{"id":47012,"date":"2018-06-30T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/movenpick-hotels-resorts-rasshiriaet-prisytstvie-v-tynise.html"},"modified":"2018-06-30T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:01:03","slug":"movenpick-hotels-resorts-rasshiriaet-prisytstvie-v-tynise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/movenpick-hotels-resorts-rasshiriaet-prisytstvie-v-tynise","title":{"rendered":"Movenpick Hotels&amp;Resorts Expands Presence in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>M\u00f6venpick Hotels &amp; Resorts has signed an agreement with Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Touristique du Sud to manage the Plaza Sfax &amp; Spa Hotel in Sfax, Tunisia. The hotel is located in the city center, near the Sfax International Fair and 10 km from Sfax-Thina Airport. <!--more-->reports <\/strong><strong>H<\/strong><strong>hotel <\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>anagement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9ff94ea1b5be327b0eb5514d88acb468.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe hotel will launch under the Movenpick Sfax brand this year and will be the Swiss hotel group&#039;s fourth property in Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The upcoming addition to the company&#039;s portfolio in Tunisia will expand our regional reach, establishing the group&#039;s presence in a new location with high growth potential. Sfax is a city with a fascinating history and Mediterranean charm, a growing business hub where high-end hotel offerings are relatively limited and corporate demand is quite strong. Operating a property in the city center will allow us to capitalize on these favorable market conditions,&quot; <strong>said Andrew Langdon, chief development officer at Movenpick Hotels &amp; Resorts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism, foreign tourist arrivals to the country increased by 23.6 percent from January to May of this year, reaching 2.1 million people. The country&#039;s tourism sector is expected to recover this year after several challenging years.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn response, the republic&#039;s hotel sector has also revived. According to a Knight Frank report, 103 hotels representing international brands were operating in Tunisia in 2018. Currently, the country ranks fifth in this category on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>\nIncidentally, experts have noted the upcoming opening of Qatari Diar&#039;s Anantara resort in southwest Tunisia as an example of the growing interest from Middle Eastern investors in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe new resort, which opens next year, will offer guests 93 rooms and villas with pools, various restaurants and bars, conference rooms and business centers, children&#039;s and teen clubs, a health club and the Anantara Spa.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dillip Rajakari, CEO of Minor Hotel Group<\/strong> He stressed that the resort &quot;will help continue to develop luxury tourism&quot; in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/77167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movenpick Hotels &amp; Resorts has signed an agreement with Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Touristique du Sud, under which the group will begin managing the Plaza Sfax &amp; Spa Hotel in the Tunisian city of Sfax. The hotel is located<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}