Project justification

Proposed project – HOTEL

City or town – Arba Minch

• located at 505 Km and 275 Km away from Addis Ababa and Hawassa respectively.
• The town is bounded in the north, northeast and east by Lake Abaya and in the South by Lake
Chamo and in the west with the Gennta massive hills.
• Well known for its crocodile market, hot spring, crocodile ranch, colorful traditional clothes,
mesmerizing local culture, Nech Sar National Park and more.
Factors that affects the tourist flow

• Transport accessibility
• Comfortable place to stay
• Good service quality (hospitality)
• Secure and peaceful
• Environmental change
International tourist arrivals in Ethiopia: all trip Seasonality of international tourist
arrivals to Ethiopia
Environmental influence
Influence of security and safety
In 2016, social unrest in Oromia started at the end of 2015, in November 2016 violent anti-government
protests across the country led the Ethiopian government to declare a six-month state of emergency.
The United States, as well as the United Kingdom, Germany and other source markets warned citizens
against all.
After the lift of the European country ban also the state of emergency the tourist flow has recovered in
2017 and 2018 with a record 933,344 in 2017.
After that an advantage of that more tourists began to flow to the southern part of Ethiopia which is the
main tourist destination, Arba Minch.
 After that an advantage of that more Tourist Satisfaction
tourists began to flow to the southern
part of Ethiopia which is the main tourist
destination, Arba Minch. Tourist
satisfaction

Safety and Perceived Environment Tourism

Hospitality
security price value al quality service

NECH SAR
One of the earliest national parks in Ethiopia. Based on the reaction of the respondents the dissatisfaction comes from

Established in 1974 as a result of its natural beauty
and a large number of wild animals.
the poor road facilities and deforestation. Cattle grazing with wildlife,
poor service provided during nightlife in camp site, lack of facility
for children and elders are also among the factors that caused dissatisfaction
of the tourists. And mainly the fact that there is no more option to stay
which is comfortable to children and elderly.
Objective
• With an input from the research and analysis regarding the usage of energy efficiently in Arba Minch is to come up
with a responsive solution and propose a design hotel project by integrating active and passive techniques. And
create an energy efficient building in Arba Minch town.
• Design hotel that has different activities and functions from ordinary hotels that are exists.
• Creating a comfortable and cost-efficient environment also for local residents
• reduce the energy cost spent for heating and cooling during summer and winter seasons.
• Creating comfortable environment which can be used from children to elderly

Targeted users Benefits of the project

The targeted users are going to be both domestic and
foreign tourists who would like to see the beautiful tourist
destinations and also the local residents, since there
could be different kinds of activities for those residents
should be fair.
• Warm building air and indoor spaces which
is replaced with cooler outside air. Directing
moving air across occupants’ skin.
• There is going to be more options to the
users to choose the one they like and feel
comfortable with.
• Since there are different types of functions,
they are going to able to find in one place.
• Energy efficient landscape design to enjoy
the walking time by the guests.
• Able to enjoy their time with fair price.
Energy efficient design benefits
Environmental benefit
Economical benefit
• Decreasing the manufacturing processes that
• Using recycled building materials are essential to
create negativities to a large extent in terms of
reduce the embodied energy in the building also
energy consumption and emissions.
the cost that is going to spent in producing the
• Elevating the importance of recycling the building
new material from the start, cost efficient.
materials and compositions used in the project.
• Using materials that are produced in the site so
• The skin of building performs the role of a filter
energy consumption in transportation will
between indoor and outdoor conditions, to
decrease and that saving in transportation will
control the intake of air, heat, cold, and light.
give the construction an important ecological
quality.
• Choosing energy and cost-efficient building
materials
• Elevate the towns hotel and tourism economy
scale by attracting while giving comfortable
spaces to stay and enjoy more often.