The Social Home has been honoured with the title of Kenya’s Leading Boutique Hotel on the World Travel Awards.
Right here Breaking Journey Information speaks to resort proprietor, Juliet Njogu, to learn how it feels to have been recognised by voters from across the globe.
Breaking Journey Information: Having claimed a high title on the World Journey Awards, how does it really feel to have received?
Juliet Njogu: Naturally we’re elated!
It’s an honour as a result of it reaffirms that what we got down to ship firstly of 2019 – to create a buzzy social, arts, music, culinary and music hub in Nairobi – is assembly with buyer delight.
BTN: How will the trophy allow you to to advertise the Social Home as we transfer into 2022?
JN: Despite the fact that journey restrictions on getting into Kenya are easing there may be nonetheless some technique to go to get again to pre-Covid-19 inbound ranges.
Add to this we’re the brand new children on the block and must develop our worldwide profile.
Being a winner within the World Journey Awards will probably be an enormous profile-booster for us past Africa.
It will likely be used as a part of our advertising efforts to attach with journey planners, on-line journey brokers, journey publications and journalists, and naturally the tip client from all continents.
If potential company see that we’ve got received a World Journey Award it should improve their confidence in making a reserving, whether or not or not that they’ve heard of our model.
BTN: What’s it that caught the attention of voters; what do you assume it’s that separates the Social Home from its opponents in Africa and the Indian Ocean?
JN: As an alternative of shaping the model round in a single day company and creating ancillary providers primarily for them, the Home was at first designed for locals.
That’s why, for instance, we’ve got 4 meals and beverage shops in an 83-room resort.
The restaurant and bar capability weren’t decided by the doubtless demand from in a single day company, however by locals.
In a way Nairobians have develop into very a lot part of the model: when company arrive from abroad as an alternative of strolling into one other practical reception area, they immerse themselves in a slice of true Kenyan life.
Our character additionally units aside from others by reflecting ‘fashionable Kenya’.
We now have tried to keep away from the standard Africana themes, as an alternative aiming for a spirit embracing in the present day’s extra adventurous, entrepreneurial, open-minded Kenya.
This consists of celebrating the pure joie de vivre of the locals.
We see little level in taking their appeal, effervescence and playfulness and suffocating it with formal apparel, pink tape and a service type extra akin to 19th century Europe.
Our mantra is to search out individuals who match with our model spirit after which, to a big extent, allow them to go categorical themselves.
That may be a far more highly effective approach of connecting with a visitor as the connection is human to human slightly than enterprise to visitor.
We by no means actually got down to be ‘higher’, as a result of that’s for company to find out.
However we did set out and proceed to hunt to be distinctive in methods which might be related and compelling to our Lesser Noticed Adventurers (AKA our company)!
Extra Info
Discover out extra concerning the Social Home on the official website.
