Global hotel chains venture into Zanzibar

Tourists on a boat off Zanzibar island. PHOTO| FILE

Global hotel chain Marriott International has announced that it will open a hotel in Zanzibar to tap into the isle’s tourism business.

The planned $330 million hotel will be part of the Amber Resort complex, and the largest accommodation facility occupying 1,750 hectares of Indian Ocean coastline in the northeast of the island.