City board, then bush
Nairobi and Arusha are the grown-up meeting cities. Hemingways or a five-star Arusha night, a closed morning, Wilson or Arusha Airport after lunch. Kenya is the most efficient version of this rhythm.
Meetings
What types of corporate meetings do you manage in East Africa?
This page covers executive meetings and working sessions for corporate event managers and travel buyers. Bush lodges in Kenya and Tanzania typically sleep 150 on double occupancy (75 single) with meeting rooms of 80–120. City and beach hotels run to 300+ rooms. Lead time 6–12 months. We will not put a 200-delegate plenary in a six-tent camp.
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Leadership retreat in camp
Most Kenya and Tanzania bush lodges sleep 150 on double occupancy (75 single) — Four Seasons Serengeti, Meliá Serengeti, Serengeti Explorer by Elewana among them. Meeting rooms are 80–120. Intimate tented camps stay 8–24. We tell you what the wifi will and will not do.
Island working session
Park Hyatt Stone Town, Four Seasons Mahé, Mauritius east-coast resorts. Use the island when the guest list is already flying for leisure and you need one serious morning.
Meetings by destination
Meetings in each East Africa and Indian Ocean destination
Each page answers the planner search: venues, group size, lead time, and what we will not do in that country.
- Meetings in Tanzania
300+ rooms in Arusha; bush lodges 150 double / 75 single sleeping, meeting rooms 80–120; split above that
- Meetings in Kenya
300+ rooms in Nairobi hotels; bush lodges 150 double / 75 single sleeping, meeting rooms 80–120
- Meetings in Rwanda
8–40 in Kigali hotels; 8–24 split by gorilla family if the meeting becomes a trek
- Meetings in Uganda
8–30 boards in Kampala; conferences at Speke Munyonyo; 8–20 in Bwindi lodge clusters
- Meetings in Zanzibar
8–40 at Park Hyatt; larger lists only where the resort conference room is honest
- Meetings in Seychelles
8–40 for a working session; 10–30 on outer-island buy-outs
- Meetings in Mauritius
8–80 for a board or management meeting; 40–400 when the hotel’s plenary is real
- Meetings in Ethiopia
Boards of 8–40; conferences larger at Skylight or Sheraton; Bishoftu 8–24 EXCO
Read the journal on bush versus city meetings, connectivity in camp, retreat versus offsite and group air and visas, connectivity at safari venues and dietary and accessibility.