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By Renn, E. Offor Organizers of the annual hotel and hospitality conference and exposition, Hotel Managers Conference & Awards (HMCA), have announced that electronics giants LG Electronics have confirmed their participation as Headline Sponsor for the event holding in Lagos on the 13th and 14th July 2024 inside the Grand African Ballroom, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.  Organizers explained that this confirmation means that LG Electronics is Headline Sponsor to HMCA for two years in a row, as they were Headline Sponsor for the conference in 2023 when it was held in Owerri, Imo State. Mr. Olugbenga Omotayo Sunday, CEO Tojum Hospitality/Convener of HMCA, in his reaction to the confirmation asserted that, “This is great news and we are very excited about it as a very welcomed development”. “This is further testament to the values that HMCA offers the hospitality sector and general business community in Nigeria and Africa, especially businesses and companies that ...

By Renn, E. Offor Organizers of the prestigious annual hotel and hospitality industry awards in Nigeria has announced that the nominations portal for the Hotel Managers Awards for 2024 has been thrown open to the general public, travel and tourism professionals  tourism experts to make nominations for the various award categories for deserving hospitality and hotel facilities for this year.  Organizers also revealed that this year's awards have new additions which are the awards of the Hotel of the Year in Nigeria, the Top 10 Hotel General Managers in Nigeria and the Best International Hotel Chain in Nigeria. Hotel Managers Awards 2024 The theme for this year’s Conference and Awards is, “Innovative Strategies: Nurturing Resilience and Excellence in Guest Experience in African Hospitality”. The Conference is set to hold on the 13th & 14th July, 2024 while the Awards would hold on 14th July by 6.30pm, all inside the Grand African Ballroom, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria I...

Renn, E. Offor Organizers of the yearly Hotel Managers Conference & Awards (HMCA) have unveiled speakers and panelists for this year's 6th Hotel Managers Conference & Awards tagged Lagos 2024 with theme, “Innovative Strategies: Nurturing Resilience and Excellence in Guest Experience in African Hospitality”. The Conference is set to hold on the 13th & 14th July, 2024 inside the Grand African Ballroom, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos State, the economic Capital of Nigeria. The speakers for this year, as always, were carefully selected from hospitality industry experts whose impacts continue to shape the hospitality industry in Nigeria and Africa at large. Shedding light into the prime of importance the speakers play in this year’s conference, Mr. Olugbenga Omotayo Sunday, CEO Tojum Hospitality and Chief Convener of the Hotel Managers Conference & Awards explained that the speakers are the ones whose job enable the effective achievement of the ridding t...

By Renn E. Offor The 6th Hotel Managers Conference & Awards, which is a Pan African edition has continued to receive endorsements and partnerships from leading hospitality professionals across Africa with host country Nigeria followed by Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon as several other professionals across the continent  continue to push the event. Hotel Managers Conference & Awards (HMCA) Lagos 2024 has the theme, “Innovative Strategies: Nurturing Resilience and Excellence in Guest Experience in African Hospitality” and is set to hold on the 13th & 14th July, 2024 inside the Grand African Ballroom, Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos State, the economic Capital of Nigeria. Speaking about the growing acceptance of Hotel Managers Conference & Awards by hospitality professionals in Nigeria and the growing recognition and acceptance by hospitality professionals across Africa and beyond, Mr. Olugbenga Omotayo Sunday, the Convener and Managing Director of Tojum Hospi...

Barsa Chair, Fouad Canhye   South Africa’s aviation industry is an active enabler of industry in the region, sustaining 70 000 direct jobs in the country and around 1.1 million indirect jobs.  Barsa Chair, Fouad Canhye, noted this in his opening address to the 10th Anniversary Barsa Conference at the Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg, on March 7 and 8.  Thought leaders and key stakeholders in the Southern African aviation industry turned out in numbers. The delegates were drawn from domestic and international airline operators, air transport regulatory authorities, airport operators, aviation service providers, aviation and tourism associations, tourism marketing agencies, government departments and agencies, and research institutions.    The theme of the conference was ‘Moving Forward: Embracing Accountability for a Better Future’.  Daniel Silke. Source – Barsa Macro-economist Daniel Silke, in his presentation on Charting Economic Progress, gave a vivid picture...

Walk with lions in Kenya’s Maasai Mara 86 kilometres, one big African landscape and many, many predators. Lizzie Pook takes the ultimate walking safari There is something uniquely terrifying about finding fresh lion tracks while walking in the bush. Everything gets very quiet. Each rustle of foliage sends crackles of adrenalin darting throughout your body; each sound carried by the soft breeze makes sweat needle in your armpits, the crook of your elbows, the small of your back. I’m on foot in the Maasai Mara, where I’m spending four days traversing four different conservancies using just my legs as part of Asilia’s new Adventures offering. There are no vehicles. No luxury bush breakfasts. Instead, I’ve been walking for up to seven hours a day in the oven-like African heat, camping alongside riverbeds, in dense tangled forest and, at one point, in marshy swampland filled with boisterously loud toads. My guide is Roelof Schutte – an Afrikaner with icy, wolf-like eyes and the ability to m...

The first phase of the arrangement, which launches on Tuesday (19 March), allows Virgin customers to directly book flights on Kenya Airways’ route between London Heathrow and Nairobi. The codeshare will later be extended to allow Kenya Airways passengers to connect via Heathrow on to Virgin’s services to Caribbean destinations. Juha Jarvinen, Chief Commercial Officer at Virgin Atlantic, said: "As a fellow member of the SkyTeam alliance, we know our customers will enjoy a seamless travel experience, with more opportunities to earn and spend their miles with increased benefits for our SkyPriority members". Virgin Atlantic’s Gold and Silver Flying Club members, as well as Kenya Airways’ Asante Rewards Platinum and Gold members can use SkyPriority services at both Heathrow and Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport, including priority check in, baggage handling and boarding. Julius Thairu, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer at Kenya Airways, called the codeshare with Vi...