Ahif News
Big guns target AHIF
The Africa Hospitality Investment Forum (AHIF) has revealed an impressive speaker line-up for its 2022 conference. The programme features several government ministers, the Chair of Morocco’s tourism development agency, the Chair & CEO of Royal Air Maroc and a battery of Africa’s most influential hotel industry executives with the firepower to transform destinations.
Egypt and Morocco lead Africa’s hospitality expansion
Morocco and Egypt are the nations building the most new hotel rooms in Africa, according to a new study by Africa Hospitality Investment Forum. Accor and Marriott emerged as the brands with the most hotels planned to open in the continent.
AHIF 2019: Delegates to run alongside world champion Gebrselassie
Delegates at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum will have the chance to go running with the Ethiopian Olympic gold medallist and four-time World Championship title holder, Haile Gebrselassie.
Africa Hotel Investment Forum reveals financial impact on host destinations
An independent assessment by the international tourism advisory expert, Martin Jansen van Vuuren, has quantified the significant economic benefits to host countries of the influential Africa Hotel Investment Forum.
AHIF 2019: Investment into South African hospitality sector set for further disruption
JLL has released its SA Hotel Investment Outlook report for 2019 at the AHIF Cape Town Briefing, forecasting that R1.9 billion will be invested into new hotels in the country this year.
Africa Hotel Investment Forum headed for Ethiopia this September
The Africa Hotel Investment Forum, the premier tourism and hotel investment conference on the continent, attracting many prominent international hotel owners, investors, financiers, management companies and their advisers, will return to the Sheraton Hotel, Addis Ababa in the last week of September.
Africa Hotel Investment Forum headed for Ethiopia
The Africa Hotel Investment Forum will take place from September 23rd-25th at the Sheraton Addis, Ethiopia. Registration is now open to those looking to secure a place at the early bird rate.
Secretary Balala seeks to utilise AHIF springboard
Najib Balala, Kenya cabinet secretary for tourism and wildlife, has said it the country will use Africa’s leading hotel investment forum – AHIF – as a launch pad for innovative tourism investment opportunities.
Marrakech leads African hospitality market in early 2018
Based on figures for the first half of 2018 from STR, Marrakech has emerged as a standout performer among key African cities. Average daily rates in the city increased by 40.7 per cent, to US$195, in the first six months of the year.
Bench Events praises government interest in Kenyan development
When Theresa May, the British prime minister, touched down in Nairobi with a group of business leaders in her wake and keen to talk about championing investment in Africa, she was following in the footsteps of a British company, Bench Events.
Africa Hotel Investment Forum headed for Kenya this October
The Africa Hotel Investment Forum will return to Nairobi on October 2nd-4th. The event is considered premier hotel investment conference in Africa, attracting many prominent international hotel owners, investors, financiers, management companies and their advisers.
Breaking Travel News reports from AHIF 2017
Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole reports from the African Hotel Investment Forum as it returns to Kigali, capital of Rwanda, for the second time.