The Rezidor Hotel Group, essentially the mostsome of the most dynamic hotel companies worldwide and a member of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, announces the Radisson Blu Hotel Port Harcourt Olympia in Nigeria. The valuables is being developed by Cenpropsaroten Hotel Management Limited; it should feature 206 keys and is scheduled to open in Q1 2016. It brings Rezidor’s Nigerian portfolio to one,100 rooms in operation and under development. At the African continent Rezidor now operates and develops 49 hotels with 11,000 rooms.
“Rezidor has the most important pipeline of rooms under development in sub-Saharan Africa. This signing further strengthens our leading position and underlines the significance Nigeria has for our group”, said Wolfgang M. Neumann, President & CEO at Rezidor.
The new Radisson Blu Hotel, Port Harcourt Olympia complements the prevailing Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, Lagos VI; the up and coming Radisson Blu Hotel, Abuja and the Park Inn by Radissons in Lagos, Apapa and Ikeja, Abeoukuta and Abuja. Nigeria is a key development marketplace for Rezidor – the gang is the primary international operator to supply world-class hotel standards within the three major financial hubs of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
The Radisson Blu hotel site is found within the southern a part of town within the less congested old Government Reserve Area directly opposite the Port Harcourt Club 1928 Golf course with spectacular views over the fairways and greens. Besides 206 guest rooms with Radisson Blu signature services corresponding to free high speed internet access the hotel will offer an all-day dining restaurant, a specialty restaurant & bar, and the most important conference facilities throughout the Niger Delta, with 2,100sqm of conference and meeting space. Additionally there’ll be a gym, spa, outdoor swimming pool, business centre and rooftop bar & terrace.
Port Harcourt is the industrial hub of the Niger Delta and the capital of Rivers State, certainly one of Nigeria’s richest states due its large crude oil and natural gas deposits. It’s home to major oil companies, banking institutions and government agencies. Hotel room supply inside the city has not grown for several years, and the brand new built Radisson Blu business and conference hotel will have the benefit of being the foremost modern internationally branded property within the city.