TUNE’S PLANS FOR KENYA SIGNALS THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST BUDGET HOTEL GROUP
(Posted 04th July 2014)
When Tune Hotels will open their first African property in Nairobi next year it will signal the arrival of the first budget hotel group of global standing in Kenya, as all other global investments in the hospitality sector until now concentrated on the 5 star and 4 star market. All the major hotel chains are either already on site or in the process of establishing hotels in Nairobi, mostly on management contracts while the entire Eastern African region has over the past few years seen an increased interest from the hotel giants, following the discovery of oil and gas in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
From information available will Tune Hotels, which has a large base in the Far East, open a 280 room hotel in the Westlands area of Nairobi, which has in recent years started to rival the Central Business District with many companies having moved offices there. The hotel will reportedly NOT have a swimming pool, meeting facilities, a gym or a Spa and concentrate purely on the room and food business at prices said to be in the US Dollar 100 bracket.
Once the hotel in Nairobi is open has the group plans to expand the brand in the Eastern African region with Dar es Salaam reportedly next on the list, before also seeking expansion into Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
