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· Capital Ethiopia
Ethiopian Investment Holdings plans a 150 room Hilton Garden Inn and a wellness facility inside the Hilton Addis Ababa compound, at a cost of about $55 million. Elmi Olindo Contractors builds it and ZIAS Architecture and Engineering is the consultant. The target date is October 2027, before the city hosts the COP32 climate summit in November 2027.
· Ethiopian Business Review
Haile Hotels and Resorts opens its eleventh property, a four-star hotel in Debre Berhan built for 1.9 billion birr. It has 123 rooms, four restaurants, six meeting halls and an indoor pool. The group now has 980 rooms. It adds 80 rooms at the Haile Grand Addis Ababa before COP32 and prepares expansion plans for Rwanda and Zambia.
· ENA
Ethiopia has 5,964 hotel rooms in 34 hotels under development, and 79.9% of them are under construction, the highest share in Africa, says a W Hospitality Group report. Addis Ababa has about 25,000 visitor beds and wants more than 80,000 before the COP32 climate summit in 2027. MIDROC plans a second Sheraton and a renovated Wabe Shebelle Hotel.
· Xinhua
Addis Ababa received 699,761 foreign tourists in the first half of the 2025/26 Ethiopian fiscal year, 15% more than a year before, says Mayor Adanech Abiebie. The visitors brought 155 billion birr in revenue. The city also counted 4.9 million domestic tourists. Nearly 150 international and continental events took place in the six months, a rise of 50%.