Webinar: The Big Question – How will the Hospitality Industry Recover? | The Planner

The LSC Group presents a webinar with Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo, COO of the City Lodge Hotel Group.

Date: Thursday, 25 June 2020
Time: 11h30
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The webinar will explore questions such as:

  • How will the Hospitality Industry recover from the devastating loss of business due to lockdown?
  • What are the key recovery strategies for hotels?
  • What unique offerings can a hotel design to attract guests who are nervous of exposure to COVID-19?
  • What does South Africa offer, as a country, that would make it a destination of choice when international tourism opens?

About Lindiwe

Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo studied at the hospitality school, Ecole Les Roche, in Switzerland and at Penn State University obtaining a BSc in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, graduating in 1993. Her hospitality career began at the Grand Hyatt Washington DC. She then joined the Park Hyatt Rosebank and was appointed to the Executive Committee as Rooms Director. Lindiwe was Chief Director of tourism support at the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in 1999 before being appointed as General Manager of the InterContinental Sandton Towers Hotel. Lindiwe started her own hospitality company and developed the first Holiday Inn in Soweto in 2007 later renamed the Soweto Hotel and Conference Centre. She was CEO of the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre before joining the City Lodge Hotel Group where she holds the position of Chief Operating Officer. She sits on the Board of South African Tourism and is Chairperson of the Tourism B-BBEE Charter Council.