Rezidor Announces Two New Park Inn by Radisson Hotels in Africa
Released on: June 07, 2011, 3:27 pm
Author:
The Rezidor Hotel Group
Industry: Travel
The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel
companies worldwide, announces two new Park Inn by Radisson hotels in
Africa. The Park Inn Polokwane in the South African province Limpopo
will feature 160 rooms and is scheduled to open in Q1 2013. The Park
Inn Nairobi Westlands in Kenya will add 126 rooms to Rezidor's
pipeline and welcome the first guests in Q4 2013.
"Africa is one of our key markets for future business development. This emerging
continent offers huge natural resources, improved infrastructure and increasingly
stable systems. At the same time Africa lacks internationally branded hotel rooms or
shows a dated hotel inventory in many cities", said Kurt Ritter, president & CEO of
Rezidor.
The Park Inn Polokwane is Rezidor's third Park Inn by Radisson hotel in South
Africa; following Sandton and Cape Town. Polokwane ("place of peace") is located
in Limpopo, the country's northernmost province, and is a major economic centre.
Its proximity to the neighbouring countries of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and
Swaziland, as well as a convenient distance from Kruger National Park make it the
ideal regional gateway to South Africa.
The brand new property will be located along the existing Polokwane Golf Course and
across the road from the new Peter Mokaba Sports Stadium. The International Airport
will be 7 km away. Besides 160 modern and comfortable guest rooms, the hotel will
offer a signature RBG grill restaurant, 580 square meters of meeting facilities, a
gym, an outdoor swimming pool, and ample parking.
Kurt Ritter continued: "South Africa offers considerable development opportunities
for our young and dynamic mid-market brand Park Inn by Radisson. We aim to enter all
nine provincial capitals in the future in addition to the larger cities of
Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban."
The Park Inn Nairobi Westlands is Rezidor's first Park Inn by Radisson in Kenya and
also the first in East Africa. It will be located in Woodvale Grove in the popular
commercial and economic Westlands area of Nairobi, 5 km northwest of the city
centre. The local headquarters of the United Nations and several international
businesses are nearby. Nairobi itself is Kenya's capital - a thriving modern city
with 3 million inhabitants and the commercial centre of East Africa. Nairobi is also
nicknamed the "Safari Capital City of the World".
The new hotel will offer 126 rooms, an RBG grill restaurant, a bar & lobby lounge, 2
meeting- and 2 board rooms, a business centre, a gym, and a rooftop swimming pool
and terrace.
"Also East Africa is a very suitable development region for Park Inn by Radisson
with Nairobi as a centre. We will target cities and larger towns which fall within a
two hours flying time north, south, east and west of Nairobi, and develop a regional
network", ended Kurt Ritter.
About The Rezidor Hotel Group:
The Rezidor Hotel Group is one of the fastest growing hotel companies in the world.
The group features a portfolio of more than 400 hotels in operation and under
development with 86,300 rooms in over 60 countries, including a wide range of Manchester airport hotels, hotels in Limavady, hotels in Glasgow
city centre, hotels in
Durham and hotels in
Cardiff.
Rezidor operates the brands Radisson Blu Hotels & Resorts, Park Inn by Radisson and
Country Inns & Suites in Europe, Middle East and Africa, along with the goldpoints
plusSM loyalty programme for frequent hotel guests. Under a worldwide licence
agreement with the iconic Italian fashion house Missoni, Rezidor also operates and
develops the new lifestyle brand Hotel Missoni.
For further information please contact:
Christiane Reiter
Director Corporate Communications
The Rezidor Hotel Group
Avenue Du Bourget 44
B-1130 Brüssel
Belgien
+32 2 702 9331
www.radissonblu.com
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