Marriott
International Incorporated plans to build about 50 hotels in NIGERIA, South
Africa and Egypt each before 2020, to benefit from a surge of travelers, the
company’s president for the Middle East and Africa, Alex Kyriakidis has
revealed.
Bloomberg
quoted Kyriakidis to have explained that the plan is to add 10,000 hotel rooms
apiece in Africa’s THREE biggest economies, targeting “super growth” based on
their economic potential and tourist attractions.
Speaking
in an interview in Addis Ababa, Kyriakidis said: “We see tremendous growth
opportunities in Egypt.”
“As
NIGERIA’s economy powers on, the demand for hotel rooms is going to be
substantially greater.”
The
Bethesda, Maryland-based company sees the region as
