Profile

Trevor Ward

Managing Director & Founder
W Hospitality Group

Trevor Ward is a specialist consultant in the hospitality and leisure industries.  He is the Principal of the W Hospitality Group with offices in the UK, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Angola.  He commenced his consultancy career in 1983, having previously completed a university degree in hotel management at the University of Surrey, and after a period of operational management in hotels in the UK.  His involvement in the Turkish hospitality industry started in 1985, when he conducted investment appraisals for proposed new hotels in Istanbul and on the south coast – since then, he has undertaken client assignments throughout the country, including strategic reviews for companies involved in or planning to enter the country.

Trevor’s long-established links with Turkey led to work in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and throughout the former Soviet Union, and he has recently been active advising on a resort development in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

For over two decades he has specialised in the provision of advisory services to clients in developing countries, and since 2003 has been based in Nigeria advising clients there and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.  Trevor has extensive international experience, advising clients on hotel and tourism development in more than 80 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 there, 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, for which he is their Ambassador for Africa, and of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants.  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.