With three months until Boardwalk Mall’s official opening, the development is comfortably on track to open fully-let, bringing the best shopping, leisure and entertainment South Africa has to offer to Gqeberha.

Lucid Ventures, the R350M Cape Town based Hotel Fund, this week announced the launch of an all new boutique hotel brand Home* Suite Hotels into the South African market.

In a research study commissioned by Tongaat Hulett and conducted by GIW Consulting (Pty) Ltd, director Graham Wood says following an analysis of STR Global's independent metrics of the Umhlanga Hotel market, several interesting conclusions arose.

Falling bookings from SA's traditional international arrivals and local business in the downturn exposed hotel oversupply after the 2010 soccer World Cup.