{"id":5050,"date":"2016-10-05T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2017-07-15T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:19:28","slug":"president-kagame-receives-marriott-hotels-international-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=5050","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame receives Marriott Hotels International CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5049\" src=\"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&amp;web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marriott2016audience.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marriott2016audience.jpg 674w, https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marriott2016audience-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 5 October 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame today received the CEO of Marriott Hotels International, Arne Sorensen who came to attend the official opening of Marriott hotel Kigali, the first hotel of its brand in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting President Kagame, Sorensen said his discussions with President Kagame dwelt on many issues regarding Rwanda\u2019s hospitality industry and the hotel group\u2019s interests in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRwanda\u2019s future is impressive especially in tourism. Rwanda\u2019s visibility in Africa and the rest of the world is a key factor in attracting investments in different sectors. Marriott looks to come to Rwanda and take advantage of the economic growth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The CEO of the Rwanda Development Board, Francis Gatare said the entry of Marriott Hotel into Rwanda would boost Rwanda\u2019s hospitality industry and MICE initiative, considering their standing in the global hotel industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 5 October 2016 President Kagame today received the CEO of Marriott Hotels International, Arne Sorensen who came to attend the official opening of Marriott hotel Kigali, the first hotel of its brand in sub-Saharan Africa. After meeting President Kagame, Sorensen said his discussions with President Kagame dwelt on many issues regarding Rwanda\u2019s hospitality industry and the hotel group\u2019s interests in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}