Southern Sun Hotel Group
Southern Sun Hotels are part of Tsogo Sun Hotels, South Africa's largest hotel chain and an operator of InterContinental Hotels - branded hotels in South Africa. Southern Sun was founded in 1969 by South African Breweries and hotelier Sol Kerzner. Until 2000, Southern Sun held a 20% stake in Sol Kerzner's Sun International. Today Tsogo Sun Hotels has more than 100 hotels in South Africa, Zambia, Seychelles, Tanzania and Mozambique. Southern Sun hotels and resorts are owned and managed by Tsogo Sun Hotels and include 24 properties such as Southern Sun The Cullinan and Southern  Sun Montecasino. Southern Sun is an African hotel group with a range of brands which provide accommodation across all markets and offer a distribution of hotels in South Africa in major urban centres and key destinations. In 2005, the company moved from being a brand manager to a brand owner and is an umbrella for many brands that make up the hotel group. The group has also invested in expanding into Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Seychelles and the Middle East, adding to their portfolio. Southern Sun is wholly owned by Tsogo Sun Hotels. In June 2019 Tsogo Sun Holdings  split into Tsogo Sun Gaming, which would operate the gaming and entertainment interests of the brand and Tsogo Sun Hotels, which would operate the hotel interests. Previously Southern Sun was part of Tsogo Sun but is now operated as part of Tsogo Sun Hotels. Rebranding. On 13 April 2012 the Southern Sun Hotel Group merged with Tsogo Sun Gaming & Tsogo Sun Holdings to create Tsogo Sun. In June 2019 Tsogo Sun split to become Tsogo Sun Hotels and Tsogo Sun Gaming. Southern Sun hotels as well as the various other hotel brands operated by Tsogo Sun are now operated as  part of Tsogo Sun Hotels.