GTT named sole service provider for US$15M Aiden by Best Western Hotel

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) Business Solutions is set to be the sole service provider for the US$15 million boutique-style Aiden by Best Western Hotel that is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2024.
In line with the hotel’s vision, GTT announced on Friday that it will offer a comprehensive line of services designed to enhance the experience of its anticipated 149 smart rooms. These services include high-speed cable internet, state-of-the-art Wi-Fi connectivity, security solutions, and much more.
The new hotel, located at Robb and Oronoque Streets, Georgetown, is an undertaking of Guyanese-owned Arimu Investments Incorporated. The multi-million-dollar hotel will span nine floors of a 74,000 square foot modern building.

The vision is to have more than 100 executive rooms, an executive bar and lounge, executive conference rooms, private dining rooms, a state-of-the-art gym, bar, and restaurant.
Initially, the hotel was slated to have a 101-room capacity, but this has been increased to 150 rooms following the investor’s acquisition of additional land at its Robb and Oronoque Streets, Georgetown location early last year.

On December 16, 2022, Arimu Investment’s Inc announced that it signed a contract with a Chinese company, CNQC Engineering, and Construction Limited, to take the Aiden by Best Western to its “completion and turnkey stage”.
The company had initially said the hotel would be completed sometime between December 2023 and January 2024 after some delays and hindrances.
Aiden is a boutique-style hotel under the world-renowned Best Western Hotel and Resorts. It is part of a trendy collection of laid-back boutique hotels that blend cool, casual and charm with an eclectic neighbourly feel.
No two hotels are alike, as each is designed to reflect the unique personality of each community/country it serves. Guests would discover local flair and imaginative designs with Aiden as their welcoming and stylish host.
The Aiden by Best Western Hotel would be providing guests with executive chauffeur services, shuttle bus tours around Guyana, Demerara River tours, and the investor is also engaging the aviation sector for helicopter tour packages. This hotel will be the 12th Aiden Hotel worldwide and the first for the Caribbean and South America.
In keeping with Guyana’s push to increase the number of hotel rooms that can accommodate visitors to the country, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has been determined to create an enabling environment for new hotels. It is an initiative the Government expects will add 2000 hotel rooms over the next two years.
Brand-name hotels are springing up all over Guyana, with the sod turned last year for the AC Marriott hotel in Ogle and the Sheraton Hotel in Providence that will together add over 300 rooms to Guyana’s hospitality industry.
In June of 2022, Marriott International, in collaboration with H-Towers Incorporated and other international partners, signed an agreement that will bring the Sheraton Hotels & Resorts brand to Georgetown, Guyana, by 2025.
Then there is the AC Marriott Hotel, which will be situated on 2.61 acres of land 2.5km south of the Atlantic Ocean and 0.5km east of the Eugene F Correia Airport. The project is being developed by Trinuyana Investments. (G-12)