How Hotel Next Has Changed the Face of Masaka City

By. BRIAN MUGENYI

From the exploration point of view, adventuring is inspiring but Hotel Next is a place everyone would love to spend time with family and co-workmates during the meeting and dialoging sessions.

The hotel business is predominately one of the most booming and ever-lasting sources of income generation on the African continent if any business merchant such as Mr. Sotius Ssegawa the owner and the proprietor of Hotel Next in Masaka City is willing to make a profitable source of investment.

See, locally and internationally, Hotel Next which was opened up on 1st July 2023 and it has raised the flag of tourism sector higher in the region.

Born to Mr. Micheal Titus Kiwanuka and Ms Pascazia Nansubuga residents of Kisoso Village in Masaka City, Mr. Sotius Ssegawa is Married to wife, Kevine Ssegwa residents of Kyabakuza suburb and is a graduate with a bachelors Degree and information technology from Mutesa 1 Royal University, Post graduate diploma in project planning and management and a Diploma in Diploma in Electrical Engineering.

“I have a journey to walk and create a difference in the hotel business in Masaka City and Uganda is my major driving factor,” said Mr. Sotius Ssegawa.

“Several organizations and companies are joining us into business and we’ve clients from different countries coming to enjoy our facilities,” added Ssegawa.

Despite the demand for high-class services preferred by clients regularly especially in Uganda, the hotel Next boost with three floors and the facility holds 34 rooms with internet and inbuilt-up Air Conditioner (AC) ranging at shs: 300,000 for the executive rooms and shs: 250,000 for double occupancy rooms and shs: 250,000 for other double rooms.

Ssegawa says that through a friend Mr. Ali Kakooza, he was able to get inspired into hotel business and since he wanted a unique facility it became too easy for him to save capital in form of knowledge, expertise and financial investment to realise money by saving and bank facilities to start constructing hotel next which is booming in Masaka City.

As the cities grow with the influence of people and their resettlement from rural into urban centers, the demand curve for good services with both local and international foods, local juice of all kinds offered to clients during the breakfast, lunch and supper by hotels always occur and the pressure to deliver according to clients expectations rose highly which Mr. Ssegawa has been able to cater for the conference room too at Hotel Next accommodates 250 and 200 people respectively within the two stationed conference rooms.

According to Mr. Sotius Ssegawa also a renowned electrician and the pioneer of Segken company in Masaka City in 2006 says that he grew up admiring to be a business man and when he ventured into retailing electricity accessories from China after attaining a Diploma in Electrical engineering and enrolled for further studies as he was juggling business and today he smiles off to Hotel Next whose services in offering accommodation and palpable foods at the restaurant have been remarkably held with high regards in Masaka City along Soweto Sub-parish.

“Professionally I have learnt a lot by working for big organizations like “The American Tower Company, Airtel, Umeme, UEDCL and many others which boosted me and my fellow teammates and we were able to learn a lot in business and they were transparent and eager to boost local content which inspired me a lot to invest locally in Hotel management and I learnt a lot from them,” shared Sotius Ssegawa during an interview.

Ssegawa remarkably set the pace for the business community and he has gradually dealt in Solar installation and Electricity extension with companies that always grant him contracts and banking institutions in Uganda that have granted him with loans and fund the financial scale muscle of expanding the Hotel Next facility due to his professionalism.

The Hotel Next remains a place where people hold their meetings at the hotel facility which is regarded by thousands as a hospitable place to network and get connected for corporate companies.

It has slightly been a meeting hub for corporate companies and government officials preferred resting place with 34 accommodation rooms with an extension nearing completion with more 45 rooms including presidential suits too being installed at the 7 floor building in construction phase and in progress yet to be with the swimming pool and health club thus far.

Ssegawa’s Hotel Next arguably remains one of the highly attended hotels in the region due to its cleanness and accommodative ample space for both family, couple and single designed rooms for the guests.

The standing ovation of Hotel Next in Masaka City is much more than what meets the eye and it has radically attracted the local audience and people within Masaka City and beyond.

The reception alone at Hotel Next is the one that is soothing as the security and the reception team amalgamate well to fix the void of attracting clients regardless of their status quo and thus far.

It is 5pm on a chilly Monday where the owner of Hotel Next in Masaka City, Mr. Sotius Ssegawa is as jolly and receptive as a lovely bird to attend all the day’s hustle meetings before roaring for this interview.

It is crystal clear that with Hotel Business and its growth radically in Masaka City, is a one that is booming and numerous entrepreneurs such as Sotius Ssegawa could rise up such a multi-billion project to attract them with accommodation and relaxing with their families at a negotiable price.

The hotel Next one of a moving business entrepreneur too resourceful with knowledge and adaptive with all situations to allocate resources in boosting hotel Next without looking back whatever.

It is the receptive green carpet receptive place along the sizable place adjacent to the gateway premises of Hotel Next where majority are attracted to keep peace and friendship with their loved ones or even braving business and official meetings.

It is no crime to say, that ever since Mr. Ssegawa opened up Hotel Next in Masaka City, alot that changed drastically with the facility services such as conference rooms, restaurant and the accommodation rooms that gives customers a level of bill to their satisfaction.

The owner Ssegawa reclaimed such a hotel in the era of modern technology and it has been hard work coupled with teamwork that has elongated him to this far.

With the stiff competition in the hotel business remaining intense, Mr. Ssegawa remains jolly and formidable with the agenda of switching Hotel Next as a place of all and sundry within Masaka City and worldwide.

In order to realise such a facility, Mr. Ssegwa worked hard like a trojan to come up with what is termed as a place of all and sundry and it fits slightly in the vision and aspirations of the proprietor and he credits banking institutions in Uganda that helped him to lend him funds to realize his dream of erecting Hotel Next in Masaka City.

It is energizing to envision where Mr. Ssegawa has been before and where he is today and what awaits within his targets from 2025 and year on.

He is an innovative man with a mission to change the face of Hotel management and ownership within the country whose ideas and working efficacy altogether has changed the face of his clientele base and beyond.

Ssegawa remains a creative nous and too figurative with his agenda of fine-tuning the hotel management beyond borders.

He has remained a man of what the lay man in Masaka City knew as a business starter and his character and charisma resonates well with the receptive chronology always referred to by customers in the business management.

As for planning and visionary purposes, Mr. Ssegawa passed the taste well as the developmental planning agenda for Masaka Municipal Council was well followed as the Hotel facility gives a clear overview of how the hotel would look like and be managed in the heart of Masaka City.