PRICE WATERHOUSE STUDY SUGGESTS NAIROBI WILL REACH 20.000 HOTEL ROOMS BY 2017
(Posted 15th May 2015)
Over the past months have several articles here made reference to the continued appeal Nairobi has for hotel developers, at both the top level but increasingly also in the three and four star segment.
Global financial consultancy and audit firm PwC has now released a study in Kenya dubbed ‘African Traveller Report’ which suggests that by the year 2017 Nairobi will be able to offer visitors a choice of some 20.000 rooms, compared to some 17.800 rooms available at present.
Next to open will very likely be the 5star Radisson Blu, bringing another 256 rooms and suite to Kenya’s capital city, followed later in the year by two more projects named as Grand Sapphire and Golf View Hotel.
A Hilton Garden Inn, as mentioned here before, is also under construction along the highway to the international airport and the latest from the hotel grapevine in Nairobi has it that a Sheraton Four Point will join the throng soon thereafter, also located close to the international airport.
Best Western is said to be keen to expand their Kenyan portfolio, which present comprises the Best Western Premium in Nairobi and the Best Western Plus in Mombasa and when staying at the Kempinski a few weeks ago did General Manager Manish Nambiar confirm that the owners of the Villa Rosa Kempinski Hotel were advancing their plans with the opening of their own brand of three star hotels names Acacia, the first of which will be in Kenya’s lakeside city of Kisumu.
This of course contrasts sharply with the fortunes of the main tourist resorts at the coast where apart from several major real estate developments no new resorts appear to be in the pipeline, a topic featuring in another upcoming article about the state of the industry, and the available options, along the Kenya coast.
