Serena Hotels offer Lake Kivu Serena package for Transform Africa Delegates

Serena Hotels offer Lake Kivu Serena package for Transform Africa Delegates
Delegates coming for this month’s Transform Africa Summit will have a chance to cool off from their busy days’ schedules from the conference with a travel offer to the Lake Kivu Serena Hotel.

Serena Hotels are offering an all-round tourism package for the conference visitors by offering shuttle services to and from the Lake Kivu Serena Hotel immediately after conference, where the tourists will have the chance to enjoy the amazing sceneries of the Lake Kivu beach in Gisenyi, Western Province before they leave the country.

Charles Muia, the Serena Hotels Country Manager said they want visitors to get a complete feel of the country during the three-day event scheduled to start on the 19th of this month.

“Tourists will make reservations for the shuttle services to Lake Kivu Serena from our Kigali Serena Hotel front desk and be ready to travel to and from Lake Kivu Serena,” he explained.

This year’s Transform Africa Conference will be the second edition after the inaugural meet in 2013, and is expected to attract more than 2,500 delegates from across the world.

At least 10 African heads of state, leaders of government and heads of international corporations are among the participants expected at the Kigali summit.

Muia was optimistic that the event will further boost Rwanda’s tourism and hospitality sector especially now that they were offering visitors more than conference tourism packages.

Rwanda’s tourism industry generated $304.9 million last year, becoming the country’s largest foreign exchange earner. This was an increase of 4 per cent compared to $293.6 million in 2013. The total number of visitors rose to 1.22 million, compared to 1.12 million visitors in 2013.

The number of business travellers who lodged in the country last year increased by 24 per cent, with the government attributing the development to the new strategy to focus on business travellers as supplement to those that come to the country for leisure.

Muia said Rwanda presents a big potential for all kinds of tourism and said they were working to see they package tourism products to the suitability of tourists.

“Rwanda is very safe, clean and has less traffic which gives it a lot of potential to host all tourists,” he closed.