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The Skylight Hotel spent USD 36 million on the project with the goal of serving 25 million people per year. The hotel is situated in Bole Road, Bole district in Addis Ababa [1] [2] In 2023, it opened a 651-room expansion costing $155 million, bringing the room total to 1,024 and making the hotel the largest in Africa. [3]
Hilton Addis (Amharic: ሂልተን አዲስ) is a private international hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia owned by Hilton Worldwide.It was opened during the Emperor Haile Selassie regime in 1969, after a 50-year management contract signed between the Hilton Worldwide and the Ethiopian government that would proscribe other branding outside Worldwide permission.
The luxury hotels division (previously known as Société du Louvre) can trace its origins to a company founded on 26 March 1855 to operate Les Galeries du Louvre, later Grands Magasins du Louvre, a department store and the Grand Hôtel du Louvre. These shared a large building on the Place du Palais Royal in Paris, France.
On 10 August 2023, the Ethiopian government launched crackdowns on venues in the hospitality industry, such as hotels, bars, restaurants and pubs in Addis Ababa for alleged homosexual activities. In an Addis Ababa Peace and Security Administration Bureau statement, the operation is discreet from the public, guest houses have been raided and ...
As a result most tourists fly over Ethiopia to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa to name a few countries. Nevertheless the Ministry puts out regular press releases every year claiming 800-950,000+ tourist have visited Ethiopia every year, [6] [7] [8] despite Ethiopia having only about 3000 hotel rooms, and of that only 2000 are tourist ...
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The Itegue Taitu Hotel is a hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Taitu Hotel was built in 1905 or 1906 (1898 in the Ethiopian calendar) in the middle of the city (Piazza), is the first hotel in Ethiopia. Taitu Betul (1851–1918), an Ethiopian Empress and the wife of Emperor Menelik II, established this hotel to provide foreign guests a place to ...
The Sheraton Addis is the only hotel in Ethiopia to have a water treatment plant using an ultra-violet water sterilization system, which ensures sterilization and bacteria free purification of water. It has a number of generators, meaning that the hotel is never affected by the power cuts and load shedding that plague Addis Ababa. [2]