{"id":335323,"date":"2019-08-25T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=335323"},"modified":"2019-08-23T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T10:47:03","slug":"south-africa-now-has-hotels-rated-higher-than-5-stars-heres-what-they-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/335323\/south-africa-now-has-hotels-rated-higher-than-5-stars-heres-what-they-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa now has hotels rated higher than 5 stars – here’s what they look like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa officially introduced a new 5-star premium rating.<\/p>\n

According to the council, the introduction of the new grading level above the 5-star level was in response to a widespread comparative study completed as part of the grading system review process.<\/p>\n

A number of similar global quality assurance bodies have made the move to recognise and differentiate those products which exhibit a unique level of product quality, extensive guest amenities and world-class luxury service standards.<\/p>\n

“South Africa prides itself for being a tourism destination that has a variety of products catering for various traveler needs and affordability, said Darryl Erasmus, chief quality assurance officer at the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa.<\/p>\n

“Much time and energy has gone into setting grading standards that have the traveller\u2019s needs at the centre. This helps maintain South Africa\u2019s global competitiveness as a tourist destination.”<\/p>\n

Below BusinessTech looked at some of the South African hotels which have been awarded this 5-star premium grading:<\/p>\n

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Lion Sands Ivory Lodge<\/a> – Mpumalanga<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cape Town\u2019s The Silo Hotel<\/a> – Western Cape<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hermanus\u2019 Birkenhead House<\/a> – Western Cape\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Royal Malewane Lodge<\/a> – Mpumalanga\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: 9 awesome countries South Africans can visit visa-free in 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In April 2019, the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa officially introduced a new 5-star premium rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":335377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-335323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335323"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336591,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335323\/revisions\/336591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}