An Eye on West Africa
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An Eye on West Africa
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An eye on West Africa
Last month I wrote about the brands with new hotels planned in West Africa. Since then I have been looking at the existing hotels...
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Eye on West Africa
I have to say that getting new hotels open in Africa is so frustrating. I looked back at an article I wrote for Business Traveller Africa last year, welcoming the forthcoming opening of such hotels as the Noom in Conakry, Marriott in Accra, Four Points in Ikot (Nigeria), the Ramada Plaza in Lagos, the Kempinski in Accra and others.