Trevor Ward

Job Title: Managing Director
Company Name: W Hospitality Group

Trevor Ward is a specialist consultant in the hospitality and leisure industries.  He started his consultancy career in 1983, having previously completed a university degree in hotel management at the University of Surrey.  From the late 1980s he has specialised in the provision of advisory services to clients in developing countries, and since 2003 has been based in Nigeria, the continent’s largest oil and gas producer, advising clients there and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Trevor is the Principal of the W Hospitality Group with offices in the UK, Kenya, the Caribbean, Nigeria and Angola.

His international experience includes advising clients on hotel and tourism development in more than 70 countries in Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.  With a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, he is working with many of the international hotel groups who are seeking a presence their, from the oil-rich countries of the west to the tourism hotspots of the south and east.  He is regarded as one of the foremost experts on the hotel industry in sub-Saharan Africa, and is engaged primarily in development consultancy ranging from investment appraisals to operator selection, owner’s representation and asset management.

In addition to his advisory work, Trevor is an active member of the Institute of Hospitality (formerly the HCIMA) and of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, and has recently been appointed as the Institute of Hospitality’s Ambassador for sub-Saharan Africa, coordinating and developing their activities there.  He is also a Fellow of the British Association of Hospitality Accountants, and a member of Tourism Concern and of the Royal African Society.

Trevor is a regular speaker at industry conferences.