Long-awaited summer days are finally here! A lot of people do love summer, but eventually end up doing the same old stuff. Invest-Gate helps you choose the most exciting spots to spend your sunny days cheerily. You will find restaurants, beaches, and even nightclubs. From dining, sports activities all the way to nightlife, you will find what you want here!

In an exclusive interview with Invest Gate, CEO of Kerten Hospitality Marloes Knippenberg highlights the need for a shift towards ESG investments, operations and Ecosystems. She shares insights about the rollout of the Group's ESG-focused ethos across all properties, pipeline of developments as well as operations - a strategy that centers around Locality, support for the communities around projects and an embrace of a more sustainable operations mode

Since abruptly the sharpest and fittest will only come out of the current tough wave, Invest-Gate lays out the flow of spillovers from Coronavirus shocks on the hotel sector, attempting to help owners/operators craft ways to steer through today's uncharted territory and buffer potential negative impacts on businesses. 

The saturation of Egypt’s hospitality market with luxury developments at one end and the undersupply in the mid-market at the other have raised a flag for Invest-Gate to explore possible investment opportunities and benefits in midscale hotels, while examining the segment’s potentiality and success factors. Needless to say, given that every business model comes with a slew of challenges, we highlight major obstacles hurdling the model’s development nationwide.

Invest-Gate conducts a one-on-one interview with CEO of Kerten Hospitality Marloes Knippenberg, one of the newest brands that has taken the hospitality industry by storm with its state-of-the-art boutique hotels and international-scale expertise. Knippenberg shares the main drivers behind the company’s decision to tap into the Egyptian hospitality sector, while giving a scoop of its domestic planned investments.

The hospitality sector continued to act as the main supporter of the overall commercial real estate sector, with Cairo’s hotel supply remaining steady and occupancy rates showing positive trends over the course of the first nine months of this year

In the light of the state’s continuous efforts to boost tourism and hospitality sector, many ask if Egypt is nearly back on the world tourism map? Invest-Gate asked Christopher Lund, associate director at Colliers International MENA, and JLL’s Country Head of Egypt Ayman Sami on their outlook – here’s their answer!