{"id":9172,"date":"2010-06-01T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2010-06-01T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T08:33:08","slug":"cape-town-drowning-in-hotel-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-drowning-in-hotel-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town drowning in hotel beds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cape Town has a surplus of hotel beds, mainly at the 5-star level, and it is expected that there will be a major shake-out in this sector after the completion of the World Cup, and “only the fittest will survive”,\u00a0reports Travel News Now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten\u00a0new hotels have opened their doors in Cape Town since last year, and include the newest, the\u00a0Strand Towers, The Pepper Club, Taj Hotel Cape Town (the international monies have been well-spent on this building)\u00a0,\u00a015 on Orange (which has had money thrown at it by Protea Hotel’s African Pride Hotels), Crystal Towers Hotel, Coral International Cape Town (the first ‘dry’ hotel in the city), One&Only Cape Town (Sol Kerzner is the owner), Cape Royale\u00a0Luxury Hotel, Harbour Bridge Hotel and Suites, and the Upper East Side Hotel.\u00a0 Four further hotels are in the pipeline for the city.<\/p>\n

If the new hotels were the only ones in town, other accommodation establishments would not feel the current accommodation demand decline and room oversupply\u00a0so badly.\u00a0 But a recent statistic shows that Cape Town currently has 84 hotels with 11 584 rooms in total, compared to the national totals of 596 hotels and 65 872 rooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The oversupply of accommodation has led to price-cutting, as the hotels compete to attract declining numbers of visitors to the city.\u00a0\u00a0 On average, it is said that most accommodation establishments in Cape Town are 50 % full for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town has a surplus of hotel beds, mainly at the 5-star level, and it is expected that there will be a major shake-out in this sector after the completion of the World Cup, and “only the fittest will survive”,\u00a0reports Travel News Now. Ten\u00a0new hotels have opened their doors in Cape Town since last year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[7,3,124,21,11],"tags":[5014,2746,32367,5016,5019,32366,5021,1631,5017,5018,5020,5010,27,1094,5015,508,32388,5011,5013,5012,2210,32373,531],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t