Monday, 25 June 2007

Spanish hotel chains eye Africa amid migrant crisis

(Reuters) - Spain's major hotel chains are checking out investment opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa as their government seeks to involve private business in its plan to curb illegal migration from the world's poorest continent.

"There is a clear concern on the part of the Spanish authorities to encourage a development of this type and we'd obviously be interested if the right framework existed," said Miguel Barcelo, director-general of expansion in Europe for the Barcelo Group, which has hotels in Morocco and Tunisia.


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