Your Excellency, Mr. President, Your Highness, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and, more specifically, its subsidiary units Tourism Promotion Services (TPS) and the Serena Hotel group, which we created some forty years ago, it is with the greatest happiness and pleasure that I welcome you today to this official opening (or should I say re-opening?) of this magnificent Hotel Polana. It is, for me, an occasion both exciting and gratifying.
The Polana Hotel has the status of an icon, one of the few hotels on this continent that can claim to have that status and one of the very few in this part of Africa.
Read at the source: Speech by Prince Amyn Aga Khan at the Inauguration of the Restoration the Polana Serena Hotel in Maputo, Mozambique