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Protea plans a 'budget' chain
HOTELS
PROTEA Hotels has joined forces with Southnet, a group specialising in low-cost housing, to build and operate a chain of affordable hotels across the country. The partners plan to open 10 hotels, called Landmark Lodge by Protea Hotels, at a cost of R16.5-million each within the next three years. About 26 hotels should be established over the next 10 years. The first 112-room Landmark Lodge will open in Midrand, between Johannesburg and Pretoria, on August 1, and a second, a 100-room hotel at Tyger Valley, on December 1. Protea's special projects director, Bernard Cassar, says that by applying low-cost housing technology to new hotel developments, costs can be kept to a minimum. "This technology, coupled with Protea's established infrastructure, will allow us to open hotels furnished to 3-star standards with en suite bathrooms and satellite TV at below R200 a night."
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