Hotelier Mohammed Hersi. file photo | nmg 
Summary
- The hotels group owns the Voyager Resort in Mombasa and Tsavo, Interpids camps in Samburu and Maasai Mara as well as the Great Rift Valley Lodge in Naivasha.
- Mara Explorer Camp and the Kipungani Explorer in Lamu Island are also part of the establishment.
- Mr Hersi was based at the Voyager Resort in Mombasa. He has steered the group through the slump in the hotel industry that almost crippled the sector.
Hotelier Mohammed Hersi is set to leave the Kenyatta family-owned Heritage Hotels East Africa at the end of this month.
Mr Hersi, who was appointed to head the Heritage Hotels in 2013 from Sarova Whitesands, announced his departure yesterday.
“It is time to move on,” said Mr Hersi, who spent four years with Heritage.
The
hotels group owns the Voyager Resort in Mombasa and Tsavo, Interpids
camps in Samburu and Maasai Mara as well as the Great Rift Valley Lodge
in Naivasha.
Mara Explorer Camp and the Kipungani Explorer in Lamu Island are also part of the establishment.
“Tourism
& Hospitality is in my DNA so I will still be doing what I love
most,” he said, but declined to disclose where he will be heading at the
end of his tenure.
Mr Hersi was based at the Voyager Resort in Mombasa. He
has steered the group through the slump in the hotel industry that
almost crippled the sector. In 2016, the hotelier managed to retain
staff at the voyager hotel, a turnaround from 2015 where the management
and staff of the group were forced to take 20 per cent to 30 per cent
pay cuts to avoid layoffs.
He joined Sarova Whitesands
in the mid-1990s and steered the business through difficult moments,
including the 2002 Kikambala bombing and the 1998 US embassy blast in
Nairobi.
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