Building in Kampala, Uganda
The Kampala Serena Hotel is a hotel in Kampala , the capital and largest city of Uganda . The hotel is rated 5-stars by the Uganda Tourism Board.[1]
Location [ edit ] The hotel is on Kintu Road on Nakasero Hill , in the centre of Kampala. The hotel is nestled among 17 acres (6.9 ha) of lawns and gardens.[2] The hotel is adjacent to the Kampala Sheraton Hotel and the Imperial Royale Hotel . It is in the Kampala Central Division , one of the five administrative divisions of the city. The coordinates of the Kampala Serena Hotel are 0°19'08.0"N, 32°35'11.0"E (Latitude:0.318889; Longitude:32.586400).[3]
Overview [ edit ] The hotel opened on 31 July 2006, after eighteen months of renovations and refurbishment at a cost of US$30.5 million.[4] The hotel is part of the Serena Hotels Group. It has 152 rooms, including thirteen suites, one of which is a presidential suite.[5] During the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 in Kampala, the hotel hosted Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for four nights.[6]
The hotel has its own helipad for easy transport between the hotel and Entebbe International Airport . Adjacent to the hotel is the Kampala Serena International Conference Center with a seating capacity of 1,500 and multilingual translation facilities of up to nine languages simultaneously.[7] In 2016, the hotel was expanded, with the addition of 32 bedrooms, and the improvement of food, beverage, and meeting facilities.[8] [9]
History [ edit ] International Conference Center at Serena Hotel [ edit ] International Conference Center at Serena Hotel was constructed in 1975 in order to host 13th Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).[10] The hexagonal building was completed by Energoprojekt holding from Non-Aligned Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .[10] The venue was subsequently used by Idi Amin regime for president's personal activities and according to some sources for torture of Amin's opponents and enemies.[10]
Ownership [ edit ] The Kampala Serena Hotel is owned by a consortium that includes three corporate entities; (a) Tourism Promotion Services , a division of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development , (b) the Uganda National Social Security Fund , (c) Proparco , a French property investment company.[11] [12] The table below summarizes the shareholding in the business.
Renovations [ edit ] In March 2016, the hotel began renovations that will "create 36 new residential rooms, a new state-of-the-art suite, partial refurbishment and alterations of the meeting rooms and create more executive lounges and meeting rooms".[13] The US$8 million expansion is partly funded by PROPARCO of France and is expected to last 12 months.[13]
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Barigaba, Julius (4 July 2015). "Hotels In Kampala Get Classified, Seven Years On" . The EastAfrican . Nairobi. Retrieved 4 July 2015 . ^ AKDN (10 November 2006). "President Museveni and Aga Khan inaugurate Kampala Serena hotel" . Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). Retrieved 20 May 2016 . ^ Google (4 July 2015). "Location of Kampala Serena Hotel At Google Maps" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 4 July 2015 . ^ Olaki, Emmy (12 July 2012). "Serena Hotel ready" . New Vision . Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 7 July 2014 . ^ "The Kampala Serena Hotel" . Serena Hotels . Retrieved 7 July 2014 . ^ Felix Osike, Alfred Wasike, and Henry Mukasa (21 November 2007). "Queen Elizabeth II Is Here" . New Vision . Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 7 July 2014 . ^ "Conferences, Meetings And Events At the Kampala Serena Hotel" . Serena Hotels . Retrieved 7 July 2014 . ^ Omusolo, Moses (25 August 2015). "Serena bets big on tourism rebound, gets Sh2bn loan" . Daily Nation . Nairobi. Retrieved 25 August 2015 . ^ Juma, Victor (26 August 2015). "Serena Hotels in $20m deal with French fund Proparco" . The EastAfrican . Nairobi. Retrieved 27 August 2015 . ^ a b c Niebyl, Donald (29 March 2020). "10 Works of Yugoslav Modernist Architecture in Africa & the Middle East" . The Spomenik Database . The Spomenik Database. Retrieved 31 March 2020 . ^ Juma, Victor (25 August 2015). "Serena Hotels in Sh2 billion deal with French fund Proparco" . Business Daily Africa . Nairobi. Retrieved 20 May 2016 . ^ Geresom Musamali, and Charles Bwogi (8 October 2007). "NSSF buys 20% stake in Serena Hotel" . New Vision . Kampala. Retrieved 20 May 2016 . ^ a b Oketch, Martin Luther (20 May 2016). "Kampala Serena Hotel starts Shs 26 billion expansion" . Daily Monitor . Kampala. Retrieved 20 March 2016 . [dead link ] External links [ edit ]
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