Sol Kerzner

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K.C.M.G. Solomon (Sol) Kerzner, K.C.M.G.M.G.

Albert August 1935 (born on September 23rd. ) is a South African accountant and business magnate.

He founded both of South Africa's most influential hotel companies, the Southern Sun Hotel Group and Sun International.

He is both the founder, chairman, and CEO of Kerzner International.

He has worked in the resort industry for more than 45 years.

Kerzner earned a B.Com (Accounting) and a B.Com (Hons) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, taking over the hotel management of his family's hotel company after Kerzner graduated with a B.Com (Accounting) and B.Com (Accounting) degree and qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Early life and education

Kerzner was born in Durban to Russian Jewish immigrants. His family owned and operated a chain of kosher hotels. Kerzner obtained a BCom (Hons) in Accounting and later qualified as a Certified Accountant from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He then took over the family business.

Personal life

Kerzner was married four times. Butch Kerzner, Andrea Kerzner, and Beverly Kerzner Mace were his first married couple, and together they had three children: Maurice Adler, Andrea Kerzner, and Beverly Kerzner Mace. Shirley Bestbier was his second wife; they had two children: Brandon Kerzner and Chantal Kerzner Sweeney. She later committed suicide shortly after the birth of her second child.

Miss World 1974 Anneline Kriel, his third wife, ended in divorce after five years. He dated model Christina Estrada and got engaged during a long time in the 1990s, but never married her. Heather Murphy, his fourth wife, wed in 2000, and they divorced in 2011.

Howard "Butch" Kerzner's uncle died in 2006 after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near Sosua in the Dominican Republic's Puerto Plata province. Vanessa Kerzner, his husband, and two children Tai and Kailin were left behind. Andrea Kerzner's granddaughter, Lalela, is the founder and CEO of Lalela, a charity dedicated to South Africa's vulnerable youth.

During the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) in March 2019, Kerzner was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the industry.

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Career

He bought the Astra Hotel in Durban in 1962. Kerzner opened Umhlanga, a village north of Durban, in South Africa, where he named the Beverly Hills Hotel after the success of the previous one.

Kerzner built the 450-room Elangeni Hotel (now renamed Southern Sun Elangeni & Maharani), overlooking Durban's beachfront and beginning the Southern Sun Hotels chain in 1969, which operated more than 7,000 rooms in Beverly Hills. Kerzner opened his first hotel outside of South Africa on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, which he named Le Saint Géran.

Kerzner's 1979 Sun City was Africa's most innovative resort project. Over a ten-year period, he built four hotels, a man-made lake, two Gary Player designed championship golf courses, and an entertainment center with an indoor 6,000-seat multi-purpose arena for many celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Queen and Shirley Bassey. Bob Arum's arena had also hosted several World Championship fights. A group of rock musicians titled themselves Artists United Against Apartheid released Sun City, a Kerzner's Sun City, South African resort, in 1985.

Kerzner was asked by new President Nelson Mandela in 1994 to host the VIP function at the Presidential Inauguration, which attracted over a thousand people, including many of the world's top executives and heads of state.

Kerzner opened the hugely profitable Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, in the United States, in 1996, and launched the second phase of the project, which included a 1,200-room hotel in 2000, through a joint venture with the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, Trading Cove Associates. TCA's ownership of the resort resigned in 2002, but Kerzner's firm received a 5% share on the overall sales earned by Mohegan Sun until 2014. The hotel is one of the country's biggest gambling and entertainment complexes.

He became involved in international hotel, leisure, and gambling resorts as a result of the Sun City golf course's success (ranked number one in South Africa), most notably for his work as the architect behind the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Kerzner made his first big purchase outside of Africa in late 1994 when purchasing the Paradise Island Resort in The Bahamas. At the time, this 1,150-room resort was in bankruptcy. Kerzner began a massive renovation and expansion program that transformed Paradise Island into a 2,300-room resort with one of the world's largest man-made marine habitats and the Caribbean's biggest casino.

Kerzner founded One&Only Resorts in 2002, which now operates eight properties in The Bahamas, Mexico, Mauritius, The Maldives, South Africa, Dubai, and Hayman Island. The company's new projects for China, Montenegro, and Saudi Arabia are also planned.

Kerzner built two new hotels on Atlantis, Paradise Island, in early 2007, including The Cove and The Reef, which added 1,100 new rooms to the hotel. The development, spearheaded by Alan Leibman, featured 21 retail stores and new restaurants by celebrity chefs Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Nobu Matsuhisa, and Bobby Flay. Kerzner extended the Atlantis brand internationally with the opening of Atlantis The Palm, a 1,500-room, water-themed resort, on Dubai's southern coast in late-September 2008, a multibillion-dollar leisure and residential development. Kerzner unveiled the "Mazagan Beach Resort," a luxury hotel in El Jadida, Morocco, in September 2009.

Kerzner revealed in October 2013 that he and Fosun International were constructing a new Atlantis hotel in Sanya, Hainan Island, China. Like the other Atlantis hotels, the 62-hectare resort has 1,300 rooms and a water park. According to reports, the entire program will cost $1.63 billion.

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