Iconic Durban hotel closes its doors as Covid-19 tightens grip on hospitality industry

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One of the most prestigious hotels in the KwaZulu-Natal province, the Hilton Durban, will close its doors on Monday, January 11.

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“We are currently not taking bookings past the 11th of January as we will be closing, sir, but we will be reopening,” a Hilton employee told the African News Agency on Friday. The Hilton Durban, however, isn’t the only hotel in the province to suffer a major knock from the pandemic. The Fairmont Zimbali Hotel underwent business rescue in September 2020.

 

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Oh no! What's going to happen to the employees? We were there in Sep 2019.

popayi_ingwane Our industry is really on its knees 🤕😷🤒

Thats the end of Rivets ..

This is bad, real bad 😱

KhandaniM CyrilRamaphosa legacy

The Thuma mina funders will take over. Covid was developed for such things.

AshrafGarda Very sad as it has played a massive role in South African tourism.

My Jesus, unemployment is the pivotal source of all social ills.

Wither South African economy ?

Yerrrr 😔😔😔how many ppl are going to loss their jobs 😢💔

Aowa my fave hotel 😭😭😭😭

moripe74 Dude check this sad news!!

Eh! Ta vuya

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Eish the unemployment numbers increase again

EdzziM 😢😢😢

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They really should use this space before it gets hijacked. There's a lot that can be done, change it to apartments or hospital or into office space something please.

This is sad

😭😭people's Jobs jesu

It'd make a great hospital

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Turn it into luxury apartments

Second hotel group, Hyatt last year before Covid

VoetsekANC

Yoh !! This is sad hey .

Jehova

Give it a few months and it will be filled with squaters and drug runners...

Yho!

🙊🙊

Yoh

Change of venue for the feba gang

Memories

Don’t let it go to waste. Use it as a hospital. sziks

This is bad 😩😭

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Tourist industry really took a big knock .Take long road to recovery ,how many people are going to be unemployed now.This is a big hotel what about the small lodges,b&b etc even small companies battling to keep there doors open .Just sad reality what is happening now all over .

thulasindi Go cheap or go home

Kubi 💔

thulasindi boitymellow_m

the amount of jobs that will be lost. 💔

Airbnb boom casualties.

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Hotels are going 4IR most hotels will be self-service in the future meaning many individuals will lose their jobs

VoetsekANC

Haibo! I had a great time with my friend the last time I was there, yhooo this is sad news maan...💔

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NomtZ1 this is bad

ms_tourist 😳

Wow that is horrible those poor families. Shows you though, foreign company's do not care less about SA workers! These workers are retrenched in a pandemic by a very wealthy global hotel chain! Unreal!

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