Group CEO of Tune Hotels Mark Lankester (right) and Managing Director of Queensway Group Naushad Jivraj
Travellers to Kenya will have more options of where to stay in Nairobi come 2015. This is in line with international value hotel group Tune Hotels announcing the establishment of a partnership for expansion into the East African region. The group has scheduled a hotel opening in Nairobi June 2015.
While making the announcement, Group CEO of Tune Hotels Mark Lankester said, “To have our very first African hotel here in Nairobi is a significant milestone for Tune Hotels. We are looking forward to providing local travellers as well as tourists and visitors to Kenya and Nairobi a compelling accommodation option that is of international quality, clean, safe and on top of all, affordably priced.â€
Tune Hotel is set to be located in Rhapta road, Westlands and will have 280. The 12-storey hotel will feature a serviced restaurant and a rooftop bar. Other guest facilities include 24-hour security, secure parking spaces and shuttle services to-and-from the airport and popular tourist destinations.
Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group CEO and Executive Chairman respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier Air Asia Group.
From just one hotel in Kuala Lumpur that opened in 2007, Tune Hotels has grown into a current network of 45 Tune Hotels that are available for booking across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, England, Scotland, Australia, India and Japan. The hotel in Westlands will be its first on African soil.