May 8, 2020by Mandisa Magwaxaza

Creating Luxury Hotels, Eco-lodges and Waterways

Mantis’ Turn-key Solution for Hotel Owners

Mantis luxury hotels, eco-lodges and waterways are travel experiences located all over the world. Sustainable travellers have been enjoying eco-tourism, safaris and adventure travel with Mantis since 2000. Mantis creates hospitality experiences from the ground up and offers five key service pillars to ensure the wholesome sustainability of any tourism business. Hotel owners benefit from these services as one efficient turn-key solution for travel businesses that includes development, sales & marketing, hotel management, conservation and education.

Mantis Development

Differentiation sets us apart

A full suite of development services is offered to complement the existing operational capabilities of the group. This creates a truly unique world-class ‘one-stop’ service, capable of taking a project from conception and feasibility, through to detailed design and construction. With a portfolio of distinguished and acutely individualised hotels and eco escapes, Mantis’ key to success is innovation and creativity. A highly skilled, professional team will ensure that your project is managed and receives the appropriate care. Whether involved from conceptualisation, feasibility, detailed design and construction, we tailor-make development and project management solutions articulated according to the environment, budget, and the owner’s vision.

Our Services Include:

Management oversight and support
Staff recruitment and training Implementation of Operating Procedures, tailored to the experience on offer and the environment of the property
Administrative support

Hotel Management

The Mantis Management division has a wealth of experience managing five-star boutique hotels, game reserves and eco-lodges, and offers effective operational and management services to all establishments under the Mantis brand.

Sales & Marketing

Mantis offers its member properties the ideal sales and marketing solutions to ensure the success of their boutique business. With a presence in South Africa, North America, the United Kingdom, and visits to many other parts of the world including Europe and the Americas, the Mantis Marketing
division offers extensive international reach.

Through this network, Mantis offers a full suite of sales and marketing related services and activities including international sales, tradeshow representation, public relations, online distribution, revenue management and strategy implementation.

Conservation

At Mantis, our underlying philosophy is one of responsible and ecologically sensitive development and operations, supporting the local environment while conserving and maintaining all-natural resources. With this as our foundation, Mantis offers a complete range of Conservation Services to suit the needs of any property or reserve. We offer our services to the tourism and wildlife sectors with the aim of promoting biodiversity while fulfilling our conservation and sustainability objectives.

Furthermore, while we continuously strive to maintain an ecological balance, we also aim to improve the socioeconomic status of the various regions in which we operate. By taking a holistic approach, we aim to integrate community, education, sustainability and conservation to
achieve our conservation goals.

Education

Mantis has always recognised that education is an important facet of the growth and ultimate success of the world’s youth. With conservation, hospitality and travel being the founding columns of Mantis; it’s only natural that the Group developed a programme that exposes young minds and hearts to the practical preservation of the natural world.

This educational programme came in the form of Worldwide Experience gives students and volunteers the opportunity to work behind the scenes on game reserves, animal rehabilitation centres, community projects and ocean research programmes.

Mantis has also aligned itself with Europe’s largest hospitality school Stenden University, with campuses in Holland, Thailand, Bali, Qatar and South Africa. Top students are invited to partake in our group intern program whereby they have the opportunity to work within a Mantis hotel.