Creating Ghana's Best Guest & Hospitality Experience x Maurice Aouad | S4 Ep. 2
The Sound of Accra PodcastDecember 14, 202200:57:18

Creating Ghana's Best Guest & Hospitality Experience x Maurice Aouad | S4 Ep. 2

This week, Adrian is joined by Maurice Aouad, one of the pioneers of serviced accommodation and Airbnb in Accra, Ghana. He's also one of the premier providers of short-let property rentals in the country. There's a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to Maurice, as you find out he's not your average entrepreneur, who has had a very interesting career too.

Maurice Aouad is a multifaceted business owner, with the ability to create value, by utilising experience and discernment. He’s also the founder of IVI properties, established in 2012. It has the main Purpose to offer tailored made Property solutions by helping Property Owners with Under-Utilized Portfolio’s develop an alternative income stream and in turn offering inbound travellers to top destinations worldwide, real value for their money by renting on a short-term basis a fully serviced luxury apartments in Fantastic and convenient locations. IVI has rapidly grown over the past few years and currently has the recognition for Luxury short-term letting apartments within the Property industry.

Show Notes
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Topics
0:00 Intro
1:35 Icebreaker
3:28 Pioneering Airbnb/ Service accommodation in Accra
4:10 How Ivi Properties started
5:27 What Ivi Properties means
6:58 Lack of professionalism in the property industry in Ghana
9:21 Ghana’s emerging hospitality industry
9:58 Ivi properties locations
13:21 Biggest lessons
17:03 Year of Return Bookings 2019
19:52 Guest experience
21:54 Partners
23:14 Guest vetting
28:28 Guest booking tips
31:10 Life before Ivi Properties
36:14 DJ life
37:13 Drummer Box (Fintech)
40:50 The Real Estate & Diaspora Transition in Ghana
48:01 40 under 40 Awards
48:58 Future of Ivi Properties & Maurice
52:07 Final thoughts
56:53 Socials

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