The advisory arm of Flame Lily Hospitality — hospitality development expertise grounded in real hotel operating experience across Southern Africa. Flame Lily Development Consultancy is the advisory arm of Flame Lily Hospitality, focused exclusively on the front end of hospitality development — the feasibility, design, costing, and structuring work that determines whether a project gets built, and whether it performs once it opens. We work across Sub-Saharan Africa, engaging independent architects, quantity surveyors, valuers, and financial advisors on a project-by-project basis. Each assignment is resourced with the specialists best suited to that site, market, and brand — not a fixed in-house team. This means the team on your project is chosen for your project, not assigned from a standing roster. With offices in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zambia, we combine regional presence with on-the-ground market knowledge across Southern Africa — close enough to the ground to understand local planning, labour, and construction realities; connected enough to structure deals for international capital and brands. Founded by a hospitality operator with two decades of hands-on hotel leadership — including as General Manager of Hilton Garden Inn Lusaka, Zambia, and having held senior leadership positions across multiple international locations — our feasibility and design work is grounded in what actually happens after a hotel opens, not just what looks good on paper. We’ve run the P&L, staffed the departments, and managed the guest experience our own projections describe.
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