Sandton and Gauteng land five-year bid to host Meetings Africa
Gauteng Province and its Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg have won their bid to host Meetings Africa for the next five years. The venue had previously hosted the event for 12 years. The...
View ArticleHilton launches Africa growth initiative
Hilton has committed a total of $50 million over the next five years towards the Hilton Africa Growth Initiative to support the continued expansion of its Sub-Saharan African portfolio. These funds...
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Marriott International makes Kenya debut
Marriott International today announced its first property in Kenya with the opening of Four Points by Sheraton Nairobi Hurlingham. Owned by Kamcan Properties, the hotel is located in the upmarket...
View ArticleFanCon heads to Cape Town
FanCon, the Cape Town Comic Con, is set to descend on Cape Town’s CTICC. The second annual FanCon focuses on comic books, superheroes, superheroines and villains takes place at the CTICC from 29 April...
View ArticleDurban secures Indaba until 2022
Speaking at the Indaba Travel and Tourism Show’s opening ceremony in South Africa, SA president Jacob Zuma announced that Durban has secured the rights to host the show for the next five years....
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African Utility Week conference and expo reports record year
This year’s African Utility Week conference and expo, which took place at the CTICC in Cape Town from 16-18 May, was another record year for organisers Spintelligent. The 17th edition of the event...
View ArticleAfrica’s hospitality sector resilient in the face of economic headwinds,...
South Africa’s hospitality sector is poised for further growth in the next five years bolstered by inbound travellers, despite a difficult and volatile economic backdrop. Pietro Calicchio, hospitality...
View ArticleSpintelligent reports record performances at its African events
Spintelligent, the multi-AAXO-award-winning Cape Town-based trade exhibition and conference organiser, had a strong first half of 2017 with all of four of its flagship events: African Utility Week,...
View ArticleOut of East Africa: Green Inspirations-DMC joins euromic
Destination marketing consortium euromic has announced Green Inspirations-DMC as its newest member. The agency specialises in Tanzania and Kenya as conference and incentives destinations. Green...
View ArticleReport shows Africa’s international arrivals remain healthy despite Nigerian...
Most airports in Africa’s top 10 are seeing a healthy growth in capacity, which is more international than it is domestic, although Nairobi is seeing a 22% boost in domestic capacity. ForwardKeys...
View ArticleSandton and Gauteng land five-year bid to host Meetings Africa
Gauteng Province and its Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg have won their bid to host Meetings Africa for the next five years. The venue had previously hosted the event for 12 years. The...
View ArticleHilton launches Africa growth initiative
Hilton has committed a total of $50 million over the next five years towards the Hilton Africa Growth Initiative to support the continued expansion of its Sub-Saharan African portfolio. These funds...
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UFI’s 84th annual congress in Johannesburg
UFI has completed its 84th annual congress (1–4 November 2017. Sandton Convention Centre) event for the exhibition industry in Johannesburg, South Africa, and CMW were there to take in the proceedings....
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Clarion Gaming reveals ICE Africa
Clarion Gaming will fast track the development of Gaming Africa, transitioning the 2018 event into the first ICE Africa, which will comprise an exhibition and co-located ICE VOX style conference...
View ArticleWest African resurgence sees hotel boom
West Africa’s economy is expected to rebound in 2017 after two slow years, sparking a boom in hotel construction, it has been reported. Commodity-based economies such as Nigeria are recovering from the...
View ArticleSouth Africa deputy minister flies flag for attracting more business events
South Africa’s deputy minister of tourism, Elizabeth Thabethe (pictured), has announced a “bold and ambitious” delegate-boosting plan as part of a Bidding Support Programme to propel the country’s...
View ArticleSandton and Gauteng land five-year bid to host Meetings Africa
Gauteng Province and its Sandton Convention Centre (SCC) in Johannesburg have won their bid to host Meetings Africa for the next five years. The venue had previously hosted the event for 12 years. The...
View ArticleHilton launches Africa growth initiative
Hilton has committed a total of $50 million over the next five years towards the Hilton Africa Growth Initiative to support the continued expansion of its Sub-Saharan African portfolio. These funds...
View ArticleMENA uplift in hotel occupancy drives profit growth, despite drop in rates
An uplift in room occupancy levels helped drive growth in revenue and profit for hotels in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) in December 2017, according to the latest worldwide poll of full-service...
View ArticleDurban ICC appoints new marketing, sales & events director
The Durban International Convention Centre (Durban ICC) in South Africa has announced, 5 February, the promotion of Scott Langley to the role of marketing, sales and events director. Langley previously...
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