The decision is part of the broad plan to sustain
post-pandemic recovery after covid lockdowns tipped the hospitality firm into a
brief but substantial loss in 2020.
“We are expanding to Lagos, Ikoyi Glover and this is going
to be phenomenal, a five-star hotel that offers accommodation, event space,
restaurant, health & fitness, everything,” she said.
The facility is planned as a 300-room hotel towering 20 storeys alongside a 21-storeyed office block, with construction cost estimated at $110 million.
Mrs. Olusola said her company is also innovating to stay
ahead of the competition and is building a 3,500 to 5,000-capacity event centre
in Abuja (the location of its flagship Transcorp Hilton Hotel), due for
delivery in the first quarter of 2024.
Transcorp Hotels counts Texas-based Hilton Hotels &
Resorts as its partner. It launched a hospitality platform, Aura, in July 2021,
enabling users to book to stay in accommodation across thirty states in
Nigeria.
The CEO said there are over 5,000 listings already on the
platform combining hotels and short-let apartments.
Meanwhile, shareholders resolved at the company’s annual
general management held on Monday to sell off its 100 per cent equity stake in
Transcorp Hotels Calabar Limited, which has been racking up losses for at least
the last two years.
The subsidiary recorded over N1 billion in revenue for last
year, the bulk of that eroded by operating costs, leading to a loss after tax
of N269.3 million.
Transcorp Hotels, the hospitality division of Transnational
Corporation of Nigeria, increased profit by more than double in 2022 after
revenue surged by 46.8 per cent to N31.4 billion.
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