African Sun Scoops Continental Management Award

African Sun Scoops Continental Management Award Hospitality group, African Sun Limited, proved that its success in some of the continent's toughest markets is no fluke when it won the Hospitality Management Team of The Year award at the recently held Africa Investor Tourism Investment Awards.

African Sun's management team has been able to draw on its experience gained from operating in a challenging macro-economic environment in Zimbabwe into its key expansion markets. This is not the first time the company's management team has won an award for its efforts in raising the profile of the hospitality sector. Group Chief Executive Shingi Munyeza has won the Director of The Year in 2008 and was awarded runner up in the same competition in the two years prior by the same institute.

Ms Farayi Mangwende, African Sun's Group Corporate Communications Manager was present to receive the award said, "It's an honour for us to receive this award. Last year we had several high profile guests staying at some of the properties we manage, the most eminent being the Obama's at the Holiday Inn Accra Airport, Ghana. In Nigeria, we had eight FIFA U17 teams electing to stay at the Nike Lake Resort and the Amber Tinapa. This award is a global reaffirmation that Zimbabwe can, and does, produce highly skilled professionals of a world-class calibre."

The awards, held on the 18th of February in Harare, had over fifty nominees in total and six for the category that African Sun won. Hospitality groups that African Sun contended against included Protea Hotels, Hyatt, Legacy Hotels & Resorts, Accor Hospitality Management and Rainbow Tourism Group. The Africa Investor Tourism Awards were created to showcase industry opportunities and achievements of stakeholders in the sector. The Awards were held alongside the Zimbabwe Tourism Investor Summit which attracted over 600 participants which included local business leaders as well as international investors.