless it undergoes radical change – or transformation – it is dead in the water. “The economy is not growing as fast as it should and we’re technically in a recession,” he says. “So volumes are dropping, margins are being challenged, costs are rising,...