Blantyre to have a facelift, 5- star hotel ready
Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre will have a face list with five star hotel which has been completed at Chichiri and set to be opened in April.
Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Salim Bagus visited the international five star hotel at Chichiri on Friday and the team from his ministry was impressed with accommodation rooms and the quality standards.
“This hotel will definately change the face of Blantyre,” he said.
There are also other infrastructure development projects initiated by the President Peter Mutharika administration such as the construction a new stadium and convention centre in Blantyre.
The Mutharika administration is also planning to construct roads that will help ease congestion in Blantyre City, such as the Limbe by-pass road which will see motorists from Bangwe connect to Zomba Road without having to pass through Limbe.
Aside from the Limbe by-pass, Mutharika promised that there will be a construction of Michiru, Chikwawa and Chileka Road that will take motorists straight to the airport, thereby decongesting traffic in Blantyre and along the Chirimba Road.
Mutharika also said the road from Ndirande to Makhetha passing through the foot of Ndirande Mountain will be completed.
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Good development
Start the face lifting by ridding Hailey Selassie Road of vendors.
The hotel shown appears fit for Lunzu.
Tsono Golden peacock hotel ndi mutharika zikugwirizana bwanji
New aa DPP cadet, muthalika this, muthalika that; apo adzapangile chitukuko that will blow the mind of the world there will be great trumpet ever the world has known. I read Dubai news and mega projects and wonderful things are taking place but I have never heard the name of UEA ruler even in a single news. Go t Dubai you will think you have reached heaven, if Dubai is far go to Rwanda or Ghana, si nyansi za corruption mukupanga ku Malawi ayi. The government is failing to bring the real key of development, what you must know is that, it is the people who develop any country, but the government has to bring the key of the development.
Good development but let’s start building vertically and not horizontally. 2020 kumalawi olo sky scrapper ndi imodzi yomwe zero. That’s a sad reality.
Koma ma china nde alowadi.
This is not 5 star.
Kodi kumagona ndani ku ma hotel uku? I mean seriously we have a lot of hotels and it seems they make good profits. Our airports are not that busy. I know that malawians are not in the habit of just leaving their homes to stay at hotels. I however know that civil servants spend more time doing seminars. Is this how these hotels are making money? Just some soul searching…..
Actually, my personal experience (especially of flights to Malawi) has shown that there are a lot of visitors coming to our country and one of the most pressing issues (especially mu Blantyre) is good and affordable accommodation. Just as an example: about a year back, I and three of my work colleagues were in Blantyre for work and our host could not find accommodation for us in all the big hotels in Blantyre: Ryalls, Mount Soche etc. We ended up in a small boutique hotel / motel / bed and breakfast – which I must say was quite good all of us were quite impressed with it.
And added on to that we discovered that our 5 star hotels are sometimes one half times to double the cost as compared to 3 or 4 star (and possibly better) hotels in the Sandton area of Johannesburg, South Africa (where I am currently sitting as I write). The reason for the cost, you will agree, is simply because we do not have many of these good hotels in our country.
And to perhaps add to your idea that most Malawians prefer staying at home instead of going out and perhaps spending a night at a hotel, I could perhaps say that the cost barrier is one of the main issues – if the market could perhaps open up a bit, that is definitely a possibility. But at the moment we basically compete with US dollar-carrying tourists and we will always get priced out of hotel deals.
On the other hand, I am sure you are coming from the idea of saying maybe the developments projects are mostly misaligned with the real issues on the ground. Maybe we indeed should also try to prioritize uplifting the local man on the street, who then can also have money to spend?? It’s sort of a difficult situation that requires some good balancing act.