The new-built hotel in Cotonou, Benin’s largest city and financial hub, forms part of a larger mixed-use development comprising the largest shopping centre, a diagnostic centre and residential apartments.The Radisson Blu Hotel Cotonou will raise the number of countries Rezidor is present in to 71. The emerging market of Africa is one of the group’s key focus areas for future business development, with 21 hotels in operation across the continent, and another 27 in the pipeline.