Elevate Your Hospitality Career
with Slhata

Elevate your career in hospitality, leisure, and tourism with SLHATA’s professional development and training opportunities

Capacity Building

Mapping our Hidding Treasures

Activating National Awareness

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WHO WE ARE

We create a culture that inspires us to work smart, together.

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Benefit

Benefit of joining Slhata

benefit of joining SLHATA is the networking opportunities it provides. As a member, you’ll have the chance to connect with other hospitality and tourism industry professionals from around the world. This can be a great way to build your professional network, learn from others in the industry, and even discover new career opportunities.

professional representation

Being assured of Informed and professional representation in the drafting of policy and/or the implementation of legislation which affects our sector.

Real time information

Receiving real time information on changes in policy affecting our industry.

Seek advice and counsel

The ability to seek advice and counsel for matters that concern disputes between Union/employees.

participate in pertinent training

• The opportunity to participate in pertinent training sessions or courses organized or promoted by SLHATA.

The certainty of excellent representation

The certainty of excellent representation and a powerful platform to advocate on your behalf when ill-conceived government and local authorities’ fees are imposed to the detriment of your business in particular, or our industry in general.

Seek advice and counsel

The ability to seek advice and counsel for matters that concern disputes between Union/employees.

Connecting businesses, ideas, and people for greater
impact

It is an international professional membership body for hotels, airlines, tourism businesses, managers, and aspiring managers who work and study in the hospitality, leisure, and tourism industries.

We are ready to serve you differently.

SLHATA offers its members advocacy and representation on policy and legislation that affects the hospitality, leisure, and tourism industry.

Benefit

Empowering Hospitality Through Collaborative Growth.

Empowering Hospitality Through Collaborative Growth.” This phrase represents our commitment to driving the success of the hospitality, leisure, and tourism industry in Sierra Leone and Africa by working collaboratively with our members, stakeholders, and communities. 

We believe that by empowering hospitality professionals with the tools and resources they need to succeed, promoting collaboration and networking, and fostering sustainable growth, we can elevate the industry and position it for long-term success. Through this collaborative approach, we strive to unlock new opportunities for our members and support the development of Sierra Leone and Africa’s tourism industry.

Vision

Our vision is to be the leading professional membership organization for the hospitality, leisure, and tourism industry in Sierra Leone and Africa, providing our members with exceptional opportunities for growth, advocacy, and success, while working collaboratively with stakeholders to advance and develop the industry."

Mission

To contribute to the growth of the Hospitality Industry and Tourism Sector through effective representation of private sector industry and stakeholder interests.

Motto

Our goal at SLHATA is to strengthen the hospitality, leisure, and tourism industry in Sierra Leone by prioritizing capacity building among our members, mapping and promoting our hidden treasures, advocating for representation and awareness at a national level, and activating community engagement.

Top Attraction areas

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Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

The sanctuary was founded in 1995 by Bala and Sharmila Amarasekaran. Starting in the late 1980s, the husband-and-wife conservationist team had worked with primatologist Rosalind Alp to gather data on chimpanzees in the pet trade in Sierra Leone

Bunce Island

TWENTY MILES UP THE SIERRA Leone River from Freetown is Bunce Island, the site of a former British slave trading castle. The castle operated from 1670 and 1808 and sent around 50,000 enslaved humans from the African Rice Coast to the Americas. Most of the slaves who went through Bunce Island were sent to South Carolina and Georgia, where knowledge of rice cultivation was in high demand.

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Old Wharf Steps

CONSTRUCTED IN 1818 UNDER CHARLES MACCARTHY’S governorate, MacCarthy built the first brick construction in the country starting with the Government Wharf.

These steps are one of only a few constructions still standing from that period and connected the wharf to the city. 

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