The Protea Hospitality Group has joined forces with Avios Group (AGL) Limited as South Africa’s foremost hospitality partner.

1. PROTEA HOSPITALITY GROUP JOINS FORCES WITH AVIOS TO PROVIDE DOUBLE
REWARDS
November 2013: The Protea Hospitality Group has joined forces with Avios Group (AGL)
Limited as South Africa’s foremost hospitality partner.
The Avios Travel Rewards Programme was recently launched in South Africa and is a new
loyalty programme allowing travellers to collect Avios points to use for flights on premium
airline, British Airways. The partnership with the Protea Hospitality Group, available to
members of the Avios Travel Rewards Programme as well as British Airways Executive Club
members, brings together two iconic travel brands.
As of today, the programme will allow Avios members to earn points on their hotel
accommodation spend at Protea Hotels & African Pride Hotels.
Protea Hospitality Group Director of Sales, Marketing and Revenue, Danny Bryer, says the
earning of Avios points at Protea Hotels and African Pride Hotels is linked to the company’s
own Prokard Rewards Programme, which is the first loyalty programme established in South
Africa.
Silver, Gold and Platinum Prokard members receive double value if they are Avios Travel
Rewards Programme or British Airways Executive Club members, in that they earn Avios points
as well as Prokard Rands on their accommodation spend every time they check into a
Protea Hotel or African Pride Hotel.
Prokard Rands work on a 1:1 basis, while one Avios point is earned for every R10 of a guest’s
accommodation spend.
To qualify for Avios points, guests need to quote both their Prokard and their Avios Travel
Rewards Programme or British Airways Executive Club membership numbers to hotels during
check-in.
Bryer says the partnership is a natural one between a loyalty programme that has more than
5 million members globally, and Africa’s largest and leading hotel group.
“When the Avios Travel Rewards Programme launched here recently, the Protea Hospitality
Group was the obvious choice of accommodation partner because of our strategic spread,
our brand standards and our own successful loyalty programme and membership base. “We
know Avios shares those same brand values, which is why we’ve gone the extra mile in giving
our Prokard members from Silver upwards a ‘double dip’ earning both Prokard Rands and
Avios Points on their accommodation spend, which is a very attractive rewards programme
benefit and one like no other in the South African travel industry.
“We look forward to a long partnership with Avios that will showcase not only the best of
South Africa, but the leading hotel group on the continent too.”
Nick Pilbeam, Director of New Markets & Business Development for Avios Group Limited
(AGL) says of the partnership with the Protea Hospitality Group: “We’re very excited to
partner with the Protea Hospitality Group and offer South Africans a chance to collect Avios
points in some of the top hotels in the country. This partnership gives our members great
value for money by offering them the opportunity to earn Avios points to use towards flights
with British Airways* as well as to earn Prokard Rands when they check into a Protea Hotel or
African Pride Hotel.”
* Taxes, fees and charges or Reward Flight Saver (RFS) are payable on flights. Instead
of paying airline taxes, fees and carrier charges on local and regional flights, Avios
Travel Rewards Programme members as well as British Airways Executive Club

2. Members who collect 1 Avios in the 12 months prior to booking flights pay RFS. This is
a flat fee of R700 per person on a return economy regional or domestic British Airways
flight, plus the Avios fare, to exciting destinations including Durban, Port Elizabeth,
Livingstone, Windhoek and as far afield as Mauritius and Maputo, Harare and Victoria
Falls. This is good value as airline taxes, fees and carrier charges can be up to 50%
more expensive. Full taxes, fees and charges will be levied against international
flights.